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easily, and for this reason much damage has been done by washing. 
On the whole, the type is a rather strong soil, and were it not for the 
steepness of the slopes and the difficulty of cultivation it would be 
prized much more highly than it is. 
Under the residual shale and sandstone soils another series of soils, 
designated the Meigs series, has been established. It represents a 
Fig. 3. — Scenes representative of the topography of Palmer Township. In the upper 
picture the surface features grade from rolling to hilly, with steep slopes occurring 
here and there. In the lower picture the greater part of the surface grades from 
hilly to steep, with occasional small areas of rolling or plateau-like land near the 
crests of the slopes. Approximately one-half of the entire surface of these farms 
grades from rolling to hilly, and one-third from hilly to steep. 
gradation between Dekalb silt loam and the Upshur clay, or a mix- 
ture of the materials constituting them. 
The farmers' estimates ' of the proportion of their farms repre- 
sented by each of these soil types were as follows : 
