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BULLETIN 141, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
thousands of acres of this excellent soil that await drainage and 
occupation. 
CROP USES AND ADAPTATIONS. 
A general review of the crop adaptations of the different soils of 
the Clyde series may be presented in tabular form. The materials 
from which this tabulation is compiled comprise the results obtained 
in 26 different scil surveys, located in 6 different States, and cover- 
ing an aggregate area of more than a million and a quarter acres of 
the different soils. Because of the widespread distribution of the 
areas and of the very different conditions of drainage and utilization 
which are prevalent in these different areas, the tabulation is decid- 
edly generalized, and may be taken to comprehend the chief crop 
adaptations of each soil type, with local differences of climate and 
of drainage, either natural or artificial, eliminated, or at least sub- 
ordinated to a rank of minor importance. The instances considered 
also comprehend considerable variations in market and transporta- 
tion facilities, so that the general summary possesses the widest pos- 
sible application. 
This table is to be understood to refer only to the agricultural 
conditions as they exist at present in the region chiefly occupied by 
the soils of this series. The table makes no prediction as to ultimate 
crop adaptations when the soils of this series have become more gen- 
erally and more thoroughly drained, or when a larger number of 
different crops has been tried out and the unsuited crops discarded 
for those which give the best economic results. 
Tabular summary of the crop adaptations of soils of the Clyde series. 
Soil type. 
Specific adaptations. 
Of prime importance. Of moderate importance. 
May be grown. 
Sand group: 
Clyde sand . 
Clyde gravelly sand . 
Clyde fine sand 
Sandy loam group : 
Clyde sandy loam. . 
Clyde stony sandy 
loam. 
Clyde fine sandy 
loam. 
Loam group: 
Clyde loam 
Clyde silt loam . 
Clay group: 
Clyde silty clay 
loam. 
Clyde clay loam 
Clyde clay. 
Corn, oats, hav, beans. 
Corn, oats, hay, sugar 
beets, beans" 
Corn, oats, hay, sugar 
beets. 
Corn, hay, sugar beets. 
Corn, oats, hay, blue- 
grass pasture. 
Corn, hay, suear beets, 
bluegrass pasture. 
Rye, beans, early Irish 
potatoes, clover. 
Rye, buckwheat, clover. . . 
Rye, Irish potatoes, clover. 
Corn, oats, timothy and 
clover, beans. 
Corn, oats, timothy and 
clover, beans. 
Wheat, sugar beets 
Wheat, rye, barley, buck- 
wheat. 
Pasturage, in poorly drain- 
ed areas. 
Oats, barley, cabbage. 
Cabbage, onions 
Wheat, oats 
Corn, oats, mixed hay. 
Corn, oats. 
Corn, mixed hay. 
Sugar beets, tomatoes, po- 
tatoes,-alfalfa. 
Sugar beets, wheat, oats, 
apples. 
;e, onions, chicorv. 
apples, 
Cabbage, alfalfa, 
pears, quinces. 
Late potatoes, cauliflower. 
Late potatoes (small area 
cleared and drained). 
Late potatoes, alfalfa on 
tile-drained land. 
