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SOIL SURVEY OF BUFFALO COUNTY. 
The forest growth consists of white oak, red oak, hickory, and 
a few birch and elm trees. The best of the timber has been re¬ 
moved and the remainder serves to protect the slopes from wash¬ 
ing. 
The inclusion of Rough stony land in farms reduces the value 
of better land and it renders the fields and farms on the ridges 
less accessible. It makes hauling to market difficult, as many of 
the roads from the valleys to the upland cross steep strips of 
this class of land. 
THE GENESEE SOILS. 
This series of soils includes all material deposited in the pres¬ 
ent flood plains of the Mississippi and Chippewa Rivers which 
border the county on the west and north, and of the lower part 
of Buffalo River in the center of the county. Owing to the mixed 
nature of the material and difficulty in seeing much of it, the 
separation of types on the floodplains is not done in a strictly de¬ 
tailed manner, the main object being to separate the sandy soils 
from the heavier ones. 
GENESEE FINE SANDY LOAM 
This type includes all the sandy material of the floodplains 
above mentioned. Much of the soil which is a fine sandy loam 
consists of 6 to 10 inches of compact dark brown fine sandy loam 
on yellowish brown fine sandy loam or fine sand. Layers of 
medium or coarse sand often occur in the subsoil at varying 
depths. Considerable variations in the texture of this type 
occur. Chocolate brown fine sandy loam or loam soil often bor¬ 
ders the banks of the sloughs or sand knolls and ridges occur 
with intervening swales and low spots of heavier loam or silt 
loam soil on sand. This type of soil follows the channels of the 
Chippewa and Mississippi Rivers and the sloughs connected with 
them all along the north and west sides of the county, occupying 
a considerable portion of the 32,000 acres of flood plain land in 
the county. Some of thte islands in the Mississippi River are 
mere banks or flats of sand built up by the river, others are 
sandy around the edges with heavier soil in the interior. Con¬ 
siderable amounts of the more sandy phase are included also 
