—Lancaster. Farming. Saturday. August 13, 1960
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New Book Surveys
County Soil
Twenty one years of re
search, study, and planning
by scientists from the United
States Department of Agri
culture and the Pennsylvania
State University have gone
into a new book surveying
the soils of Lancaster Coun
ty.
The book, just recently
published, contains 76 doub
le page areial photographs
of the county showing farm
buildings, roads, streams,
fields and woodlands. .
By locating his farm on
the maps, the farmer can
learn the type of soil and
subsoil, the slope or grade,
the amount of erosion in the
area, and the best manage
ment methods for controlling
erosion.
In plotting the soil types,
the scientists walked over
the entire county, digging
holes into the soil and sub
soil, taking measurements of
slope and crop growth over
the 21 year period.
There are 12 soil types in
the county with the residual
limestone soils the most pre
valent. The scientists call
this soil type the Duffield-
Hagerstown Association.
Included in the book is in
formation on other phases of
the agriculture of the county,
based on the latest survey
reports. The book reports
that about 82 percent of the
county was in farmland in
1954. There were 7,951 farms
with an average of 62.7 acres
in the same year.
General type farms led the
parade with 1,915 in this
category. Dairying was the
most numerous of the spec
ialized farms claiming 1,570
of the total and leading
Poultry farms which had a
total of 1,170. Of the gener
al farms, only 65 depended
primarily on crops while 680
depended primarily on live
stock products the latest fig-'
ures show.
Com showed up as the
most important crop in the
county With 102,876 acres
planted Most of the crop
was” used m the livestock
feeding programs in the
county.
As might be expected, to
bacco proved to be one of
the Important crops with
26,000 acres devoted to the
production of sigar leaf. The
book reports that Pennsyl
vania broadleaf type tobac
co was developed largely
through experiments in the
Garden Spot County.
The book is designed to
help farmers in planning the
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bills and receipts, manufac
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