Excerpt from Experiments in the Production of Crops on Alkali Land on the Huntley Reclamation Project, Montana The Surface soil on this tract is a very heavy impervious clay con taining alkali salts in amounts that are not tolerated by most crop plants. The physical character of the soil is such as to prevent natural leaching, and there has been an accumulation of the Salts in the surface soil. Underlying the surface soil, at depths varying from 5 to 8 feet, is a stratum of sand and gravel. About the Publisher Forgotten ...
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Excerpt from Experiments in the Production of Crops on Alkali Land on the Huntley Reclamation Project, Montana The Surface soil on this tract is a very heavy impervious clay con taining alkali salts in amounts that are not tolerated by most crop plants. The physical character of the soil is such as to prevent natural leaching, and there has been an accumulation of the Salts in the surface soil. Underlying the surface soil, at depths varying from 5 to 8 feet, is a stratum of sand and gravel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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