The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-02-25
ROBSON SOIL SURVEY.

Will Give Complete Informal
ton About the County-Sur-
vey Secured by Congressman
Goodwin.
of The Robesonian.
The United States Department
of Agriculture. Bureau Of Soils,
completed a soil survey of Robe
son county last July. The field
sheets covering the county have
been assembled into one large
sheet giving a complete map of
the county. The cost of the
soil survey of Robson county
was, in round numbers, $4,000.
Of this amount the State paid
81, 900. The cost now of litho-
graphing the map and printing
the report will be about 81, 200,
making a total of over IS, 900 for
Robson county. The co-opera-
ton between the Bureau Of Soils
and DIR. B. w. Kilgore, State
Chemist and Director of the
State Experiment Farms, has
beed mutually satisfactory.
The maps and reports of the
soil survey of Robson county
will probably be ready for free
distribution by Congressman
Goodwin is about four or five
months. Several thousand cop
les of this will be given to the
people of the county. If the
county had made this map for
the people it would have cost
them $4,000 or SO, 900 per copy.
The work Of this county was
under the direction of Mr.. W. E.
Hearn, who has had charge Of
the work in North Carolina for
the past three years. The maps
show all the public roads, many
of the private roads, the rail
roads, streams, sWamps, mill
ponds. houses, churches, school
houses, postofices, towns, and
township boundary lines, and
the map will be published on a
scale of one inch to a mile, SO
that any one can readily under
stand it and find the distance
from one place to another in
the county by simply measuring
2 the map.
I On this accurate base mar
q have been shown ten different
= grades or types of soils and the
areas of each accurately outlined
3 These different types will be
+ represented by different colors
so that a person can see just the
kind of soil there is in any par
of the county without making g.:
> visit over the county. All thu
: areas of swamp have been &C
e curately outlined. Some of thes'
n areas would be the most produc
! tive soil in the county if the.
> were sufficiently drained. A com
= plete report describing thes
:, types will accompany the map
IS In addition to the description O
= soil types there will be a chap
n ter on the location, topography
= drainage, transportation facili
II ties, markets, etc., in Robesol
d county. There will be anothe
= full chapter on agriculture, trac
d ing it's history from the tim
- the county was first settled un
- til now. In this chapter will b
IL given crops grown and yields
If values of the land, methods o
s: farming, condition of settlement
an and everything else bearing O
the agriculture of the county
This work is the basis for a
future investigations of the soils
1t will show the soils which ar
n best adapted to cotton, tobacco
ne truck crops, and any new CROP
ne which might proftably be intr'
10 duced. It will lead to the sele,
'e ton of the variety of each {
these crops which is best an
particularly suited to each tyr
Ut of soil. This work will be fc
to lowed up by the State Depar
on ment of Agriculture, which w
ut study the different types Of sc
90 and ascertain what brand
q, brands of fertilizers will gi,
ny the largest increases in yields
Oh each of these soils, and in tn
ok way it will eventually save Il
" farmers and land owners
w. Robson county several thousal
'o' dollars annually for their ferti
M ger bills. These maps and +
tes ports will be sent over differe
parts of the United States al
will, in a large measure, adve
be tise the lands of Robson coun
on and will be a guiding light
- prospective settlers.
u Congressman Goodwin has n
hg only given support to soil surv
vas work but he has been worki
of earnestly for anything tt
ana would be of value in this d
.ns trict and to his constituent
sil0 especially the farming class a
Sc land owners. The Farmers
stitute work carried on last su
mer was highly appreciated
till his people and considerable be-
asst fit was derived from it. He
80 made request for soil surveys
u other counties in his district.
I'M Washington, D. c., Feb.
est, 1909.
de- HaSS z Ha nSon q farr,nor