. Bulletin. Biology -- Ohio; Plants -- Ohio. BOTANICAL SUEVEY—SUGAE GEOVE EEGION 297 Thus many exposed fields are discarded as worn out, wlien the worst trouble apparently is excessive acidity. Third, the slope of most of the land is so great tiuit it is in danger of washing whenever cultivated. Hundreds of acres throughout the area which might have continued as fairly good upland pastures have become hopelessly gullied "bad lands" (fig. 27) because the owner attempted to cultivate them. This state of affairs is generally accepted as irremediable on the supposition that the land is s
. Bulletin. Biology -- Ohio; Plants -- Ohio. BOTANICAL SUEVEY—SUGAE GEOVE EEGION 297 Thus many exposed fields are discarded as worn out, wlien the worst trouble apparently is excessive acidity. Third, the slope of most of the land is so great tiuit it is in danger of washing whenever cultivated. Hundreds of acres throughout the area which might have continued as fairly good upland pastures have become hopelessly gullied "bad lands" (fig. 27) because the owner attempted to cultivate them. This state of affairs is generally accepted as irremediable on the supposition that the land is so poor that early exhaustion is inevitable. Long observation of the deterioration of this land, however, has con- PSi " ^. Fig. 27. A Badly Washed Upland. Little but Dewberries (Rubiis procumbens) Can Survive the Erosion. vinced the writer that the case is by no means hopeless. While he would not pretend to recommend a remedy on the basis of present knowledge, there is abundant prospect that an experimental study of the situation would develop a system of management which would be i)rofitabh' in the long run to both the land-owner and the community. Tf the conditions described were confined to the Sugar Gfrove area alone there would be little justification for the expenditure of the time and money necessary to determine the best means of meeting the situa- tion. But while such conditions may reach their climax in llic pi-csciil area, they are more or less general over all of llic uiighieialcd i)ortioiis. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ohio Biological Survey. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University
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