. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. JVo so/7 treatment <j/Ven Brushed in 4-0 rods. Legend A = Con/ferous Trees Z< Pig. 4.—Chart of the seeding experiment at Bear Creek Station, altitude 4,800 feet. top, and 5 pounds Kentucky blue grass. One-half of the area was brushed in and the remaining 2 acres were left untreated. The area selected, as shown in figure 4, is a strip 16 rods wide by 40 rods long, in the bottom of the Bear Creek Canyon, lying within a few rods of the stream. The elevation of Bear Creek at this point is about 4,800 feet. Ridges ris
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. JVo so/7 treatment <j/Ven Brushed in 4-0 rods. Legend A = Con/ferous Trees Z< Pig. 4.—Chart of the seeding experiment at Bear Creek Station, altitude 4,800 feet. top, and 5 pounds Kentucky blue grass. One-half of the area was brushed in and the remaining 2 acres were left untreated. The area selected, as shown in figure 4, is a strip 16 rods wide by 40 rods long, in the bottom of the Bear Creek Canyon, lying within a few rods of the stream. The elevation of Bear Creek at this point is about 4,800 feet. Ridges rise abruptly on both sides to a height of 2,000 feet above the creek. The seeded area is smooth and practically level. The soil is a deep, black, slightly clayey loam of alluvial character. The minimum water contained in the soil taken at a depth of 8 inches during the summers of 1908, 1909, and 1910 was 16 per cent. The land originally bore a heavy stand of timber, of which western larch, Engelmann spruce, yellow pine,. 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 United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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