Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Work of the Bureau of Soils
As an illustration Of the monetary value Of the Bureau's work in establishing the relation between soils and crops, it may be stated that the soils of the Connecticut Valley, which the Bureau declared were adapted to the growing of a superior wrapper tobacco, increased in, value more than threefold. The successful termination of the Bureau's experiments in growing Cuban filler tobacco will double or treble the price of certain soil types in our Southern States. Other instances Of the increase of land values through the discovery Of the adaptation of certain soils to special crops may be cited. The trucking soils of the Atlantic seaboard have increased of late years from a nominal value of $5 an acre to $200 or more an acre. The rice lands of Louisiana have increased in value from $5 to $50 an acre. The Florida soils, adapted to the growing of pineapples, have risen in value from practically nothing to over $500 an acre.
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