Excerpt from Preliminary Report on the Soils and Agricultural Conditions of North Central Wisconsin, 1903 The present very general and brief account of the soils and agricultural conditions of North Central Wisconsin, is pre sented in answer to numerous requests for information con cerning the soils of the northern part of the state. It is the outcome of a geological study of the district,1 rather than a survey of the soils alone by a specialist trained in agricultural science. It is mainly based on a study of the surface forma tions of the district, which occur in considerable variety and include glacial drift formations of different ages, alluvial for mations along the large streams and adjacent to extinct gla ciers, and residual formations due to the weathering in place of the crystalline rocks and the sandstone of the district. Each of the surface formations has a characteristic soil and these are described with respect to area, general character and origin, surface features, groundwater, the forest growth devel oped upon them in the past, and the crops now grown upon them so far as they have been opened to agriculture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.