2.818 98. 792 1.550 Post, black, and black-jack, oaks, per- 90. 545 0. 092 0.024 0.025 0.259 0.145 3.050 1. 9100. 174 0.033 88. 795 0.111 0.025 0. 189 0.392 0.495 3. 185 1.5450. 118 0.050 4.571 99.476 2.100 Red and white oaks, dogwood, hickory, 85. 811 0. 208 0. 065 0.215 0.426 0. 265 4. 300 3. 8600. 128 0.055 Analyses of soils and subsoils (air-dried) made by Dr. Robert Peter-Continued. Locality. County. Vegetation. Independence. Hickory, oaks, etc Post and white oaks, hickory, dogwood, 81. 720 0. 405 0.111 and persimmon. 85. 080 0. 372 0. 105 88.920 0.205 91. 845 0. 130 0.015 0.067 0.579 0.320 2.160 2. 325 0. 193 0. 022 Black, white, red, and water oaks, black 84. 945 0.137 0. 054 0.418 0.313 0.445 2.110 2. 090 0. 131 0. 050 and sweet gums. 90. 845 0. 170 0. 054 0.109 0.347 0.470 2.460 3. 140 0. 084 0. 042 92. 695 0. 164 0.007 0.336 0. 184 0. 195 1.320 1. 140 0. 078 0. 042 89. 445 0. 150'0. 057 0.1120. 364 0.470 2.410 3. 4770. 151 0. 033 0.283 0.493 0.180 4. 270 5. 440 0. 239 0. 045 0. 137 0.561 0. 130 4.485 4. 790 0. 193 0. 042] 0.137 0.292 0.345 1.985 3. 325 0. 162 0. 045 190. 130 0. 207 0.004 0.095 0. 280 0. 295 2.310 2. 315 0. 145 0. 012 305 Yellowish-brown subsoil. .do ..do nuts. Rosinwood and grass do From near waters of Big creek ...do ...do ....... oaks. ...do 76. 295 0. 693 0. 583, 0.364 0.815 0.295 3.810 5. 0150. 147,0. 084 A few scrub hickories, oaks, and wal- 79. 420 0. 686 0.061 0.380 0.341 0.220 4. 110 5. 1650. 1610. C84 77. 345 0.700 0. 101 0. 243 0.863 0.370 5.360 7. 240 0. 165 0. 059 Fulton. ....do White oak and hickory A few miles west of Powhatan ...do Lawrence. ....do 1 mile from Calico Izard Black oak, hickory, and pine .do ....do 88. 070 0. 232 0.031 0.224 0.383 0.320 1.960 1. 815 0. 162 0. 050 91. 345 0.265 0.016 0.039 0.371 0.270 2.860 3. 265 0. 078 0. 050 Black-jack and post oaks and small 92. 820 0. 154 0.064 0.100 0. 337 0.120 0. 576 2. 1150. 095 0.028 ⚫ hickory. 91.270 0.328 0. 115 0. 109 0. 245 5.890 0.078 0. 033 91. 845 0. 156 0.055 0.039 0. 285 0.070 1. 290 2. 065 0. 104 0. 024 93. 880 0. 1980. 019 0. 056 0. 296 0.145 1.165 2. 290 0. 095 0. 011 5. 793 99.040 2.475 1.794 100. 353 1.100 2.979 99. 388 1.325 AGRICULTURAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE COUNTIES OF ARKANSAS. The counties are grouped under the several agricultural regions, and each is described as a whole under that to which it predominantly belongs, its name alone being given with an asterisk (*) in the county list of any other region which may include a minor part of its area, a reference also being made to that region in which it is described. The statistical matter given at the head of each county description is derived from the Tenth Census reports; and there are also added abstracts from such answers to schedules of questions as have been received from correspondents in the 38 counties heard from. The county descriptions, because of the large number of counties in the state, are necessarily short; and in order to keep the report within properly prescribed limits only general descriptions are given. MISSISSIPPI ALLUVIAL REGION. (Includes parts of Chicot, Besha, Phillips,* Lee,* Saint Francis,* Cross,* Poinsett,* Craighead,* Greene,* and Clay,* and the whole of Crittenden and Mississippi counties.) CHICOT. Population: 10,117.-White, 1,563; colored, 8,554. Area: 840 square miles.-Woodland, all; yellow-loam region, 205 square miles; alluvial, 635 square miles. Tilled lands: 38,658 acres.-Area planted in cotton, 26,941 acres; in corn, 7,309 aeres; in oats, 80 acres. Cotton production: 25,338 bales; average cotton product per acre, 0.94 bale, 1,410 pounds seed-cotton, or 470 pounds cotton lint. Chicot county is included almost entirely within the low and level alluvial lands of the Mississippi river, which forms its eastern boundary, and those of bayous Maçon, Bouff, and Bartholomew (on the north) and Big Bayou. These lands comprise the front or higher lands along the borders of the river and the large bayous, the back-lands. away from the streams, cypress swamps, and canebrakes, and some high ridge or sandy pine uplands on the south and north, but not in the middle of the county. The soil of the front-lands is a fine sandy loam, quite deep, and well-timbered with cottonwood, gum, walnut, etc. The lands of the river are celebrated for their productiveness, the yield being about two bales of cotton per acre. The back-lands have a stiff clayey buckshot soil, and are not as productive as those of the front-lands. This land is said to suffer from drought and to produce best in a tolerably wet summer. Cypress brakes occur frequently throughout their extent. The tilled lands comprise 7.2 per cent. of the county area, and of these 69.7 per cent. are devoted to the culture of cotton. The averages per square mile are 46 acres of tilled lands and 32.1 of cotton, the county ranking as fourteenth in the latter regard. In cotton yield per acre it is first in the state and second in the United States. ABSTRACT OF THE REPORT OF DANIEL B. BRAWNER, LUNA LANDING. The lowlands comprise the first and second bottom of Bayou Maçon, and the front-land, back-land, and cypress swamps of the Mississippi river. The uplands consist of the level table-lands drained by the Mississippi river, Chicot lake, and bayou Maçon. The soils cultivated in cotton are the black sandy soil of the river bottom, the clay loam of bayou Maçon, and their intermixtures. The most important of these is the black sandy land of the river bottom, covering about two-thirds of the surface of the county, and extending in the direction of the river about 50 miles. Almost every variety of timber can be found in this county. The soil is light, and is from 4 to 5 feet in depth. Sand is found at 6 feet. The land is easily cultivated in dry seasons, is early and well drained, and is best adapted to cotton and corn, which are the only crops raised in this county. About nine-tenths of the cultivated area is devoted to cotton, which grows to a height of about 5 feet, but inclines to run to weed on all lands of the county in wet seasons, no remedy as yet having been found to restrain it. 49 |