Some aspects of soil classification.

Abstract

The classification of soils must necessarily be of very considerable interest to the forester if only for the reason that he is so often expected to make some practical use, not only of an assortment of crumbs, but also of the more or less indigestible bones that may, so to speak, fall from the agriculturist's table. Numerous as are the soil problems of ordinary farming, it is in cases where the farmer is fully convinced that these problems are economically insurmountable that you are apt most frequently to find land on offer to the forester. The latter, we will admit, has at his disposal a crop capable of giving an economic return on many classes of soil which may reasonably be considered unsuited for normal farming use. It is the character of the soil which ultimately decides whether a particular district be economically plantable, just as it is the character of the soil which chiefly decides the tree species which will likely give the most profitable return...