File:Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama (1911) (14579935748).jpg

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Title: Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Birmingham, Ala. Chamber of commerce. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Birmingham, Ala.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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bestmarkets in theSouth for all soilproducts, and thesoils are so weladapted to truckand other s u b -sistence crops thatmany times thearea now devotedto their productioncould be profitablyutilized. Although thesoil will produceall the standardforage crops, the dairy interest arenot extensively developed. Thefarmer keeps one or two cows forfamily use. Near Birminghamnumerous small dairies of six totwelve cows supply milk for city use.The dairies are frequently examinedby a sanitary inspector and the milkis of good quality and meets a readysale at 25 cents a gallon wholesale or10 cents a quart retail the year round. Soils The great diversity of the soils ofJefferson County, with their accom-panying variations of elevation, slope,drainage, etc., adapting them to aconsiderable range of agricultural use,results largely from their formationfrom these rocks of widely varyingtextural and mineralogical character-istics. The resulting soils range in o w p)z X oc M p)o on 2 CO O tJ) S z o >
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their texture from the excessivelystony members of the Dekalb andClarksville series, which contain inmany places from 50 to 75 per centof sandstone and chert fragments,through the light textured Dekalbfine sandy loam, to the heavy Wabashand Conasauga clays. The depth ofthe soil material varies from a fewinches in the rougher portions of thecounty to many feet in the case of theHimtington,_ Decatur and Hagers-town soils. ( In topographic position the soilsrange from the level Huntington siltloam to the mountainous rough,stony land and the knolls and ridgesof the Clarksville stony loam. Asalready stated, the Dekalb series isderived from the Carboniferous rocks,the silty and sandy members occur-ing where the to-pography issmoothest andconditions for theaccumulation of acom parative lydeep, fine-texturedsoil most favorable.Among theseCarboni f e rousrocks are foundirregular knobs,narrow droughtyridges and longtrough-shaped val-leys. The Clarksvilleloam owes itsorigin mainly tothe Fort Pay

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