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| | Soil Article, Soil Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The organic part of soils is derived chiefly from the remainsof vegetables and animals which have lived and died in and upon the soil, which have been spread over it by rivers and rains, orwhich have been added by the industry of man for the purposes of increased fertility. |
 | | A clayey soil, though distinguished by the color which it bears, namely fl, white, yellow and red, differs from all othersoils, being tough, wet, and cold, and consequently requiring a good deal of labor from the husbandman before it can besufficiently pulverized, or placed in a state for bearing artificial crops of corn or grass. |
 | | All clayey soils require great industry and care, as well as a considerable portion of knowledge in dressing ormanagement to keep them in good condition; yet when their natural toughness is got the better of, they always yield the heaviestand most abundant crops. |
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