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soils and of the changes produced by cultivation. The maps showing the agricultural divisions of the state, and showing the relations between the area cultivated in cotton and the total area, were prepared for the Tenth Census, but the survey had the privilege of using the plates. The other illustrations were prepared by the survey. This report deals in some detail with the agricultural divisions of the state, and contains many analyses of soils and marls, made partly by the Census and partly by the geological survey.

In the case of the two reports last named, advantage was taken of opportunities in which work done by the writer for other organizations could be turned to the direct benefit of the survey, thus securing much fuller reports and better illustrations than would have been at all possible with the survey funds alone.

Cost.—The printing of these reports was paid for out of the general printing fund of the state, at a cost of $6,750, and this, added to the $8,000 directly appropriated to the survey for equipment, field work, and all other purposes, gives $14,750 as the total cost of the survey during these ten years; an average of $1,475 per annum.

Before going further it may be well to consider what was accomplished during this decade, to point out the advantages derived from this long period of preliminary work, and to call attention to some of its manifest disadvantages.