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LIST OF TREES AND LESSER PLANTS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE REGIONS OF THE STATE-Prepared by Dr. Charles Mohr, of
Mobile.
I.-LOWER PINE REGION, or COAST PINE BELT, including....
Maritime Plain, with Saline Marshes, etc....
Open, Grassy River Swamps and Wooded Alluvial Bottoms.
Low, Flat Pine Barrens, or Pine Meadows.....
The Evergreen Glades of the Pine Hummock Lands and Wooded Bottoms, with open swamps bordering on them..
The Rolling Pine Lands.
II. THE REGION OF MIXED TREE GROWTH, OR UPPER PINE REGION, including
The Lowlands; beavily wooded River Valleys and Creek Bottoms..
Uplands and Wooded Prairies, or Post Oak Flatwoods
III.—THE CRETACEOUS PLAIN, with the bald and wooded prairies of the Black Belt.
IV. THE MOUNTAIN REGION OF NORTH ALABAMA, to the Valley of the Tennessee River, including the Oak Forests of the
Metamorphic Region
REMARKS ON COTTON PRODUCTION IN ALABAMA:
TABLE III.-Population and Cotton Production in the Agricultural Regions ...
TABLE IV.-Banner Counties in the Several Agricultural Regions
Comparison of the Agricultural Regions
Areas of Greatest Production...........
Population and Cotton Production....
Product per Acre, and its Relation to Population..
Inferences to be drawn from these Comparisons
FERTILIZERS:
The Use of Fertilizers in Cotton Planting..
Fertilizers naturally occurring in Alabama.
Stimulant Manures
Nutritive Manures
Cretaceous marls
Tertiary marls
TABLE OF ANALYSES OF ALABAMA SOILS AND SUBSOILS
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MAP OF ALABAMA SHOWING IN EACH REGION OF THE STATE THE RELATION OF THE AREA PLANTED IN COTTON AND THE TOTAL
AREA....
DIAGRAMMATIC REPRESENTATIONS OF GEOLOGICAL SECTIONS:
1. Showing the General Relations of the Formations of the State.......
2. Showing Structure of the Coosa Valley, and an outlying Anticlinal Valley..
3. Across the Tennessee Valley in North Alabama
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