Document Type
Circular
Publication Date
5-1955
Department
Agricultural Economics Department
Circular Number
116
Keywords
progress report, crop variety trials, forages, farm engineering, poultry, beef, grazing
Description
South Dakota, west of the Missouri River, may be divided into three distinct regions. The most northerly of these is a series of benches, plateaus, and isolated buttes underlain by both sandstone and shale. These soils range from sandy loams to clays but are predominantly loamy. The most southerly region is a series of plateaus and broad benches underlain by silty, sandy, and clayey strata. These soils range from very sandy on the Nebraska border to silty and clayey at the southern tributaries of the White River. Between the two just described lies the third region. This is the region of the State represented by the Cottonwood Range Field Station. It is called the Pierre hills and is underlain by shaly strata which weather to dark clayey soils that are sticky when wet. These shaly strata do not form benches and plateaus like the younger strata to the north and south. Rather, they are reduced by weathering to a series of smooth grassy hills and ridges with convex tops. In the central region the major rivers, and the other two as well, Bow east. Stream valleys are entrenched several hundred feet and the rivers in them pursue meandering courses. Cottonwood trees flourish in the stream channels. (See more in text)
Pages
68
Format
application/pdf
Type
text
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota State State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Agricultural Experiment Station
Recommended Citation
Whetzal, F.; Westin, F. C.; Buntley, G. J.; and Barge, B. L., "A Progress Report: Agricultural Research at the Range Field Station, South Dakota State College Experiment Station, Cottonwood, S.D." (1955). Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars. 113.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_circ/113