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[[underlined]]Cut 24.[[/underlined]]
S. of the 1/2 [[sec.]] corner W. of White's house along [[road]] there is a low bank - 2-4 ft - shows gray loess with iron tubes, nodules, and a few fossils.
This is not high, its about 1305 at base.
This blue loess runs along for some distance and lower down the lobular "chocolate" or rather a red [[hardpan?]] (ferretto) shows & below it typical light Kansan.
On N. side of sec. 36, (ne 1/4) there is a small hill with Kansan [[exposure]].
Mr. White's NE. 40A. alfalfa field is 5 yrs. old and the one pasture (30 A.) is 12 yrs. old.
He is pasturing this 30 A., [[Gets?]] it grow up well so that young
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indigestible stuff is not eaten rapidly, & has [[turned?]] 100 head of Aberdeen Angus cattle. He says it works fine.
Has been in 3 weeks & a crop 2 tons to A. has been cut.
The 40 A. tract has been cut twice, 5 tons to A. & the 3c was beginning to blossom
[[underline]]Cut 25[[/underline]] Just E. of school house on N. line of 36 the hill shows Kansan away up.
There is very little loess.
The bluffs along this part are rather steep & high on E. side & show groves well up, in pockets.
Along W. side of sec. 36, at about middle, Kansan shows along base of bluff - limey - with boulders _. shows in barn yard & on road at foot of hill. Marked on plat.
[[underline]]Cut 26[[/underline]] On slope up from Bartlett [[cr ? ]]
(Faces N)Kansan shows well up. Yellow loess on top.
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