Document Type
Full Issue
Publication Date
1-1898
Abstract
The soils of the State [Utah], as found by the Mormon pioneers of 1847, were virgin in the fullest sense of the word. As far as man knows, only a few patches in Southern Utah had ever been cultivated. For untold centuries the atmospheric forces, unhindered by man's intervention, had been allowed to weather and make fit for agricultural purposes the rock fragments that, washed down into the valleys from the mountain ranges, constitute the soils of the State. For a long period, also, long before human tradition begins, there had not been enough water in the Utah valleys to drain through and cause a loss of soluble plant food. In every way, then, the early and present conditions of the land have combined to produce soils of exceptionally great fertility. The only element of plant food that may have diminished under the prevailing conditions, can easily be added to the soil by the application of recent discoveries in agricultural science.
Recommended Citation
Widtsoe, John A., "Bulletin No. 52 - The Chemical Composition of Utah Soils (Cache and Sanpete Counties)" (1898). UAES Bulletins. Paper 18.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/uaes_bulletins/18