Excerpt from Manurial Requirements of the Leonardtown Loam Soil of St. Mary County, MD The Leonardtown loam is the most extensive soil type in St Mary County, Md., and is locally known as the white oak or kettle bottom soil of the upland. Excepting the Norfolk loam, it lies at a higher altitude than any of the soils of the county. The surface is usually gently rolling. Extensive forests of white oak and pitch pine are found largely on this type of soil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.