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The Township's Muck — the Soil Survey Pull Stands Unperformed

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Banked record, Farms & Crops lk-frm-muck-mint; settler Web Soil Survey, unreached November 2026

County muck is proved and township muck is not: that is the banked article's honest line, and this section reports that the instrument which could move the line was not run. What stands banked: the SSURGO muck examples sit in Portage, Olive and Greene townships, none in Union; the muck-farm economy of Farmers' Bulletin 761 (1916) — some 3,750,000 acres of swamp and muck land across Indiana and Michigan, 140 muck farms, four types from celery and onion ground to peppermint and grain-and-stock — is county-and-region strength; and Mishawaka's peppermint crown, carried in the Congressional Record of 30 July 2008, is a neighbouring city's. What was not done: no Web Soil Survey pull for Union Township was performed, and no published soil-survey sheet for the township was read, so the township's muck extent — and with it the standing of its truck crops, onions, celery and cucumbers never named for Union Township in any carrier — remains unproved in either direction. The settler is named and stands current: a Web Soil Survey pull for Union Township and the published soil-survey sheets, read entire. This article prints no township soil fact, because none was earned.

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Source: The Township's Muck — the Soil Survey Pull Stands Unperformed, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/farms-crops/township-s-muck-the-soil-survey-pull-stands-unperformed/