THE WOODED SWA MI'S. 



349 



No. 1524, from 1.1 miles north of Edenton, Chowan County, N. C, is from Dr. 

 Hoskin's place. It is a subsoil at from 5 to :J0 inches. It contains less than IH 

 per cent of clay, and would therefore he called sand. It is excellent for early 

 truck. 



No. 1522, from the farm of J. (i. Wood, of Edenton, N. C is a subsoil at from 

 8 to 30 inches, and contains about 16 per cent of clay. It is overlaid by a loam 

 sod, but is rather too heavy for truck. It would probably make good cotton land. 



No. 1517 is a subsoil at from 5 to 30 inches, and is from the farm of J. L. Rhems, 

 of Newbern, N. C. The soil is a light sandy loam and well adapted to truck. 



No. 1510 represents the type of earliest truck land on Hackburn & Willett's farm, 

 Newbern, N. C. Its texture is too light for cabbage, bat is excellent for potatoes. 

 Crops ripen from lour to eight days earlier on these lands than on the heavier 

 cabbage lands, and, with proper attention, two weeks earlier than at Norfolk. 



No. 1514 is also from Hackburn & Willett's farm, and represents the subsoil 

 at from 14 to 30 inches of the cabbage and spinach land. This type of land 

 averages from 200 to 225 barrels of cabbage per acre. 



No. 1515 represents the texture of the subsoil below 3 feet, underlying both the 

 early truck and cabbage lands. 



The subsoils are given here because it is upon their texture that the character 

 of crops is mostly determined. The complete mechanical analyses of all the fore- 

 going samples are found below. 



Table A.— Mechanical analyses of subsoils. 



Xn. 



Locality. 



1599 

 1601 

 1505 



vm 



15T9 



1570 

 1571 

 1520 

 1518 

 1566 

 1540 



1542 



1558 



1531 



152:.' 

 1524 

 1517 

 1511! 

 1514 



1515 



Virginia 



do 



West Norfolk, Va . 

 do 



35th milepoat, North 

 Carolina. 



Camden, N. C 



do.... -..- 



Elizabeth City, N. C 



do 



do 



Chapanoke, N- C, 2 

 miles south. 



Chapanoke. N. C, 1 

 mile south. 



Durant Neck.N. C - 



Hertford, N.C 



Edenton, N.C 



do... 



Newbern, N. C- 



....do 



....do 



Description. 



Ballantine... 



...do_ 



Henry Kirn 

 Wm. Wise ... 



W.M.Baxter-. 



do 



Dr. E. F.Lamb 



do. 



Leigh farm. 

 C.S.Wood.. 

 .T.U.Wood . 

 Dr. Hoskin . 

 J. L. Rhems. 



P.ct. P.ct. 

 0.00 2,67 



Hackburn & Wil 



lett. 

 do -.-- 



0.00 

 0.001 



0.00 

 0.00 



o.ool 



0.00 

 0.00 



II. INI 



0.00 

 0.00 



o.oo 



0.00 

 0.00 

 0.00 



o.oo 



n. (KJ 

 0.00 

 0. 00 



I. 19 



as 



00 Q 



5 '_~ 



■2S 



0. 27 

 1.42 

 (Mil 

 0.00 



2. 46, 

 0.00 

 0.00 



o.ool 



11.00 

 0.00 



P. ct. P. ct. 



25.171 5.12 

 42.12 12.96 

 2:5.271 38.25 

 24. Oil 41.03 

 O.OO! 0.55 



5. 17 



2.28 

 4. 98 



2.0; 



4.94 



1. in 



0,00 7.68 



0.00 



o.ool 



1 13 



o.oo; 



3.91 



n 3ii 



II. (HI 



6.37 



6. 1 1 



4.74 



22. 60 



6.04 



ia 



.in 10.5; 



19. 79 

 3.15 



8.87 

 4.75 

 6.11 

 6.32 



41.77 



0.20 

 68.34 



20. 58 

 36. 18 

 29.03 

 49.63 

 10. 65 



8. 09, 29. 69, 16. 11 



P.ct 



10. 16 



6.03 



7.51 



5.71 



24.11 



33. 53 



46.50 

 44.9' 

 39. 16 

 43.61 

 20.35 



13.05 



38.03 

 9.67 

 27. 82 

 38.71 

 22. 38 

 32. 39 

 22.75 



11.43 



P.ct 

 31.45 



20. 20 

 15. 1 I 

 11.54 

 33,33 



19.69 

 20.54 

 19.20 

 30.04 



25. 73 



36. 78 



6 



P. ct. P. ct. 

 8.88 14.35 

 4. 79 8. 88 

 5.901 7.15 

 7.33 8.40 



11.061 24.72 



7. Ill 10.35 

 5.64 16.82 



5. 88 

 6.27 

 7.27 

 7.43 



18.92; 5.03 



29. 54 

 7.55 



18. 37 



10.27 

 7.03 

 6.24 



30.22 



14.36 



8.17 

 2. 35 



13. 62 

 14.37 

 9.20 

 25.58 



12.37 



22. 15 

 6.47 

 7.79: 15.85 

 4.181 3.40 

 3.16 10 32 

 1.93 2. SO 

 8.95 13.12 



2.53 13.55 



THE WOODED SWAMPS. 



The data for the following discussion wore obtained in the Dismal 

 Swamp proper, although what is said of the great morass will apply 

 with equal force to the soils of other forested swamps in the region. 



