16 The Bi'lletin. 



NORFOLK FINE SANDY LOAM. 



This soil consists of a pale yellow or gray fine sandy loam eight to 

 twenty inches deep, overlying a fine yellow sandy loam subsoil grading 

 into a light sandy clay at an average depth of twenty inches. It occurs 

 on level areas and gently rolling uplands and generally has good 

 drainage. 



This is the best cotton soil in Pitt, Edgecombe, Chowan, Craven, 

 Duplin and other counties. 



NORFOLK SANDY LOAM. 



The soil of this type consists of a gray, yellowish gray, or light 

 brown medium to coarse sandy loam, varying in depth from eight to 

 thirty inches and overlies a yellow light sandy clay subsoil. It is gen- 

 erally well drained. This is the best cotton soil in Robeson, Scotland 

 and some other counties. 



PORTSMOL'TH FINE SANDY LOAM. 



The soil is a brown to black, more or less mucky, fine sandy loam 

 carrying, as a rule, a large amount of vegetable matter in an advanced 

 state of decay which gives to it the dark color and open texture. The 

 soil is from twelve to eighteen inches deep. 



The subsoil is a mottled drab, or dark gray, sandy clay, rather heavy 

 and impervious to a depth of thirty to thirty-six inches. It is found 

 in low-lying areas usually in the neighborhood of swamps, sounds, and 

 rivers of the coast country. This soil forms the most important agri- 

 cultural land in n number of the extreme eastern and northeastern • 

 counties. 



FUNDAMENTAL TREATMENT. 



Here, as in the piedmont section, it must be borne in mind that liberal 

 amounts of some cheap and easily obtained organic matter lies at the 

 A^ery foundation of successful cotton growing. 



There are large ai-eas of these types of soil that have been brought 

 to a high state of production but the vast majority of them are sorely 

 in need of humus as a basis of proper and economic fertilization. 



There are a number of practical difficulties in the way of any exten- 

 sive development of the live stock industry on these soils, hence stable 

 manure can not be relied upon as an important source of organic matter 

 in crop production. Happily, however, the use of stable manure does 

 not have to be relied upon for successful cotton culture. In this sec- 

 tion the farmers, many of them at least, have come to know the value of 

 green manure in the improvement and maintenance of the fertility of 

 their soils. 



Such crops as burr clover, crimson clover, soy beans, cowpeas, rye, 

 vetch, etc., have long been known to the fanners of this part of the* 

 State. 



METHODS OF HANDLING GREEN MANURE IN THE COASTAL PLAINS SECTION. 



Burr clover should be one of the leading green manuring crops of this 

 section, since, by proper handling it will reseed itself from year to year, 



