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bordering the streams and Chesapeake Bay. Large crops are grown on 

 these soils which are especially adapted to corn and hay. "Vegetables of 

 all kinds thrive and attain a greater size than those grown in the sandy 

 soils but as late truck does not command good market prices few vegetables 

 are raised on these soils. 



The United States Bureau of Soils has mapped and described the soils 

 of four areas within the Coastal Plain of Virginia that are widely separated, 

 namely, Norfolk," Hanover County,^ Yorktown,'' and Chesterfield County.*^ 

 The numerous soil types represented in the four areas may be considered 

 as typical of the soils in general of the Coastal Plain. The texture of 

 typical samples of the soils and subsoils mapped and described by the 

 Bureau of Soils is shown in the tables of mechanical analyses below. 



Twelve types of soils are differentiated in the Hanover County Survey. 

 Of these, four (Cecil sandy loam, Cecil clay, Cecil sand, and Meadow) 

 belong to the Piedmont portion of the area surveyed, and the remaining 

 eight to the Coastal Plain. 



Areas of different soils. 



Soil 



Cecil sandy loam 



Norfolk sandy loam . . . . 

 Norfolk fine sandy loam. 



Cecil sand 



Meadow 



Cecil clay 



Leonardtown loam 



Swamp 



Wickham sandy loam . . . 



Wickham sand 



Wickham clay loam . . . . 

 Norfolk gravelly loam . . 



Total . 



304,000 



aLapham, J. E. Soil Survey of the Norfolk Area, Virginia. U. S. Dept. of Agl., 

 Bureau of Soils, 1903 (1904), Fifth Report, pp. 233-252. 



bBennett, H. H. and McLendon, W. E. Soil Survey of Hanover County, Virginia. 

 Idem. 1905 (1907), Seventh Eeport, pp. 213-245. 



cBurke, R. T. Avon and Root, A. S. Soil Survey of the Yorktown Area, 

 Virginia. Idem. 1905 (1907), Seventh Report, pp. 247-270. 



dBennett, F., Winston, R. A., Geib, W. J., and Mann, C. W. Soil Survey of 

 Chesterfield County, Virginia. Idem. 1906 (1908), Eighth Report, pp. 195-222. 



