12 MANUFACTUEE OF TABLE SIRUPS FROM SUGAR CANE. 



Throughout large areas in Florida and, to a less extent, in Georgia 

 and South Carolina, in low, swampy localities, the soil has become 

 overlaid with vegetable deposits of a humus nature. These vege- 

 table soils are deficient in mineral jjlant foods, but become very 

 fertile when properly drained and fertilized. For a more detailed 

 geological account of the soils of the localities referred to, liulletin 

 No. 83 of the U. S. Geological Survey may be consulted. 



A valuable contril)ution to the study of the soil of Georgia is also 

 found in the Tenth Census liei^ort, vol. 0, on the cotton production 

 of the State of Georgia, by R. 11. Loughridge. This report contains 

 an agricultural map of Georgia, slKJwing the distribution of the 

 various kinds of soils in the State. A similar map for South Caro- 

 lina is found in the Report of the Tenth Census, vol. G, a report on 

 the cotton production of South Carolina, by Harry Hammond. A 

 similar map is also given in the same volume for the State of Florida, 

 being a report on the cotton production of Florida, by Eugene Allen 

 Smith. A study of these maps, with the remarks made thereon, 

 together with the analyses of tlie soils which follow, will give a fair 

 idea of the agricultural ijossibilities of the States mentioned. 



NOTES ON THE SOILS. 



In the table of analyses of soils which follows the localities in 

 which the samj)les were taken are also given. Some additional notes 

 have been furnished in i-egard to some of the samples, which will be 

 of interest. For these notes 1 am indebted to Capt. D. G. Purse, of 

 Savannah. 



Duke Station. Fla.— Samples Nos. 22646-22647. 



The top soil is in the top of the bag and the subsoil in the bottom of bag, with 

 a string in tlie center to keep them sejiarate. The water in this locality is soft, 

 and the land is what is classed as high flat woods, sloping to the north. The field 

 from which this sample was taken consists of abont 40 acres and has been under 

 cultivation for about fifteen or twenty years. No fertilizer was used until this 

 year, when a cheap manure, consisting of rock jihosphate, kainit, and cotton-seed 

 meal, thorouglily mixed together, was employed. Recently a little compost was 

 applied. The crops that have been raised in this field are corn, cotton, and sugar 

 cane. The railroad runs through this field and the cut is from 1 to 5 feet deep, 

 and there is quicksand in it in wet weather. No rocks or stones in land. 



Griffing Station, Fla. — Samples Nos. 22048-22649. 



Prepared in the same manner as samples Nos. 22646-22647. The land is high 

 flat woods, slightly rolling. Sample taken from land sloping north and south, 

 witli ditch between. Wells 8 to 10 feet deep; soft water. This sampk^ of soil is 

 frcim a virgin field, planted a])out two months ago in peaches. The land has l)een 

 plowed but once. Fertilizer has never been used. Land free from rocks and 

 stones. 



Samples Nos. 22650-22651 are from Milejiost ;58 and taken from virgin soil. 



