Soil 



The soil is dark, sometimes gray or light chocolate in color. The top soil is of 

 the nature of a sandy loam, warm, buoyant and responsive; The subsoil is a 

 heavy, sandy clay which holds the moisture for the growing crops. Experts say 

 the subsoil possesses rare qualities for plant food. It has been demonstrated that 

 the Boil is susceptible of the highest development by proper culture. 



Drainage 



The drainage as a whole is natural. The gently rolling lands shed the rainfall 

 readily and naturally. The few lower and more level places may be ditched, and 

 it is this reclaimed land which is among the richest in the State. 



Water 



The whole country is blessed with water courses. These streams afford pure, 

 cool and sweet water for both man and beast. Pure pump water is found at 25 

 to GO feet and artesian water at from 300 to 1,000 feet, the artesian wells flowing 

 with a force and pressure surprisingly strong. The rainfall is, as a rule, ample and 

 well distributed. 



Standing Trees, Stumpage and Discarded Tree Trunks Generally Found on These Lands 



Crops 



Indian corn, kaffir corn, milo maize, German millet, Egyptian millet, oats, 

 Lespedeza or Japanese clover, sorghum cane for forage, Sudan grass, Natal grass 

 are the principal grain and hay crops. Lespedeza produces a most luxuriant hay 

 crop and analyzes favorably with alfalfa as a nutritious hay feed. Carpet grass and 

 Bermuda grass are native to the soil and are means through which we build 

 permanent pasture. The lands are also noted for sugar cane. The South is growing 

 diversified crops, but a few acres of cotton makes a ready cash crop. Sugar cam- 

 yields per acre 200 to 500 gallons of the famous sugar cane syrup and sells for 

 fifty cents to one dollar per gallon. Two or three neighbors join in buying a 

 grinding mill and evaporator which may be obtained at minimum cost. The soil 

 makes a very good yield of Irish potatoes and especially sweet potatoes. Peanuts 

 do well, the tops being utilized for hay and the nuts find ready sale in the market. 

 All the fruits do well, with perhaps the exception of apples. The soil is noted for 

 its yields of watermelons and cantaloupes. The country is noted for perhaps the 

 greatest strawberry production section, of equal acreage, in the country'. Pecan 



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