18 SOILS OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. 



General farm crops are not extensively grown upon the Porters 

 black loam, although oats and grasses are successfully produced. 



There are extensive areas of the Porters black loam suitable for 

 apple orcharding which, because of lack of transportation or remote- 

 ness from market, have not yet been occupied. In consequence, there 

 still remain excellent opportunities for bringing into cultivation con- 

 siderable areas of the Porters black loam when transportation facili- 

 ties are provided, and when the peculiar adaptation of this type to 

 apple orcharding is understood in the more southern locations where 

 it occurs. 



These two types of soil constitute the most extensive soils of the 

 higher mountain regions of the eastern Appalachians, and they pos- 

 sess the greatest range in altitude and the most rugged topography 

 of any of the soil types occupied for agricultural purposes east of 

 the Rocky Mountains. 



Approved : 



JAMES WILSON, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26, 1911. 



