8 SOILS OP THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. 



titles of stable manure from cities located upon the same bodies of 

 water. Since he is largely deprived of a home supply of organic 

 manure from the nature of his farming operations and must depend 

 upon purchased manures and fertilizers for use in his trucking busi- 

 ness, this becomes of decided advantage wherever the opportunity 

 exists. 



The limitations upon special crop production, then, are limitations 

 of adaptation of soil to crop, limitations of transportation facility, 

 both to and from the fields, and limitations of favorable or adverse 

 local climatic conditions. The special crop adaptations will be dis- 

 cussed at greater length in a succeeding section. 



EXTENT OF OCCUPATION. 



Since the Norfolk fine sand has been recognized in nearly all locali- 

 ties as a soil less favorable than many others for the production of 

 general farm crops, it has not been cleared and cultivated to nearly 

 the extent of areas of the Norfolk sandy loam or fine sandy loam or 

 those of the Orangeburg sandy loam and fine sandy loam occurring 

 in the same locations. In fact, except, under special conditions, a 

 large proportion of the Norfolk fine sand has been left in the original 

 growth of longleaf or loblolly pine, while areas which have once 

 been cleared of this growth have been allowed to reseed to the loblolly 

 pine or other species of timber. 



However, where transportation to northern markets has been 

 especially good, the areas of the Norfolk fine sand near to shipping 

 points have been in great demand as the basis for the production of 

 special trucking crops. Thus in eastern Virginia, in many portions 

 of eastern North Carolina, and throughout the immediate coast sec- 

 tion of South Carolina and Georgia, there have been established 

 important trucking areas which have grown to be great shipping 

 points for southern vegetables. Within easy hauling distance of all 

 such transportation points, the Norfolk fine sand has been in such 

 demand that practically every acre of it has been cleared and appro- 

 priated to the uses of the market gardener and trucker. While the 

 acreage value of this type of soil, remote from transportation, and 

 where general farm crops only may be produced, usually ranges from 

 $5 or $6 an acre to not more than $20 an acre, in the developed truck 

 sections the value of the same type of soil for special purposes rises 

 to $150 or even $250 an acre, depending largely upon the amount of 

 this class of land available in the locality within easy hauling dis- 

 tance of the shipping point. In fact the type forms an excellent 

 example of an extensive soil held in low esteem for general farming 

 purposes, but, by contrast, held in high esteem for special uses where 

 these are possible. 



