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The equipment of the type with respect to buildings varies consid- 

 erably in the different portions of the sections where the type is 

 developed. In the trucking region not only are the ordinary farm- 

 houses and barns for the storing of produce and for the shelter of the 

 work stock maintained in good condition, but there are also usually 

 packing houses for the accommodation of the workers who are pre- 

 paring the fruit or truck crops for shipment to market. Thus the 

 more intensively farmed portions of the Norfolk sand have ample 

 equipment well suited to the needs of the soil and to the methods of 

 farming which are adopted. In the more southern regions, in the 

 cotton-growing section, the equipment of buildings is usually meager, 

 and in some cases inadequate to the proper operations of those farms 

 which include a large proportion of Norfolk sand. This arises largely 

 from the low yields obtained upon this type in cotton and corn pro- 

 duction and the consequent inability to equip the farms properly for 

 the shelter of the tenant or of the work stock. In general, it may be 

 said that the adequacy of the equipment depends more largel}- upon 

 the class of farming adopted for this type than upon an} 7 other 

 factor. The profits which accrue from intensive farming are most 

 frequently invested in improvements of equipment, particularly of 

 work stock and of tools, to increase the yield and lower the cost of 

 production. 



SUMMARY. 



The Norfolk sand is an extensive type of soil occurring along the 

 Atlantic and Gulf coasts from New Jersey to Texas. 



The type is characterized by a gray or pale-yellow surface sandy 

 soil having a depth of 6 to 8 inches in the majority of cases. This 

 is underlain by a yellow, or slightly reddish-yellow, or, occasionally, 

 orange, sand subsoil, which extends to a depth of 3 feet or more. 



The surface of the Norfolk sand is usually nearly level or else 

 undulating to gently rolling in its surface features. It is well 

 drained, free from swamps, and, in the majority of instances, the 

 character of the soil and the gentle slopes within its area prevent any 

 serious erosion of the type. 



The Norfolk sand, because of its coarse texture and slight reten- 

 tive properties, is unable to maintain a moisture supply sufficient to 

 produce large crops of the cereals and staple fiber crops of the regions 

 within which it occurs. 



By contrast the type, on account of the same properties, is light, 

 loose, easily worked, warm, and early. Therefore, its best use. 

 wherever transportation facilities are adequate, is for the produc- 

 tion of those extra early market-garden and trucking crops which 

 derive their greatest value from being placed upon the market in 

 advance of the crop from any other type of soil. 



