12 SOILS OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. 



Consequently the occupation of the Norfolk sand as a cotton soil may 

 not be recommended. Winter oats are also sown upon this type to a 

 limited degree in the more southern States. Some attempt at the 

 production of peanuts upon the type has been made in eastern Vir- 

 ginia and in eastern Xorth Carolina, but with rather unsatisfactory 

 results so far as yields are concerned. Only when the type is heavily 

 limed can a satisfactory growth of peanuts be secured. The bright 

 cigarette tobacco is also raised to a considerable extent upon the 

 Norfolk sand in some sections of eastern North Carolina, but the 

 Norfolk fine sand, the Norfolk sandy loam, and Norfolk fine sandy 

 loam are all of them to be preferred for the production of this crop. 

 The shade-grown wrapper tobacco of the Florida-Georgia region 

 may also be grown upon the Norfolk sand, but only to a satisfactory 

 yield when irrigation is practiced. Consequent^ the general farm 

 crops are produced to a limited extent only upon the Norfolk sand, 

 and for this reason considerable areas of the type have remained un- 

 cultivated in all of the regions where the trucking industry has not 

 yet been established. 



Truck crops. By contrast, the Norfolk sand stands out preemi- 

 nently as the trucking soil of the North Atlantic coast region and as 

 a strong competitor of all other types of soil, even in the more south- 

 ern localities where trucking is practiced. A wide variety of vege- 

 table and fruit crops is raised upon the Norfolk sand. It is probable 

 that for the production of early asparagus there is no soil in the 

 North Atlantic coast region which can compete with the Norfolk 

 sand. The well-known localities for asparagus growing on western 

 Long Island, in central New Jersey, eastern Virginia, and even in 

 eastern North Carolina, all produce the earlier crops upon the Nor- 

 folk sand. Even in other localities where asparagus is produced, soil 

 conditions which approach closely to those afforded by the Norfolk 

 sand are usually selected for the cultivation of the crop. The exten- 

 sion of asparagus culture upon the Norfolk sand should be advocated. 



Similarly the Norfolk sand is the chosen watermelon soil of the 

 North Atlantic Coastal Plain. From New Jersey to Georgia the 

 earliest and sweetest melons are produced upon this type. The yields 

 are good and the quality is unsurpassed. The Norfolk sand is second 

 only to the Norfolk fine sand in growing cantaloupes where both 

 soils occur. In all other areas the Norfolk sand is easily first as a 

 cantaloupe soil. The type produces early melons of good quality in 

 all of the North Atlantic trucking regions, and it has also been used 

 for the production of this crop in Florida and in Texas. Those 

 truckers who desire to secure extra early melons usually plant the 

 hills of melons in old tin cans or in berry boxes and Avhen the melons 

 have made some growth under greenhouse conditions or in the hotbed 

 the entire hill is transplanted into the fields without disturbing the 



