SOILS IN THE VICINITY OF BRUNSWICK, GA. 



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plying organic matter and otherwise improving the soil. Good 

 crops of cowpeas and crab grass hay and excellent grazing from vel- 

 vet beans can be secured. Corn, sugar cane, peanuts, and straw- 

 berries would also do quite well after vegetable or legume crops. 



The lower lying, light-colored loamy phase mentioned above is a 

 rather unproductive soil in its present condition. It would require 

 thorough drainage, liming, deep plowing, and the incorporation of 

 large amounts of vegetable matter green crops, turned under, or 

 manure in order to be put in good condition for crops. Forage 

 crops, grass, and corn would do best in this phase. 



The texture of the soil and subsoil of this type is shown by the 

 results of mechanical analyses given in the following table: 



Mechanical analyses of Coxville fine sandy loam. 



AMELIA FINE SAND. 



Of the upland soils the Amelia fine sand is by far the most exten- 

 sive type. It represents the wide stretches of piny-woods land. 

 Frequently the pine, as well as the undergrowth of palmetto, are of 

 a somewhat scrubby growth. Hickory is found here and there over 

 comparatively small areas. Such areas are locally styled "hickory 

 hammock," and are considered more productive than the average 

 of the type, being especially adapted to the pecan and the Scupper- 

 nong grape. 



The Amelia fine sand consists of light-gray to almost white loose, 

 incoherent fine sand, averaging many feet in depth. A brownish 

 feebly cemented hardpan of variable thickness may be encountered 

 anywhere from the surface to a depth of 3 feet, but in the average 

 of the type this stratum is wanting. Under the greater part of this 

 soil the water table lies at depths below 3 feet, although it is often 

 encountered at 20 to 30 inches in areas near water, where the eleva- 

 tion above tide level is not so great. 



Owing to the loose, open character of the soil, rain water rapidly 

 percolates below the reach of plants, and under ordinary seasonal 

 conditions crops suffer for lack of moisture. Very little of the type 

 is under cultivation. The only practical method of handling this 

 soil without irrigation, is to turn under green crops, such as cowpeas 

 and velvet beans, and to make heavy applications of barnyard 



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