4 SOILS IN THE VICINITY OF BKUNSWICK, GA. 



in being protected from overflows. Under present methods of 

 management only moderate yields of corn, sugar cane, and forage 

 are made, and the average is quite limited. Crab-grass, Bermuda, and 

 "goose grass" flourish on most of the upland types. 



A variety of vegetables are being grown quite successfully both 

 in the uplands and on the diked rice fields. Sweet potatoes, Irish 

 potatoes, beans, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, celery, peppers, okra, 

 and a number of other crops have given excellent results. Certain 

 types of the river-bottom lands are especially adapted to a variety 

 of vegetables, while in the uplands there is a considerable area of 

 good truck as well as good general farm land needing only to 

 be handled properly in order to give good yields. With proper 

 effort there is no reason why there should not be built up diversified 

 and extensive agricultural interests, particularly in trucking, as 

 with proper soil selection and management there should be no trouble 

 in growing the crops. 



VEGETABLES. 



A number of soils encountered in this preliminary survey are 

 adapted to celery, lettuce, and other vegetables. These are quite 

 similar in composition to the sand and muck celery lands of the 

 Sanford (Fla.) district, and handled along the same general lines as 

 pursued in this highly successful trucking section, there is no reason 

 why these crops should not be grown successfully around Bruns- 

 wick. Soils suited to this crop, as well as to a number of other 

 vegetables, such as cabbage, lettuce, onions, Irish potatoes, etc., are 

 described in succeeding pages. 



The general methods of vegetable production as practiced by the 

 Sanford growers is given below, inasmuch as it is believed that the 

 same methods will, in a general way, fit the conditions in the vicinity 

 of Brunswick. Of course it will be necessary to do many things 

 differently around Brunswick, as, for instance, some land here for 

 celery will mainly need drainage and probably little or no added 

 water after the crop is once well started. It is not meant that the 

 fertilizer practices of the Sanford growers should be followed strictly 

 here ; in fact, the practices vary considerably in that section to suit 

 the different soils and to accord with individual ideas, and the plant- 

 ing or setting of winter vegetables will in most cases have to be done 

 earlier about Brunswick than is the case in the more southern section. 



In the Sanford section imported celery seed is sown broadcast or 

 in drills on well-fertilized beds 3 or 4 feet wide. The young plant 

 are protected from the hot sun either by shading with cloth 

 heavier cloth than cheese cloth is used) arranged on peaked wh 

 frames or by parallel slanting slats on the south side of the 

 placed north and south to insure an equal distribution of sunlight 



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