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Cucumbers are also raised on the type. The seed is planted during 

 the month of March, and by June 1 the earliest cucumbers have been 

 picked. They are also marketed in 3-peck baskets, which sell during 

 the early part of the season at $2.50 and later sink to 75 cents, at 

 which price shipment usually ceases. The yield per acre is decidedly 

 variable, ranging from 200 baskets to many times that number. 



It will thus be seen that on the best early truck soil, the Norfolk 

 fine sand, several intensively farmed truck crops are already produced, 

 though they are planted only by a few progressive truck growers 

 and the total acreage is limited. In the case of all of these crops 

 good profits are secured, and the local adaptability of the soil type 

 to the cultivation of early Irish potatoes, snap beans, cucumbers, 

 and lettuce is fully demonstrated. When consideration is also given 

 to the uniform successes which have been achieved with these and 

 several additional truck crops upon the Norfolk fine sand in the 

 other established trucking areas, there can be no doubt as to the suc- 

 cessful development of the Xorfolk fine sand as a truck soil in the 

 vicinity of Savannah. Thousands of acres of the type some cul- 

 tivated, some wild land exist to the east, north, and west of the city 

 within easy access to shipping facilities, both rail and water. 



The following table shows the texture of the Norfolk fine sand : 



Mechanical analyses of Norfolk fine sand. 



NORFOLK FINE SANDY LOAM. 



The surface soil of the Norfolk fine sandy loam to a depth of 10 

 inches or more is a fine, loamy yellow sand. The subsoil in the vicin- 

 ity of Savannah is unusually deep and consists of a brown to yellow 

 or gray loamy sand, which becomes more loamy and coherent with 

 increasing depth, and at 24 to 34 inches grades into a mottled, red 

 and yellow, sticky sandy clay. The type lies generally at lower 

 levels than the ridges occupied by the Norfolk fine sand, and for 

 this reason there is a less depth of fine sand overlying the sandy clay. 

 The position of the sandy clay nearer the surface renders both the 

 soil and subsoil of the Norfolk fine sandy loam more retentive of 

 moisture than the fine sand, and therefore its crops are not matured 

 in quite so short a season as on the fine sand. The yields per acre 

 are not infrequently greater when conditions of cultivation are 



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