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equally good, and this compensation leads to a considerable occupa- 

 tion of the type for early truck crops. For certain later truck crops 

 the Norfolk fine sandy loam is to be preferred over the Norfolk fine 

 sand. It is also better adapted to cotton, corn, and bright tobacco, 

 when it is desired to produce these crops in connection with market 

 gardening or trucking. 



In the present trucking region around Savannah the crops already 

 described on the Norfolk fine sand are also produced on the fine sandy 

 loam with nearly as good results. The area of Norfolk fine sandy 

 loam in the immediate vicinity of the city was apparently less than 

 of the fine sand, and occurred around the slopes which mark the 

 margins of the more sandy ridges. Level areas of the Norfolk fine 

 sandy loam occur east and south of Savannah, and nowhere in the 

 type are the slopes too steep for profitable cultivation. 



The Norfolk fine sandy loam is especially suited to the production 

 of winter and early spring cabbage, though this crop is not grown 

 about Savannah. Its adaptation to the crop is so well known and so 

 highly appreciated in other southern trucking areas that the type is 

 in such localities known as " cabbage land." From 150 to 230 crates 

 of cabbage, of 100 pounds each, can be grown on an acre of Norfolk 

 fine sandy loam, and the crates sell at $5 for extra early to $1.50 for 

 the later crop. When a crop of cabbage has been sold, either a sum- 

 mer forage crop, a late potato crop, or a crop of green peas or sugar 

 corn for canning purposes can be grown the same season. If such 

 a rotation is followed the land is benefited, the fertilizer bill is re- 

 duced through the production of green manure or stable manure from 

 by-products, and the cost of the production of the first or truck crop 

 is not infrequently paid by the profits from the second crop the 

 forage, seed, or canning crop. 



PORTSMOUTH SERIES. 



The Portsmouth series is characterized by dark-gray to black sur- 

 face soils, underlain by yellow, gray, or mottled yellow and gray 

 subsoils. The dark, mucky appearance of the soils is due to an accu- 

 mulation of partly decayed organic matter during an earlier or exist- 

 ing swampy condition. The series as a rule is rather poorly drained 

 naturally, and to bring it under cultivation open ditches and subsoil 

 tile drains are usually necessary. The soils of the Portsmouth series 

 may be considered as intermediate between the light-colored, well- 

 drained Norfolk soils on the one hand and the deep accumulations of 

 organic material of Peat and Swamp areas on the other. 



Notwithstanding their naturally poorly drained condition, the soils 

 of this series are in most instances easily reclaimed by ditching, and 

 when brought into proper condition are highly productive for both 



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