56 Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains Soils. 



grading into a sandy clay at an average depth of about 20 inches. 



J^evel plains and along streams. The latter areas are subject to 



occasional overflow. Drainage generally good. Gives a moderate 



yield of corn, and is very well adapted to late truck crops, in the 



South to cotton, in North Carolina to bright yellow tobacco, and 



in Texas to cigar wrapper leaf. This soil is not as valuable for 



truck as the Norfolk fine sand, nor as good a cotton soil as the 



Norfolk sandy loam, but is esteemed a better tobacco soil than the 



latter and fully equal if not somewhat superior to the former. 



12 3 4 



Soil (34) 12 53 26 8 



Subsoil (32) 10 12 22 24 



Acres. 



Calvert County, Md o 5, 220 



Craven, N. C 155, 136 



Darlington, S. C ^25, 600 



Gadsden, Fla 28,096 



Lufkin, Tex 6,016 



McNeill, Miss 81, 472 



Mason Conntv, Kv 832 



Acres. 



Mobile, Ala 7, 168 



Nacogdoches, Tex 19, 008 



Norfolk, Va 38, 144 



Prince George County, Md ... « 9, 660 

 Raleigh to Newbern, N. C. . . . 36, 100 



St. Mary County, Md « S, 500 



Willis, Tex <• 107, 180 



Norfolk loam. — Brown loam or sandy loam, usually containing 

 a very small amount of fine gravel. The subsoil is a yellow loam 

 containing considerable coarse sand. This is frequently under- 

 lain by a medium grade of yellow sand or by gravel. The tyyte 

 occupies level areas, usually terraces along rivers and tidal estu- 

 aries. The soil is easily tilled, well drained, and produces fair 

 yields of general farm crops. It is especially well adapted to sugar 

 corn, peas, and tomatoes for canning purposes, and also to peaches. 

 It is too heavy a soil for early truck, and not sufficiently heavy to 

 be classed as a general farming soil. 



1 



Soil (32) 16 



Subsoil (32) 15 



(I Mapped as Norfolk loam, but now brought into the proper place in tlie 

 Norfolk series. 

 ''> Mapped as Ayden tine sandy loam, which name will not be used hereafter. 



'•Part of this occurring on the uplands was mapped as Willis sand, the re- 

 mainder occupying a low position along the river was mapped as Norfolk 

 fine sandy loam. It is recognized now that these two areas should liavc been 

 combiuifl. 



