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the yield of the crop is less than if grown on a 

 soil holding more water, but the earlier maturity 

 makes it possible to realize a much higher price per 

 bushel for the crop. A sweet potato grown on such 

 a light soil is dry and starchy, a quality which brings 

 a higher price in the northern markets than does 

 the moist, soggy potato grown on heavier soils 

 which contain more water and produce larger 

 yields. 



Early white potatoes, early cabbage, water mel- 

 ons, musk-melons, tomatoes and other early truck 

 and market garden crops are also grown on light 

 soil holding from five to seven per cent, of water. 

 The main crop of potatoes and cabbage and the can- 

 ning crop of tomatoes are grown on the loam soils 

 holding from ten to eighteen per cent, of water. 

 Such soils produce a later though much larger 

 yield. 



Upland cotton produces best on a deep loam that 

 is capable of furnishing a uniform supply of about 

 ten or twelve per cent, of water during the growing 

 season. 



Sea Island Cotton grows best on a light, sandy 

 soil holding only five per cent, of water. 



On light, sandy soils the Upland Cotton produces 

 small plants with small yield of lint, while on clay 

 and bottom land, which are apt to have large 

 amounts of water, the plants grow very large and 

 produce fewer bolls, which are very late in maturing. 



Corn, while it will grow on a wide range of soils, 

 produces best on loam or moist bottom lands hold- 



