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to general i'arin crops and to ribbon cane. Aii'ali'a should do well on 

 the Kalmia sand and the fine sand. 



To increase the general agricultural production of the county a 

 diversification of crops, which would enable the farmer to raise his 

 home supplies and to make cotton his surplus money crop is neces- 

 sary. This plan would permit him to practice a rotation of crops, 

 which would increase the productiveness of the soil and enable him 

 to maintain the yield of the cotton crops. Certain areas could be de- 

 voted to special crops for local and outside markets. 



Other essential factors, which should receive attention, are an in- 

 crease in the organic-matter content of the upland soils, the preven- 

 tion of the erosion on the slopes, and the drainage of the alluvial soils. 



The prevailing credit system, the outgrowth of tenant farming, with 

 the high rate of interest charged under it, is also a factor retarding 

 the agricultural development of the county. 



SOIL SURVEY or TITUS COUNTY, TEXAS, MADE IN 1909. 



SUMMARY. 



Titus county is located in the northeastern part of Texas, and with 

 the exception of a few square miles of prairie in the northwestern 

 corner it lies within the hard-timber belt. The greater part of the 

 upland is rolling, but very little is too rough for farming. Drainage 

 is good except on the bottom lands. 



Titus county is one of the old counties of Texas, having been or- 

 ganized in 1846. The settlers came mostly from Tennessee, Georgia 

 and Alabama. Agriculture has always been the chief occupation of its 

 inhabitants. Mount Pleasant is the county seat and the largest town. 

 Winfield and Cookville are important shipping points. 



The climate is mild, without extremes of heat and cold. The seasons 

 are long enough to permit the maturity of all crops grown in this sec- 

 tion and farm work can be carried on during every month of the vear. 

 Frosts rarely occur late enough in the spring to cut off the peaches" and 

 other fruits. 



Cotton and corn are the principal crops. The area is of interest be- 

 cause it is rapidly changing from a one-crop system to a diversification 

 of crops. The old system of growing cotton exclusively, or with a 

 small acreage of corn, is being replaced by rotations that may include 

 peanuts, cowpeas. potatoes, ribbon cane, forage crops, and truck crops. 

 Many peach orchards have been planted and other fruits are grown to 

 some extent. 



Thirteen types of soil have been mapped in Titus county. Of the 

 upland soils there are two groups those of the prairies and those of 

 the wooded areas. On the prairies there are two series, the Wilson, 

 which has two types, and the Lufkin, which has one. The soils are 

 derived from the Cretaceous rocks; they are dark-gray to brown sandy 

 loams and clay loams and the subsoils are heavy in texture and brown 

 in color, the subsoil of the Lufkin series being the more compact. 



The soils of the wooded areas are all of a sandy nature and are 

 derived from sanely shales and clnys of the Eocene. There are two 



