52 BULLETIN 159, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Maryland type of pipe-smoking tobacco is grown on the fine sandy 

 loam, the loam, and to some extent on the silt loam in the southern 

 counties of Maryland. 



The farm equipment of buildings, stock, and implements on the 

 different types of the Sassafras series varies with the character of 

 the farming operations and to some extent with the type of soil. 

 The truck and fruit farms on the more sandy types are usually well 

 provided with substantial farm buildings, light, but effective work 

 stock and tillage implements, and the special equipment needed for 

 the conduct of intensive farming operations. The heavier soils of 

 the series are usually equipped with adequate dwellings and barns 

 and with somewhat heavier work stoGk and implements for grain 

 raising. 



The chief requirements for the improvement of crop yields upon 

 the different types of the series are the more extended use of stable 

 manure, supplemented with the plowing under of green-manuring 

 crops; the use of lime in some form, particularly in conjunction with 

 the growing of the legiuninous forage and green-manuring crops; 

 the adoption in some sections of a crop rotation which shall provide 

 for the alternation of grass crops with the prevalent system of grain 

 growing: and local underdrainage on small areas of the heavier 

 textured types. 



The soils of the Sassafras series constitute a group of soils which 

 are suited to intensive tillage for the growing of market garden and 

 truck crops upon the more sandy types while the heavier types con- 

 stitute the best soils for the production of the staple crops to be 

 found within the northern portion of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. 



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