IV DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULS. 1001-1025. 



Department Bulletin No 1005. — Soils of Eastern Virginia and Their 



Uses for Truck Crop Production: p age . 



Introduction 1 



The Norfolk trucking district 2 



Churchland area 9 



Diamond Springs area 18 



Soil preferences expressed by farmers 32 



General conclusions 38 



The Eastern Shore trucking district of Virginia 43 



Onley area 48 



Soil preferences expressed by farmers 59 



Relationship between special crops and definite soil types 64 



General summary 68 



Department Bulletin No. 1006. — Accounting Records for Sampling 

 Apples by Weight: 



Introduction 1 



The forms and their use 2 



Method of operation 4 



Condensed operating schedule 7 



Statements and ledger accounts 8 



Table of reciprocals 8 



Forms 10 



Progress chart '. . . . 13 



Department Bulletin No. 1007. — Utilization of Basswood: 



Introduction 1 



Properties of the wood 2 



Supply 5 



Annual drain on the supply 6 



The future of basswood timber 8 



Utilization by industries 8 



Markets 52 



Summary 56 



Appendix: Classified list of uses reported for basswood by factories 58 



Department Bulletin No. 1008. — Rate of Multiplication of the Hessian 

 Fly: 



Introductory and historical 1 



Methods of investigation 2 



Average number of ova for the principal broods 4 



Fall generation 4 



Spring generation 5 



Summer generation 5 



Sex ratio 6 



The meaning of these figures 6 



Conclusions 8 



Department Bulletin No. 1009. — Volume Variation of Bottled Foods: 



Purpose of investigation 1 



Some causes of variation in volume of food in bottles 2 



Bottle manufacture 2 



Bottle filling 5 



Types of bottles 6 



" Good commercial practice " in bottling .■ 7 



Calculated maximum variation in the volume of bottled foods 9 



Experimental results 12 



Variation in capacity of bottles 12 



Variation in volume of bottled foods 14 



Relation between the calculated maximum variation and temporary 



methods of meeting the declared volume 17 



Practical application of results 19 



Summary 19 



Literature cited 20 



