SOILS OF EASTERN VIRGINIA. 



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crops are grown upon 985.7 acres, or 51.9 per cent of the area mapped. 

 Forest occupies 573.4 acres, or 30.2 per cent of all the land area, and 

 an additional area of 329.4 acres of land is not in commercial crops. 



The figures given for "All soils" establish a standard of crop 

 occupations for the area and it is possible to make comparison of the 

 relative areas of the different crops and groups of crops for each soil 

 type with this standard. • 



The Norfolk coarse sandy loam, Sassafras coarse sandy loam, and 

 Sassafras loam all carry a high percentage of truck crops. 



The Sassafras fine sandy loam, the Norfolk gravelly loam, and 

 the Suffolk loam and gravelly loam all carry a percentage of the 

 general farm crops above the average. 



The Norfolk loam, Suffolk loam, and Norfolk gravelly sandy loam 

 carry a high percentage of forested area. 



Strawberries, either grown alone or interplanted with potatoes or 

 beans, occupy 286.2 acres. This is a larger area than in any other 

 spring truck crop and amounts to 15 per cent of the total area mapped. 

 (See PL VIII, figs. 1 and 2.) 



Cabbage ranks second among truck crops, covering 118.1 acres or 

 6.2 per cent of the area. 



Irish Cobbler potatoes cover 111.1 acres and are interplanted with 

 strawberries to an additional extent of 21.1 acres. 



Snap and lima beans occupy 71.7 acres, to which should be added 

 an area of 16.8 acres, interplanted with strawberries. (See PL IX, 

 figs. 1 and 2.) 



The remaining truck crops occupy subordinate acreages, with 

 sweet potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, and cantaloupes as the leading 

 crops. 



Among the general farm crops corn is by far the most important, 

 occupying 192.3 acres, or 10.1 per cent of the total area mapped. 



The large area not occupied by any crop is caused by the fact 

 that a considerable part of the Norfolk loam and a part of the Sassa- 

 fras fine sandy loam, both occurring in the lower plain, are included 

 in a tract not regularly farmed. The crop areas of the Virginia 

 Truck Experiment Station farm 2 are not measured and included in 



2 The following table gives the area of the several soils in this tract: 



Soils of the Virginia Truck Experiment Station farm. 



Soil type. 



Sassafras coarse sandy loam. . 



Sassafras loam 



Norfolk coarse sandy loam. . . 

 Norfolk gravelly sandy loam. 



Norfolk gravelly loam 



Norfolk silt loam 



Norfolk loam 



In forest. 



Acres. 

 0.7 



3.6 

 9.0 



Experimen- 

 tal plots 



and station 

 grounds. 



Veres. 

 6.7 

 3.8 

 3.4 

 1.4 



10.3 

 9.0 



20.3 



54.9 



Total 

 area. 



Acres. 

 7.4 

 3.8 

 8.1 

 1.4 



10.3 

 9.0 



23.9 



63.9 



