26 BULLETIN 1005, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the crop tabulation since they are handled chiefly for experimental 

 purposes. At the time of the survey potatoes occupied the greater 

 part of this acreage, while cabbage, strawberries, and cucumbers 

 with some forage crops and orchard occupied the remainder. 



The distribution of the various spring crops upon the different 

 soil types shows a selection of the Sassafras coarse sandy loam and 

 the Norfolk coarse sandy loam for the growing of strawberries. 

 These well-drained soils are capable of maturing an early crop, which 

 is desired in order to obtain the higher prices. The Sassafras loam 

 also is extensively planted to strawberries. 



The same group of soils leads in cabbage area. The largest number 

 of acres is found on the Norfolk coarse sandy loam, while the highest 

 percentage of total acreage in cabbage is found on the Sassafras 

 loam. Approximately one-half of the total area of Irish potatoes is 

 found on the Norfolk coarse sandy loam, and this type appears to 

 be distinctly preferred for the crop, 21.7 per cent of its area being 

 thus occupied. 



Of the beans, snap beans appear chiefly upon the Sassafras coarse 

 sandy loam and fine sandy loam and pole lima beans upon the Nor- 

 folk gravelly loam and the Suffolk loam and gravelly loam. The 

 latter crop is very extensively grown by the colored farmers in the 

 vicinity of Burton, which accounts largely for the use of these soils 

 for bean growing. 



The distribution of the other truck crops is not especially sig- 

 nificant. 



SOIL AND CROP ACREAGES FOR NOVEMBER. 



The November, 1915, crop map shows about the same proportionate 

 distribution of area between general farm crops and truck crops as 

 is shown by the map for June, 1916. The forage crops occupy 289 

 acres, or 15.1 per cent of the entire area. The truck crops cover 

 632.9 acres, or almost exactly one-third of the total area mapped. 



Among the general farm crops, corn leads in acreage. It covers 

 188.5 acres, planted alone, and an additional area of 36.7 acres in 

 combination with cowpeas. It thus occupies 11.8 per cent of the 

 whole area. 



Hay and pasture, soy beans, and subordinate forage crops occupy 

 63.8 acres, or 3.3 per cent of the area. 



Spinach is the winter truck crop most extensively grown in this 

 locality, occupying 275.5 acres, or 13.5 per cent of the total area. 

 (See PL X, fig. 1.) 



Strawberries, either planted alone or with a fall crop of peas or 

 snap beans, occupy 210.9 acres, or 11 per cent of the area. 



Beans, interplanted with strawberries, occupy 74.5 acres, while 

 beans planted alone, chiefly pole limas, occupy an additional area of 

 25.1 acres. 



