66 BULLETIN 1005, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



It then appears that truck crops, which cover 50.4 per cent of the 

 entire area, comprise 84 per cent of the cropped area. 



Potatoes are the crop most extensively grown, occupying 23.9 per 

 cent of the total and 39.7 per cent of the cropped area. They are 

 the chief crop in both the Churchland and Onley areas, but in the 

 Diamond Springs area are exceeded in acreage by strawberries, 

 cabbage, and corn. 



Strawberries are second in rank, occupying 8.3 per cent of the 

 total and 13.8 per cent of the cropped area. They lead in acreage 

 in the Diamond Springs area but are of decidedly secondary impor- 

 tance in both of the others. 



Sweet potatoes cover 6.6 per cent of the entire area and 11.8 per 

 cent of the cropped area. They are important only in the Onley 

 area, are decidedly subordinate in the Diamond Springs area, and 

 are not found in the Churchland area. 



Cabbage occupies 5.5 per cent of the total area and 9.1 per cent 

 of the cropped area. It is an important crop in the Churchland and 

 Diamond Springs areas but practically lacking in the Onley area. 



Beans are similarly confined to the Churchland and Diamond 

 Springs areas. They occupy 2.6 per cent of the total area and 4.3 

 per cent of the cropped area. Owing to extensive interplanting of 

 beans with other crops, this does not quite give the crop its true 

 rank. Counting all areas of beans, those grown alone and inter- 

 planted with other crops, the percentages become 3 per cent of the 

 entire area and 5 per cent of the cropped area. 



Cucumbers, grown chiefly in the Churchland area and not at all 

 in the Onley area, occupy 1.5 per cent of the areas mapped and 2.4 

 per cent of the cropped area. 



All other vegetables cover 2 per cent of the total and 3.4 per cent 

 of the cropped area. 



It is evident that Irish potatoes constitute the most important 

 truck crop in eastern Virginia, occupying 47.3 per cent of the entire 

 acreage devoted to truck. 



Corn is the only important general farm crop, covering 6.5 per 

 cent of the total and 10.8 per cent of the cropped area. It is exceeded 

 in area by potatoes, strawberries, and sweet potatoes. This condi- 

 tion is changed, however, when fall crop areas are examined, since 

 corn, interplanted with the spring potato crop or following it, occupies 

 20 per cent of the total fall area and 33.6 per cent of the land then 

 in crops. This constitutes one of the important features of the 

 cropping of the region. It should be noted that each of the three 

 surveys exhibits a good acreage of corn, either planted alone or with 

 cowpeas or crimson clover. The Churchland area shows 264 acres; 

 the Diamond Springs area, 225 acres; and the Onley area, 463 acres. 

 Thus, at the proper time in the year, each of the districts makes 



