SOILS OF SOUTHEEISr ISTEW JEESEY AND THEIR USES. 



29 



consists of a deep deposit of slightly coherent sand, loose at the sur- 

 face but loamy below a depth varying from 14 to 30 inches. It is 

 somewhat more drought}^ than the normal type and rather better 

 suited to special truck or fruit crops than to the staple farm crops. 

 The absolute and the relative extent of the occupied areas of 

 different soil tj'pes are given in Table IV: 



Table IV. — Extent of different soil types, Hartford Area. 



Soil. 



Area 

 occu- 

 pied. 



Propor- 

 tion of 

 total oc- 

 cupied 

 area. 



Soil. 



Area 

 occu- 

 pied 



Propor- 

 tion of 

 total oc- 

 cupied 

 area. 





Acres. 

 938.6 

 532.0 

 41.8 



115.9 

 106.4 



Per cent. 



45.2 



25.6 



2.0 



5.6 

 5.1 



Collington sand 



Acres. 

 283.1 

 30.4 

 30.4 



Per cent. 

 13.6 





Elbton loam 



1.5 



Collington sandy loam 



CoUington sandy loam, deep 



Portsmoutli sandy loam 



Total 



1.5 



2,078.6 



100.1 



Collington fine sandy loam . . . 







The total area covered by the map comprises 2,259.1 acres, while 

 2,078.6 acres were upland soils agriculturally occupied or capable of 

 such occupation. The areas of rough broken land along the stream 

 courses and those of the Freneau loam, in the stream bottoms, were 

 not included in the estimation of the cropped acreages. The inter- 

 pretation of facts is based upon the area of 2,078.6 acres. 



USES OF SOILS. 



Table V shows the total areas of the soil types and the crops 

 supported by them and the percentage relationships of the tracts 

 cropped or otherwise occupied. 



