34 BULLETIN 677, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



SOIL AND CROP SURVEY OF THE THOROFARE AREA. 



A combined soil and crop map was made of an area surrounding 

 Thorofare in order to illustrate the relationship between soils and 

 crops in one of the most intensively farmed areas in southern New 

 Jersey. 



The Thorofare area is in an angle formed between the Delaware 

 Eiver and the lower course of Woodbury Creek, near its mouth. It 

 lies immediately to the west of Woodbury and about 12 miles south- 

 west of Camden. It is on the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad and 

 easily accessible by highway to the Philadelphia markets. Its ac- 

 cessibility to market is equal to that of the Freehold or the Hartford 

 areas. 



Practically all of the area selected lies on the low terrace which 

 borders the Delaware Eiver and only a small tract along the south- 



FiG. 15. — Late cabbage on Collington fine sandy loam, near Moorestown, N. J. 



ern border of the map rises to elevations greater than 30 feet above 

 tide level. 



The general surface of the upland portion rises gently in a south- 

 easterly direction from the tide marsh which borders the river. Only 

 along Woodbury Creek is there any sharp rise from marsh to up- 

 land. There the rise varies from 5 to 25 feet and is accomplished 

 in a low cliff, which gradually becomes lower toward the mouth of 

 the creek. 



From the river to Thorofare the surface is a low, slightly undulat- 

 ing plain, the highest altitudes of which are reached between Thoro- 



