SOILS OF SOUTHEEISr ISTEW JEESEY AXD THEIR USES. 



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Yet certain truck crops are discriminated against as markedly as 

 these four are preferred for production on this soil. 



Irish potatoes only occupy 1.9 acres on the Sassafras sand, com- 

 pared with 32.3 acres on the Sassafras sandy loam, or 13 per cent of 

 its area; 13.3 acres ion the CoUington fine sandy loam, or 29.2 per 

 cent of its area ; and 9.5 acres on the Portsmouth sandy loam, or T.7 

 per cent of the area of that type. This distinction is in full accord 

 with the conclusions reached in comiection with the observations 

 concerning the general region. 



The acreage in cabbage is concentrated on the Portsmouth sandy 

 loam — a moist, low-ljdng soil — this crop appearing only to a limited 

 extent pn the Sassafras sand and the CoUington fine sandy loam. 



The absence of anything but a purely accidental area of asparagus 

 from all soil types except the Sassafras sand is decidedly significant. 



Fig. 20. — Sweet corn interplanted with string beans on Sassafras sand. 



Wherever possible the other soils of the area have been avoided for 

 setting asparagus beds and only where small areas of other types 

 were closely associated with this chosen asparagus soil is any acreage 

 of the crop discovered. 



The contrast between the crop occupation of the Sassafras sand and 

 the Sassafras sandy loam is marked. The former type is absolutely 

 dominated by truck crops; the latter carried 51.1 per cent of its area 

 in general farm crops. On the former, asparagus is the leading 

 crop; on the latter,. hay leads in acreage and corn is a close second. 

 Among truck crops, potatoes co^ cr only 1.9 acres on the Sassafras 



