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are preferred. Their presence in dominant area invariably leads to 

 the production of these crops in chief acreage. As a result, dairying, 

 the sale of wheat, corn, and hay as cash crops, and the growing of 

 one other sale crop, Irish potatoes, constitute the dependence of those 

 farmers whose holdings include any large areas of the Sassafras 

 loam. Sassafras fine sandy loam, CoUington fine sandy loam, and 

 Collington sandy loam. 



For the growing of potatoes the heavier soils of the Sassafras 

 and Collington series are especially well suited. Consequently, Irish 

 potatoes are the most extensively grown sale crop within the general 

 farming belt, and their extensive production stops sharply at the 

 boundaries of definitely sandy soils. Only for early truck sales are 

 such soils even as the Sassafras sandy loam used to any extent for 

 potato production. 



The other main group of soils, the sands and coarse sandy loams, is 

 as distinctly avoided for general farming as the loamy soils are 

 shosen. Wherever the more sandy but tillable soils are found, from 

 Raritan Bay to the mouth of the Delaware, trucking as a distinct 

 farm business has gained the preponderance. Within this group of 

 soils specialization in cropping has gone to such an extent that the 

 farmers of southern New Jersey have developed distinct preferences 

 for definite soil types for the growing of specific crops. The fol- 

 lowing tabulation, derived chiefly from the results of the detailed 

 soil surveys, will show what experience to the present time has 

 proved to be the accepted crop adaptations of the more extensive 

 trucking soils. 



Table XIV. — List of soils 6(/ series, groups, and types, showing uses. 



SASSAFRAS SERIES. 



Soil group and type. 



Truck crops. 



General farm crops. 



Fruit crops. 



. Sand group: 









sand. 

 Sassafras sand 



Sweet potatoes, asparagus, can- 

 taloupes, tomatoes,^ melons, 

 peppers, eggplant, peas, 

 beans, cucumbers, sweet 

 corn. 



Corn, alfalfa, rye 



Peaches, berries. 



Sassafras loamy sand . 

 Sassafras fine sand 



Sweet potatoes, asparagus, can- 

 taloupes, tomatoes,^ melons, 

 peppers, eggplant, peas, 

 beans, sweet corn. 



Sweet potatoes, asparagus, to- 

 matoes,^ cantaloupes, melons, 

 peppers, cucumbers. 



Sweet potatoes, tomatoes,'^ pep- 

 pers, cucumbers. 



Potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, 

 peppers. 



Corn, alfalfa, rye, cow- 

 peas. 



Corn, hay, rye 



Peaches, pears, berries. 

 Do. 



I. Sandy loam group: 

 Sassafras coarse 



sandy loam. 

 Sassafras gravelly 



sandy loam. 



Cora, hay, rye, alfalfa. . 

 Corn, hay, rye, wheat. . 



Peaches, berries, grapes. 



Peaches, pears, apples, 

 cherries, grapes, ber- 



Sassafras sandy 

 loam. 

 n. Loam group: 



Sassafras fine 



sandy loam. 

 Sassafras loam... 



Potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, 

 sweet corn, peas, beans. 



Potatoes, tomatoes for carming, 



cabbage. 

 Potatoes, tomatoes for canning, 



cabbage. 



Corn, hay, rye, wheat, 

 peas, oats, alfalfa. 



Corn, hay, wheat, oats . 



Apples, pears, peaches, 

 grapes. 



Apples, pears. 



do 











1 Early truck crops. 



