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ties. 



Cecil Clay is sometimes spoken of as "red land" and 

 sometimes as "chocolate land", depending upon the color of 

 the soil. The soil of the Cecil clay varies from a brown to 

 a reddish or dark brown loam or clay loam, averaging about 

 8 inches in depth. The subsoil is a dark red clay loam, grad- 

 ing into stiff, tenacious red clay, 36 inches or more in depfch. . 

 Quartz sand and fragments are present in both the soil and 

 the subsoil, and angular fragments are found upon the surface; 

 these fragments often form as much as 60 per cent of the sur- 

 face. The wide extent and distribution of Cecil clay is shown 

 by the following table, compiled from the soil surveys refer- 

 red to above. 



Area of Cecil Clay Proportion- 

 al extant 

 Albemarle area, Harrisonburg Sheet 1,344 



w " Waynesboro " 24,704 8.8 



" M Buckingham " 53,632 



Bedford Area 142,730 35.3 



Leesburg " 32,000 11.9 



Campbell " 23,680 6.7 



Other areas in the Piedmont region where fruit is not grown 

 also show considerable bodies of this type of soil. 



The adaptation of varieties may be shown to some 

 extent by noting the order in which varieties were reported 

 on the Cecil clay type of soil, and the number of growers 

 reporting them. 



