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of which soil surveys are available. However the growers 

 discribed a clay loam of this series lying between Porters 

 loam and Porters clay. 



Varieties reported on this soil type are Albemarle, 

 Wine sap, York, Arkansas and Ben Davis. 



Porters clay consists of from 6 to 12 inches of a 



brown or reddish-brown loam, underlain by a heavy red loam, 



or stiff tenacious red clay. It is a rough mountain land, 



and is usually very stony having from 15 to 60 per cent of 



small and large schist fragments on the surface. It is found 



in small areas on the mountain slopes between 1000 and 2000 



feet elevation. This soil is often spoken of as "mountain 



red land" . The distribution of this soil type in the surveyed 



areas is given below. 



Area of Porters clay Proportional 



Acres extent per cent 

 Albemarle Area, Harrisonburg Sheet 10,944 



w n . Waynesboro n 16,000 3.6 

 " " Buckingham " 5,568 

 Leesburg area 2,752 1.0 



Bedford area 28,240 7.0 



Porters Clay has proved to be a good fruit soil. The 



more elevated parts of this soil approach very closely Porters 



black loam and in such localities apples do especially well. 



The data which follows shows the correlation between varieties 



and this soil type. 



