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The subsoil is a yellowish-red clay grading into a stiff red 



clay. The type occupies some of the higher ridges of the 



valleys and has good drainage. It is of residual and colluv- 



ial origin, being derived from limestone. The occurrence of 



this fcoil type is shown by the figures given below. 



Area of Hagerstown Sandy Proportional 

 loam Acres. extent per cent 



Albemarle area, Harrisonburg Sheet 35,520) 5 n 



" " Waynesboro " 9,984) 



Bedford area 11,910 2.9 



Leesburg area 1,216 0.5 



Montgomery area 7,652 3.0 



The ridges and lower slopes of mountains have been 

 found to be especially well adapted to peaches. A number of 

 successful commercial peach orchards are found on this soil. 

 Many apple orchards have been planted on this type of soil, 

 and some of them have already come into bearing. The adap- 

 tation of varieties to Hagerstown sandy loam is shown by 

 the data which follows. 



Variety No. of growers reporting it. 



York J8 



Ben Davis 19 



Wine sap * 6 



Stayman Wine sap il 

 Arkansas *j 



Grimes j* 



Albemarle " 



Gano ^ 



Jonathan * 



Rome 1 



Hagerstown loam is a brown or yellow loam 12 inches 

 deep, underlain by a yellow clay loam to a depth of 24 inches, 



