SOILS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND THEIR USES. 11 
intensively for some form of crop production. Within that division 
agriculture has been developed to a high degree of specialization, 
with a certain amount of selection of particular soil conditions for 
the growing of specific crops. Probably the two most important 
natural factors determining the class of occupation of the land in 
this region are the topographic features of land slope and the 
natural drainage conditions of the upland soil types. 
Since the surface slope largely controls the mechanical efficiency 
of farming operations, rough, sloping land may not be economically 
occupied for the purposes even of staple crop production. Yet 
where slopes are not too steep or the surface too broken the excellent 
facilities for both air and soil drainage frequently render such 

Fig. 6.—Harvesting timothy hay on reclaimed Tide marsh, near Woodbury, N. J. 
situations desirable for certain forms of orcharding. In eastern 
Monmouth County such areas occur with soil conditions otherwise 
favorable to agriculture. Some of the finest orchards in the region 
are located on these rolling to decidedly hilly lands. In other cases 
- where the land is too broken or danger from destructive erosion is 
too great, the land is either in forest or occupied as pastures. 
A second class of lands within the dominant agricultural region 
which has escaped the intensive occupation common to the region 
comprises such soils as from their position or texture are commonly 
waterlogged. 
Along many of the minor drainage ways the sluggish stream course 
is bordered on one or both sides by lands subject to periodical over- 
