
SOILS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND THEIR USES. 19 
but also in importance. This type practically fixes the form of 
agriculture and the crop usages of the area represented. 
The absolute and relative extent of the different soils mapped in 
the Freehold area is given in Table IT. 
TABLE IJ.—Extent of different soil types, Freehold area. 


Propor- Propor- 
Area tion of | Area tion of 
Soil type. occu- total oc- Soil type. occu- | total oc- 
pied. cupied | pied. cupied 
area. -| area. 
; Acres. Per cent. Acres. | Per cent. 
Sassairast Oana see aes 2,098. 8 83.7 || Collington clay loam.......... 1553 6 
Sassafras sandy loam......... 90.8 3.6 || Collington sandy loam........ 14.1 -6 
@olisiNeck- loamy sess ase 68. 2 PT |] Weanenovernil Mop se bee 111.8 4.5 
Colts Neck sandy loam....... 65.7 2.6 a 
Collingtoniloamenee. seseee see 42. 4 115% 2,00 7a dt Sao seeeee 

These soil types comprise the upland farming area and aggregate 
2,507.1 acres of land occupied either for the production of crops, as 
farm woodlot, or for the necessary sites of farm homesteads and farm 
lanes. 
USES OF SOILS. 
The interpretation of the agricultural uses of the soils of this area 
is based upon: 
(1) The total acreage of each crop as it stood in August, 1914. 
(2) The percentage relationship of each crop area to the total area 
of all farm crops as mapped. 
(3) The classification of all crops recorded into general farm crops, 
including lima beans; truck crops, including Irish potatoes; fruit 
crops, including all orchard, berry, and nursery crops, and the sup- 
plementary areas of land not used for the production of any annual 
crop, but occupied by gardens and grounds, forested areas, and land 
not in crops for various reasons. 
This classification gives an opportunity for the comparison of the 
crop uses of each type with the standard as established for the area 
by the percentages given for “all soils.” For example, it will be seen 
that the percentage of the total area of the Sassafras loam which is 
given to potato growing is 42.4 per cent, while the percentage of all 
soils in the area is 40.3 per cent in potatoes. This indicates that the 
type 1s used somewhat more extensively for potato growing than the 
average, a matter to be expected, since a larger proportion of the 
type is under cultivation than the average for the area. 
_ Table IIT summarizes this information: 


