SOILS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND THEIR USES. 29 
consists of a deep deposit of slightly coherent sand, loose at the sur- 
face but loamy below a depth varying from 14 to 30 inches. It is 
somewhat more droughty than the normal type and rather better 
suited to special truck or fruit crops than to the staple farm crops. 
The absolute and the relative extent of the occupied areas of 
different soil types are given in Table IV: 
TABLE 1V.—Hatent of different soil types, Hartford Area. 
Propor- |] , Propor- 
Area, tion of Area tion of 
Soil. occu- total oc- Soil. occu- | total oc- 
pied. cupied pied cupied 
area. area. 
Acres. | Percent. Acres. | Per cent. 
Sassainas loamenys. a. sssee asses 938. 6 A5e2) |e Colling tom sandencance acme see 283.1 13.6 
Sassafras sandy loam........- 532. 0 2 5SOn | ellcbonyl Od meses =e eeeee 30.4 eS 
Collington sandy loam_....-..- 41.8 | 2.0 || Portsmouth sandy loam...... 30. 4 1S 
Collington sandy loam, deep | 
HASe eee eee a ne yeas 115.9 5.6 Totalietssscesccescecse 2,078.6 100.1 
Collington fine sandy loam. - : 106. 4 pil 
The total area covered by the map comprises 2,259.1 acres, while 
2,078.6 acres were upland soils agriculturally occupied or capable of 
such occupation. The areas of rough broken land along the stream 
courses and those of the Freneau loam, in the stream bottoms, were 
not included in the estimation of the cropped acreages. The inter- 
pretation of facts is based upon the area of 2,078.6 acres. 
USES OF SOILS. 
Table V shows the total areas of the soil types and the crops 
supported by them and the percentage relationships of the tracts 
cropped or otherwise occupied. 
