SOILS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND THEIR USES. (il 
pressed a preference for a sandy or sandy loam soil for tomato grow- 
ing, while 48 per cent of the replies indicated a preference for a loam 
or heavy loam soil. It has already been shown that the latter group 
corresponds to the canning-crop requirements, while the former indi- 
cates the growing of tomatoes as a truck crop. 
Sweet corn.—This crop was not mapped separately from field corn 
in any of the four detailed surveys. 
Asparagus.——The mapped areas showed that 349.6 acres of aspar- 
agus were grown on the sandy and coarse sandy loam soils. This 
constitutes 85 per cent of the total acreage mapped. The Sassafras 
sandy loam carried one-half of the remainder of the total acreage. 
The answers to inquiries indicate 26 per cent of the farmers distinctly 
preferring a sand soil and 61 per cent desiring a sandy loam soil for 
this crop. It may thus be said that the more sandy soils are best for 
asparagus growing. The existence of a sandy loam deep subsoil 
was especially required in many of the answers. 
Cantaloupes—The mapped areas of this crop showed 140.6 acres 
grown cn the soils of the sand and coarse sandy loam group. The 
answers to inquiries indicate a preference for sandy soils to the ex- 
tent of 25 per cent of the total and for sandy loam soils to the ex- 
tent of 63 per cent. Loam soils were preferred in 12 per cent of the 
- answers. It will be noted that the Sassafras sand carried 93.1 acres 
out of a total of 165.3 acres of the crop as mapped. The Sassafras 
coarse sandy loam and sandy loam carried the other important 
acreages. 
Cabbage—The Sassafras loam bore 31.1 acres of cabbage out of 
42.5 acres mapped. The Portsmouth sandy loam carried 9.5 acres of 
the remainder. In the answers to inquiries, 71 per cent of the grow- 
ers preferred a loam, while 11 per cent desired an even heavier soil. 
The Portsmouth sandy loam, because of imperfect drainage, responds 
to cropping in a manner similar to an ordinary loam. The agreement 
of mapped facts and those derived from correspondence is close. 
- Watermelons—Within the mapped areas watermelons occurred to 
the extent of 24.7 acres on the Sassafras sand, out of a total of 47.5 
acres mapped. Eighty per cent of the crop was found on the sand 
and coarse sandy loam group. In the replies to inquiries it was found 
that 56 per cent of the replies favored a sand soil and 41 per cent a 
sandy loam. 
None of the other minor truck crops were encountered in sufficient 
area to permit of any very definite conclusions. 
Allowing for slight differences in the usage of soi] nomenclature 
as between the popular custom and the professional classification, the 
correspondence between the two classes of evidence is seen to be 
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