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SOILS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND THEIR USES. (3 
__ are preferred. Their presence in dominant area invariably leads to 
the production of these crops in chief acreage. As a result, dairying, 
the sale of wheat, corn, and hay as cash crops, and the growing of 
one other sale crop, Irish potatoes, constitute the dependence of those 
farmers whose holdings include any large areas of the Sassafras 
loam, Sassafras fine sandy loam, Collington fine sandy loam, and 
Collington sandy loam. 
For the growing of potatoes the heavier soils of the Sassafras 
and Collington series are especially well suited. Consequently, Irish 
potatoes are the most extensively grown sale crop within the general 
farming belt, and their extensive production stops sharply at the 
boundaries of definitely sandy soils. Only for early truck sales are 
such soils even as the Sassafras sandy loam used to any extent for 
potato production. 3 
The other main group of soils, the sands and coarse sandy loams, is 
as distinctly avoided for general farming as the loamy soils are 
chosen. Wherever the more sandy but tillable soils are found, from 
Raritan Bay to the mouth of the Delaware, trucking as a distinct 
farm business has gained the preponderance. Within this group of 
soils specialization in cropping has gone to such an extent that the 
farmers of southern New Jersey have developed distinct preferences 
for definite soil types for the growing of specific crops. The fol- 
lowing tabulation, derived chiefly from the results of the detailed 
soil surveys, will show what experience to the present time has 
proved to be the accepted crop adaptations of the more extensive 
trucking soils. 
TABLE XIV.—List of soils by series, groups, and types, showing uses. 
SASSAFRAS SERIES. 


Soilgroup and type. | Truck crops. General farm crops. | Fruit crops. 


I, Sand group: 
Dassaltas coarse | Sweet potatoes, asparagus. .-.-- sc ee NS mies stn Sees ae tye 
sand. | 
Sassafras sand_.._.- Sweet potatoes, asparagus, can- | Corn, alfalfa, rye....... 
taloupes, tomatoes,1 melons, 
peppers, eggplant, peas, 
beans, cucumbers, sweet | 
corn. | 
Sassafras loamy sand -| Sweet potatoes, asparagus, can- | Corn, alfalfa, rye, cow- 
taloupes, tomatoes,! melons, peas. 
peppers, eggplant, peas, 
beans, sweet corn. 
Sassafras fine sand....| Sweet potatoes, asparagus, to- | Corn, hay, rye......... Do. 
matoes,' cantaloupes, melons, | | 
peppers, cucumbers. 

Peaches, berries. 


Peaches, pears, berries. 
Il. Sandy loam group: 
Sassafras coarse | Sweet potatoes, tomatoes,! pep- | Corn, hay, rye, alfalfa..| Peaches, berries, grapes. 

sandy loam. pers, cucumbers. 
Sassafras gravelly | Potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, | Corn, hay,rye,wheat..| Peaches, pears, apples, 
sandy loam. peppers. cherries, grapes, ber- 
Sassafras sandy 
oam. 
IIT, Loam group: 
Sassafras fine 
sandy loam. 
Sassafras loam... 
Potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, 
sweet corn, peas, beans. 
Potatoes, tomatoes for canning, 
cabbage. 
Potatoes, tomatoes for canning, 
cabbage. 

Corn, hay, rye, wheat, 
peas, oats, alfalfa. 
Corn, hay, wheat, oats - 
1 Early truck crops. 
Tves. 
Apples, pears, peaches, 
grapes. 
Apples, pears. 
