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tinctly poorly drained. They cover approximately 14 per cent 
of the area. 
These conditions of soil texture and of drainage are reflected 
strongly in the cropping of the two areas. 
The Churchland area is one of very complete agricultural occu- 
pation. About 88 per cent of the upland is occupied by some crop. 
The area in forest is relatively small, amounting to about 4 per cent 
of the total. The greater part of this occurs in one tract upon the 
Suffolk fine sandy loam, to which artificial drainage has not yet 
been extended. Tn the Diamond Springs area cultivation occupies 
but 48 per cent of the total area, 30 per cent is in forest, and 17 per 
cent of the cleared area is occupied for experimental purposes or is 
not tilled. The occurrence of large tracts of forest on the Norfolk 
loam and gravelly loam and upon the Sufi'olk loam is notable. These 
types need additional drainage facilities to become available for the 
growing of any truck crops. 
A comparison of the spring cropping conditions shows that 87 
per cent of the Churchland area is occupied by truck crops, while 
35 per cent of the Diamond Springs area is so cropped. Potatoes 
are by far the most extensively planted crop in the Churchland 
area, covering nearly 57 per cent of the ground. Strawberries are 
as emphatically the leading crop in the Diamond Springs area, occu- 
pying 15 per cent of the area. In both areas cabbage occupies second 
place. Snap beans, cucumbers, strawberries, and garden peas are 
the other important spring crops in the Churchland area. Potatoes 
and snap and pole lima beans are of importance in the Diamond 
Springs area. 
In both areas the spring truck crops occupy a large proportion of 
the area available for farming. 
The faU crop conditions in the two areas are not quite so directly 
comparable, since the surveys were made in two different years and 
not precisely at the same cropping period. Yet it is rather sig- 
nificant that kale leads among the fall truck crops in the Churchland 
area (PI. X, fig. 2), while spinach leads in the Diamond Springs area. 
Strawberries, which occupy the land during the year, show a large 
fall acreage in the Diamond Springs area. In the Churchland area 
spinach and a fall crop of potatoes are almost equally important. 
In the Diamond Springs area the winter planting of cabbage for 
spring harvest is second to spinach in area, and the fall crop of 
potatoes is of rather small extent. 
In the Churchland area only a moderate proportion of the avail- 
able area is given- to fall and winter crops, whereas in the Diamond 
Springs area the fall and winter cropping is almost equal to the 
spring area. 
