26 BULLETIX 1005, U. S. DEPAETMEXT OF AGEICULTUEE. 
the crop tabulation since they are handled chiefly for experimental 
purposes. At the time of the survey potatoes occupied the greater 
part of this acreage, while cabbage, strawberries, and cucumbers 
with some forage crops and orchard occupied the remainder. 
The distribution of the various spring crops upon the different 
soil types shows a selection of the Sassafras coarse sandy loam and 
the Norfolk coarse sandy loam for the growing of strawberries. 
These well-drained soils are capable of maturing an early crop, which 
is desired in order to obtain the higher prices. The Sassafras loam 
also is extensive!}^ planted to strawberries. 
The same group of soils leads in cabbage area. The largest number 
of acres is found on the Norfolk coarse sandy loam, while the highest 
percentage of total acreage in cabbage is found on the Sassafras 
loam. Approximately one-half of the total area of Irish potatoes is 
found on the Norfolk coarse sandy loam, and this type appears to 
be distinctly preferred for the crop, 21.7 per cent of its area being 
thus occupied. 
Of the beans, snap beans appear chiefly upon the Sassafras coarse 
sandy loam and fine sandy loam and pole lima beans upon the Nor- 
folk gravelly loam and the Suffolk loam and gravelly loam. The 
latter crop is very extensively grown by the colored farmers in the 
vicinity of Burton, which accounts largely for the use of these soils 
for bean growing. 
The distribution of the other truck crops is not especially sig- 
nificant. 
SOIL AND CROP ACREAGES FOR NOVEMBER. 
The November, 1915, crop map shows about the same proportionate 
distribution of area between general farm crops and truck crops as 
is shown by the map for June, 1916. The forage crops occupy 289 
acres, or 15.1 per cent of the entire area. The truck crops cover 
632.9 acres, or almost exactly one- third of the total area mapped. 
Among the general farm crops, corn leads in acreage. It covers 
188.5 acres, planted alone, and an additional area of 36.7 acres in 
combination with cowpeas. It thus occupies 11.8 per cent of the 
whole area. 
* Hay and pasture, soy beans, and subordinate forage crops occupy 
63.8 acres, or 3.3 per cent of the area. 
Spinach is the winter truck crop most extensively grown in this 
locality, occupying 275.5 acres, or 13.5 per cent of the total area. 
(See PI. X, fig. 1.) 
Strawberries, either planted alone or with a faU crop of peas or 
snap beans, occupy 210.9 acres, or 11 p6r cent of the area. 
Beans, interplanted with strawberries, occupy 74.5 acres, while 
beans planted alone, chiefly pole limas, occupy an additional area of 
25.1 acres. 
