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BULLETIN 1005, U. S. DEPAETMEXT OF AGEICULTXJEE. 
Table III. — Proportion of total area and of the area of each soil type occupied by various 
crops and groups of crops, Churchland area, August, 1916. 
Crop and group of crops. 
All soils. 
Acres. 
Per 
cent. 
Sassafras fine 
sandy loam. 
Norfolk fine 
sandy loam. 
Acres. 
Per 
cent. 
Acres. 
Per 
cent. 
Keyport fine 
sandy loam. 
Acres. 
Per 
cent. 
General farm crops 
Hayi 
Corn 
Corn and soy beans . . 
Corn and co\v3)eas 
Co-nT)eas 
MUlet 
Truck crops 
Kale 
Spinach 
Potatoes '... 
Strawberries 
Beans 
Sweet potatoes 
No annual crop 
Forest 
Gardens and grounds . 
No crop 
Swamp 
601.5 
312.4 
163.3 
11.7 
89.0 
22.7 
2.4 
333. 8 
157.0 
70.8 
60.3 
40.5 
3.2 
2.0 
146.9 
44.5 
58.4 
42.9 
1.1 
55.6 
28.9 
15.1 
1.1 
8.2 
2.1 
.2 
30.8 
14.5 
6.5 
5.6 
3.7 
.3 
.2 
13.5 
4.1 
5.4 
3.9 
.1 
76.6 
39.1 
27.3 
40.2 
20.5 
14.3 
8.0 
2.2 
4.2 
1.2 
270.4 
153.1 
71.8 
1.1 
25.1 
19.3 
55.1 
31.2 
14.6 
.2 
5.1 
3.9 
75.7 
32.7 
36.1 
39.7 
17.2 
18.9 
6.5 
170.4 
84.1 
26.0 
36.5 
4 22.9 
.4 
38.2 
1.6 
27.9 
8.7 
.2 
20.0 
14.6 
4.6 
49.9 
.8 
22.5 
26.6 
Grand total 1, 
190.5 
99.9 490.7 
34.7 
17.1 
5.3 
7.4 
4.7 
138.6 
73.8 
36.3 
10.4 
15.1 
.6 
2.4 
61.4 
27.9 
7.4 
17.3 
5.6 
3.2 
66.2 
35.3 
17.3 
5.0 
7.2 
.3 
1.1 
29.4 
13.3 
3.6 
8.3 
2.7 
1.5 
.2 
10.2 
.2 
4.6 
5.4 
9.2 
6.9 
1.9 
.4 
4.4 
3.3 
.9 
.2 
100.0 
209.2 
Crop and group of crops. 
Suffolk fine 1 Portsmouth 
sandy loam. loam. 
"""'i^f ' Loamy sand. 
1 
Acres. 
Per 
cent. 
Acres. 
Per 
cent. 
Acres. 
Per 
cent. 
Acres. 
Per 
cent. 
General farm crops 
88.6 
37.8 
17.3 
60.8 
26.0 
11.8 
7.9 
2.1 
3.4 
66.4 
17.6 
28.6 
4.7 
50.5 
14.7 
6.5 
3.5 
.2 
4.3 
.2 
9.1 
3.7 
. .6 
3.7 
.4 
.7 
1.1 
59 
Hav 1 
26.1 
Corn.. . 
3.7 
39.8 
14.1 
Corn and sov beans 
.8 
Corn and cowpeas. 
33.5 
23.0 
2.4 
20.2 
.6 
.4 
6.4 
4.3 
17.2 
.8 
i5.i 
8.4 
10.4 
5.7 
.5 
. 2.0 
2.2 
2.1 
.2 
17.7 
1.7 
36.6 
Kale 
14.9 
Spinai^h. 
2.4 
Pot at 06'^. 
2.8 
14-9 
3.2 
1.9 
16.0 
1.6 
Sweet potatoes 
2.8 
No annual crop 
42.0 
34.4 
2.8 
4.8 
28.8 
23.6 
2.0 
3.2 
1.9 
.8 
16.0 
6.7 
4.6 
49.5 
4.4 
Forest 
2.2 
2.4 
23.7 
2.1.8 
■ 1.1 
4.4 
Swamp 
1.1 
9.3 
1 
Grand total 
145.7 
100.0 
11.9 
100.1 
9.3 inn.n 
24 9 i inn. n 
1 Volunteer hay, following a spring truck crop. 
Rough, broken land, chiefly in forest, 69.4 acres. 
Tidal marsh, 27.3 acres. 
SOIL AND CROP ACREAGES FOR JUXE. 
The crop map for June indicates that a total area of 942.1 acres 
or 87.1 per ceiit of the total area mapped is given to the growing of 
truck crops. In fact only 9.8 acres, or less than 1 per cent of the 
area, is in general farm crops. The remainder of the area, com- 
prising 129.3 acres of upland, consists of land occupied for gardens 
and grounds, 62.8 acres; ol forest, 44.5 acres: and of land not 
cropped and land classed as swamp, 22 acres. 
