66 BULLETIX 1005, U. S. DEPARTMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 
It then appears that truck crops, which cover 50.4 per cent of the 
entke area, comprise 84 per cent of the cropped area. 
Potatoes are the crop most extensively grown, occupying 23.9 per 
cent of the total and 39.7 per cent of the cropped area. They are 
the chief crop in both the Churchland and Onley areas, but in the 
Diamond Springs area are exceeded in acreage by strawberries, 
cabbage, and corn. 
Strawberries are second in rank, occupying 8.3 per cent of the 
total and 13.8 per cent of the cropped area. They lead in acreage 
in the Diamond Springs area but are of decidedly secondary impor- 
tance in both of the others. 
Sweet potatoes cover 6.6 per cent of the entire area and 11.8 per 
cent of the cropped area. They are important only in the Onley 
area, are decidedly subordinate in the Diamond Springs area, and 
are not found in the Churchland area. 
Cabbage occupies 5.5 per cent of the total area and 9.1 per cent 
of the cropped area. It is an important crop in the Churchland and 
Diamond Springs areas but practically lacking in the Onley area. 
Beans are similarly confined to the Churchland and Diamond 
Springs areas. They occupy 2.6 per cent of the total area and 4.3 
per cent of the' cropped area. Omng to extensive interplanting of 
beans with other crops, this does not quite give the crop its true 
rank. Counting all areas of beans, those growni alone and inter- 
planted with other crops, the percentages become 3 per cent of the 
entire area and 5 per cent of the cropped area. 
Cucumbers, growTi chiefly in the Churchland area and not at all 
in the Onley area, occupy 1.5 per cent of the areas mapped and 2.4 
per cent of the cropped area. 
AU other vegetables cover 2 per cent of the total and 3.4 per cent 
of the cropped area. 
It is evident that Irish potatoes constitute the most important 
truck crop in eastern Virginia, occupying 47.3 pfer cent of the entire 
acreage devoted to truck. 
Corn is the only important general farm crop, covering 6.5 per 
cent of the total and 10.8 per cent of the cropped area. It is exceeded 
in area by potatoes, strawberries, and sweet potatoes. This condi- 
tion is changed, however, when faU crop areas are examined, since 
corn, interplanted with the spring potato crop or following it, occupies 
20 per cent of the total fall area and 33.6 per cent of the land then 
in crops. This constitutes one of the important features of the 
cropping of the region. It should be noted that each of the three 
survey's exhibits a good acreage of corn, either planted alone or with 
cowpeas or crimson clover. The Churchland area shows 264 acres; 
the Diamond Springs area, 225 acres; and the Onley area, 463 acres. 
Thus, at the proper time in the year, each of the districts makes 
