SOIL SURVEY OF THE OCALA AREA, FLORIDA. IQ3 
branch lines of each road. These give good transportation facili¬ 
ties for both passengers and freight to both North and South. In 
addition, there are two new roads, the Ocala Northern, extending 
from Ocala to Palatka, giving a short route to the east coast, and 
the Ocala & Southwestern, reaching into the central part of the area 
from Ocala and Martel. There are also some logging railroads that 
are expected to be made permanent. 
The county roads are fast being improved to meet the present 
and future needs. A considerable mileage of clay surface or stone 
roads reaches out of Ocala in every direction. There is also a stone 
surface road connecting Dunnellon and Inverness. The making of 
hard roads is being extended, and they are planned to form parts 
of the important highways of the State. 
The general farm products meet with a ready sale in the sur¬ 
rounding towns, and, in fact, there is not enough produced to sup¬ 
ply the local demands, so that a large quantity is shipped in. Large 
quantities of grain and hay are shipped in to feed the working stock. 
The truck and citrus-fruit crops are shipped to northern markets 
and lumber and turpentine are sent to outside markets for these 
products. Most of the phosphate rock mined in the area is exported 
to foreign countries. 
CLIMATE. 
No extended climatological records have been kept within this 
area. Observations for short periods have been made at Ocala, 
Rockwell, and Inverness, but not long enough to obtain normals. 
The longest records available are those for Archer, which lies some 
distance away in the adjoining county to the north. The data given 
in the following tables have been taken from the Weather Bureau 
records for that station. The tables give the normal monthly, sea¬ 
sonal, and annual temperature and precipitation. These figures vary 
but little from those for the stations within the area for the short 
period the latter have been taken, and so may be taken as fairly 
representative of local conditions. 
