SOIL SURVEY OF THE OCALA AREA, FLORIDA. 
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thick and of good size. The forested areas are characteristic of open 
pine woods, there being no shrubby undergrowth. It supports a 
good sod of wire grass. 
As the lands are mostly remote from towns and railroads, their 
price is not high, probably ranging from $10 to $25 an acre, although 
most of the areas have been cleared and occupied as farms. 
The average results of mechanical analyses of samples of the 
soil and subsoil of the Gainesville fine sandy loam are given in the 
subjoined table: 
Mechanical analyses of Gainesville fine sandy loam. Nos. 260813-260814 from 
8 miles west of Wildwood (soil 0-8, subsoil 8-36 in.); Nos. 260821-260822 
from 1 mile north of Lecanto (soil 0-18, subsoil 18-36 in.). 
Number 
! | 
Descrip- Fine 
tion gravel 
Coarse 
sand 
Med¬ 
ium 
sand 
Fine 
sand 
1 Very 
fine 
j sand 
Silt 
Clay 
260813, 260821_ 
9R0S14 9f\0 S92 
Per ct. 
Soil_ 0.4 
Subsoil-. .2 
Per ct. 
3.1 
1.8 
Per ct. 
9.7 
6.! 
iPer ct. 
1 54.1 
36.3 
Per ct. 
22.5 
13.0 
Per ct. 
4.5 
8.7 
Per ct 
5.7 
33.9 
The following sample contained more than one-half of 1 per cent calcium 
carbonate (CaCOs) : No. 260814, 3 per cent. 
FELLOWSHIP CLAY LOAM. 
The Fellowship clay loam is a variable type of soil. It ranges 
from a clay loam to> clay, often having a surface covering 3 to 5 
inches deep of sand, loamy sand, or even sandy loam. Over the 
greater part of the type it consists of 4 or 5 inches of a clay loam, 
with some sand, varying in color from black to brown or brownish 
gray. The subsoil is a stiff, plastic clay, somewhat sandy in places, 
becoming heavier and more plastic with increase in depth. The sub¬ 
soil color ranges from black to bluish drab, becoming lighter drab 
with depth. In places it is almost a gray clay, very sticky and gum¬ 
bo-like. The clay contains small particles of light-colored sandy 
rock and possibly some fragments of limestone. In places there are 
small spots where the subsoil is exceedingly stony. There usually 
occur scattered upon the surface in small quantities fragments of 
angular or subangular, spongy-looking sandstone, ranging in size 
from small chips to fragments several inches in diameter. 
The Fellowship clay loam is of small extent, consisting of small 
areas on the high hammocks south and west of Ocala. It is typically 
