SOIL SURVEY OF THE OCALA AREA, FLORIDA. 233 
somewhat dissected by gullies or ravines. The high hammock areas 
have good surface drainage. However, the subsoil is close and im¬ 
pervious and much of the land is kept wet by seepage. 
The material is largely of residual origin, derived from the 
weathering of rock probably consisting of limestone and sandstone. 
The low hammock areas support a hardwood growth consisting 
of live oaks and water oaks of large size, with hickory, magnolia, 
and some other trees. The higher land is mostly forested with long- 
leaf pine and with sweet gum in the open places. The ravines in the 
high hammock areas have a hardwood growth, and originally all 
these higher lands supported a hardwood growth. The pine trees 
here stand thick and grow very tall. 
The low hammock lands are not in cultivation. In the past there 
were some orange groves on them, but since the freeze of 1894-95 
they have been abandoned. Areas in the high hammocks are cleared 
and cultivated to the general farm crops. Average yields are ob¬ 
tained. Corn and oats do the best. Broom sedge takes the old fields. 
Some of the land was in orange groves, but these were abandoned 
after the freeze and the land allowed to revert to forest, the growth 
now consisting mainly of second-growth longleaf pine and some 
shortleaf pine. 
The average results of mechanical analyses of samples of the 
soil and subsoil are given in the accompanying table: 
Mechanical analyses of Fellowship fine sandy loam. Nos. 260841-260842 from 
1 mile west of Fellozoship (soil 0-8, subsoil 8-36 in.); Nos. 260843- 
260844 from 2 miles north of Leroy (soil 0-10, subsoil 10-36 in.) ; 
Nos. 260845-260846 from 1 r A miles north of York (soil 0-12, 
subsoil 12-36 in.); Nos. 260847-260848- from 6 miles north 
of Coleman (soil 0-10, subsoil 10-36 in.). 
Number 
Descrip¬ 
tion 
Fine 
gravel 
Coarse 
sand 
Med¬ 
ium 
sand 
Fine | 
sand 
... 
Very- 
fine 
sand 
Silt 
Clay 
, 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
Per ct 
260841, 260843, 
260845, 260847_ 
Soil_ 
0.4 
5.2 
12.9 
52.7 
18.9 
5.4 
4 5 
260842, 260844, 
260846, 260848— 
Subsoil— 
.2 
3.1 
8.2 
35.4 
14.6 
4.1 
34.1 
FELLOWSHIP CLAY. 
The surface soil of the Fellowship clay consists of not more than 
4 or 5 inches of sand, loamy sand, or sandy loam of black color in 
