SOIL SURVEY OF PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA. 
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Cowpeas and sorghum sown together make a nutritious feed. 
Hairy vetch has been successfully grown, the best results being ob¬ 
tained when broadcasted with cowpeas. 
Chufas, for fattening hogs, grow more satisfactorily than the 
peanut, which does not always fill out unless limed. Cassava is an¬ 
other good feed for hogs, and it seems it should find greater favor 
with those who produce pork for the market. Velvet beans produce 
a large quantity of vine hay and are grown to' some extent. They 
do especially well on the Norfolk fine sand, and besides affording an 
abundance of feed, are an excellent soil renovator. Japan clover is 
another leguminous plant which does well locally, and besides mak¬ 
ing a fine quality of hay, affords good pasturage. 
These and other forage crops can be cheaply produced and 
should be an incentive for the raising of dairy and beef cattle. Dairy 
farming should prove a profitable business in Pinellas County. The 
only existing dairies, located near the larger towns, do not begin to 
supply the demand, especially during the winter months, when it is 
greatest. There are some Jersey and Guernsey cows in the herds. 
Sweet milk finds a ready market at 12^4 cents to 14 cents a quart, 
and butter brings from 40 to 50 cents a pound. 
Large tracts of land are owned or controlled by companies and 
land syndicates which place their holdings on the market in tracts 
varying from 10 to 30 acres. The price ranges from $25 to $75 an 
acre for Portsmouth fine sand (truck soils) to $50 to $150 an acre 
for unimproved Norfolk fine sand (fruit land). 
So much depends upon the proper selection of the type of soil 
best suited and adapted to certain crops that it behooves the intend¬ 
ing purchaser personally to inspect the land he contemplates buying, 
whether it be for the growing of citrus fruits or for trucking. Drain¬ 
age is the main thing to be considered, and this should be deter¬ 
mined, not during the dry months, but when the rainy period is at 
its height. The Norfolk fine sand and Leon fine sand, rolling phase, 
are the only soils that have adequate natural drainage. In the bet¬ 
ter drained situations of the Portsmouth fine sand crops may be 
grown successfully without the aid of artificial drainage, but the 
greater part of the type must be drained to produce crops success¬ 
fully. The Parkwood, Plummer, and Fellowship soils can not be 
utilized in their present condition. 
