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BOIL SURVEY OF JACKSON COUNTY 
grown and a good catch is very difficult to obtain. From $150 
to $250 worth of tobacco an acre, from $100 to $150 worth of 
cucumbers, from eight to ten bushels of white beans, and from 
90 to 125 bushels of potatoes are some of the yields of special 
crops reported in favorable seasons. The special crops are sub¬ 
ject to frosts and total failures sometimes result from this cause 
as well as from dry weather. From one to three or four acres 
per farm is generally the limit of acreage where these special 
crops are grown, although on a few farms much larger acre¬ 
ages are grown. 
The most successful farmers on this soil raise a small acreage 
of special crops and for general crops, they grow mainly rye, 
corn or buckwheat and generally are able to grown enough oats 
for their own use. In some cases a three year rotation of rye 
or oats with clover first year, hay and pasture second year, corn 
third year is practiced. Where clover is seldom if ever grown 
and farm manure is scarce a portion of the land is allowed to 
lie fallow about one year in three. Very little commercial 
fertilizer is used except by some of the cucumber growers. To¬ 
bacco fields are usually heavily manured and farm manure is 
the main fertilizer used. 
BOONE FINE SAND 
(Poorly Drained Phase) 
In Sections 23, 26, 34, 35 in Town 22 North, range 3 AV, three 
or four miles south of Hatfield, there is an area of several square 
miles of low lying upland soil which has rather poor drainage, 
and which is separated from the typical Boone fine sand as a 
poorly drained phase. This soil is somewhat variable, but in 
the main, consists of a rather dark, medium to fine sand with 
a subsoil which is yellow or sometimes mottled. There is no 
shallow or heavy layer of clay in the subsoil, although sand¬ 
stone rock is sometimes found at three or four feet below the 
surface. In a few instances a small amount of sticky material 
was found in the lower depths. 
A part of this land is cultivated and gives fair yields, espe¬ 
cially during the drier years. 
There is another small area of this type lying in Sections 13 
and 24 about one and one-half miles east of Black River Falls. 
A considerable portion of this area is also under cultivation, 
