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Title: Soils of southern New Jersey and their uses
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Bonsteel, Jay A. (Jay Allan), b. 1873
Subjects: Soils
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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ly known, ironstone.Some gravel occurs throughout the region, either in beds underlyingthe soils or scattered in varying amount through the soil and subsoil. There is a sufficient variety in the soil-forming material to giverise to a number of distinct soil types and series. These have beenmapped and described in the soil surveys which have been made inthe region, and a detailed account • can be found in the differentreports.1 Therefore only a brief summary of the different soil serieswill be given. Lahewood series.—The surface soils of the types in the Lakewoodseries are white in color and the subsoils orange yellow. The seriesoccupies rolling to nearly level uplands in the Atlantic slope and 1 Field Operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1901, Soil Survey of the Salem Area, N. J.;idem, 1902, Soil Survey of the Trenton Area, N. J.; idem, 1913, Soil Survey of the Free-hold Area, N. J.; and idem, 1915, Soil Survey of the Camden Area, N. J. BULLETIN 677, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
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Fig. 3.—Geographic Provinces of Now Jersey. SOILS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND THEIR USES. 7 drainage is in many places excessive. The Lakewood sand, fine sand,and gravelly sandy loam have been mapped. The soils of this seriesare cultivated to only a small extent. Sassafras series.—The surface soils of the Sassafras series are dis-tinguished by a brown or yellowish-brown color and the subsoils area deep )^ellow or reddish yellow. In many places a distinct bed ofgravel or of coarse sand and gravel underlies these soils at a depthranging from 2^ to 5 feet below the surface. The series is found inall parts of southern New Jersey, in somewhat scattered occurrencesin the Atlantic slope, but especially well developed along the Dela-ware River and in the plain which extends between Trenton andXew Brunswick. Most of the types in this series are well drained.The types of the series include the Sassafras coarse sand, sand, loamysand, fine sand, gravelly sanely loam, coarse sandy loam, sandy l

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