File:Soils of southern New Jersey and their uses (1918) (14587546268).jpg

Identifier: soilsofsouthernn677bons (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ON»>0* ca w iohh 2 «o CN i—l ■* CO OS ^SONNOOiO — — co CO CN CN X 0C C C C ^CNtdd-^-^T-iaS-cd c co -* ■* co cn cn ^h cn oc co s CN* o i.o 3 I 5 ct-o £ -j -— 1 1 r> .- ag i s 1 i co > c: V c- £ V y > Z V b — c c!e E- • -j - : c 5 =s X. > 1 :— E SOILS OF SOUTHERN NEW JEESEY AND THEIR USES. 21 The character of the agriculture of the locality is easily seenfrom the table of crop occupation. Hay and pasture, corn, wheat,and potatoes occupy 85.5 per cent of the total land area. Adding tothese crops the areas in fruit crops . and those occupied by farm-steads, the total is 94.2 per cent of the area, leaving only 5.8 per centof the area occupied by other crops, of which the largest singleacreage is that of Lima beans. (Figure 7.) In fact, the other mis-cellaneous crops of the area cover only 1.2 per cent of its totalacreage. It is at once evident that the Sassafras loam, occupying 87.6 percent of the total land area, dominates the cropping system. In fact,
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 7.—Bush Lima beans for canning, on Sassafras loam, near Freehold, N. J. the area was selected for mapping because it gave an unusually goodopportunity for the study of this, type and its influence upon cropsystems. It was evident from a reconnoissance of southern New Jerseythat the Sassafras loam was of leading importance in the productionof corn, wheat, hay, and potatoes not only in Monmouth Countybut generally wherever it occurs in bodies of any size. Thus, inMercer, Middlesex, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, andCumberland counties this soil is almost universally used over thegreater part of its extent for the growing of these crops. Figures8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 show the high state of cultivation and the pro-ductiveness of this soil when planted to these crops. In all locali- 22 BULLETIN 617, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. ties where it is found in New Jersey it constitutes the standard soiltype for this class of farming. In Monmouth County the speciali-

Note About Images