The Brunswick news., 1910-01-30
GOVERNMENT EXPERT
WHO INSPECTED COUNTY
MAKES LENGTHY REPORT
black lands of high organic matter
content are called 'Porthmouth soils
(named for Portsmouth, Va, where


(named for Portsmouth, Va, where
these soils were first mapred); the
.5oiii,- drained gray 10 nearly white deep
sandy lands of low humus content
are classed as Amelia, the gray to
dark-gra types underlaln by plastic
clay Of mcttled yellow and red color
belong to the Coxville series; and the
river bottom lands belong to the Con-
earee series.
The Portsmouth loam is very fer
tile, and when drained can be easily
made valuable, productive soil. 1t
is especially adapted to cabbage, eel
cry, cnicns, tomatoes, and strawber-
ries of the truck crops, and to corn,
cats, cowpeas, and velvet beans of
the general farm crops. Irish pota-
toes, would likely do quite Well, but
should be preceded by several other
crops following an application of lime.
as the crop seems to prefer a neutral
or acid soil Both this crop and to-
matoes do well on new land, leaving
it in good condition for celery and
lettuce. Fer the two last mentioned
crops the depth to clay should be at
least inches.
"The Portsmouth fine sand was Ell
countered in areas ranging from small
patches to bodies of ten or more
acres in extent in several directions
from Brunswick. 1t occurs principally
in fiat areas having rather poor drain
age-a condition due to the slight de-
preston of its surface below the level
of the surrounding country.
"On account of its moist nature and
adaptability to sub irrigation, much of
the Portsmouth fine sand is well suited
to the production of celery. Lettuce,
Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, cab
bage, turnips, onions, strawberries,
corn, sugar cane, peanuts, and forage
crops can also be successfully grown.
The soil should be lined at the rate
cf about $500 to 1000 pounds per
acre. .A1,er a year or two of cultiva-
ton green or partly matured vege-
tation, for instance, cowpeas, should
be plowed under to supply humus.
"The Portsmouth clay consists of a
black sandy clay, underlain at 3 to
/ inches by a. very stiff, tenacious,
sticky black clay which extends to
q depth of at least feet. At various
depths in the subsoil there Is some
times a change Of color to yellowlsh
or greenish yellow.
/ .s,TI,1 n1oxy r,oC or1nn1yn-
tered five or six miles northwest OF
Brunswick. It occurs In stream old
drainage or sea arm depressions
usually as comparatively narrow
strips. Mari was found underlying an
area of this soil at depth ranging
from about Is to "a inches.
"By turning under vegetation and
coarse barnyard manure, the struc-
ture of the soil can be improved mark
edly and cultivation thereby made
much more feasible. Lime also would
tie used to advantage as means OF
securing a greater degree of friabil-
ity.
Excellent crops of corn, forage, and
probably oats and short staple cot
ton, can be secured from this land
without the use of fertilizer, except
possibly moderate applications of
phosphoric acid as a stimulant to crop
maturity. Vegetables like olzra and
onions would do well. An initial ap-
Dlication of 1 IL to 2 tons of burnt
lume or 3 tons of ground limerick
would increase the productiveness of
this lanu.
This soil was found hest developed
west of Brunswick in the vicinity OF
Avoca Villa. 1t is fine trucking
soil, being particularly adapted to to-
matoes, English peas, cabbage, cauli-
! flower, lettuce, radishes, asparagus,
irish pola,.es, and sweet potatoes.
/ "Subirrigation can be successfully
practiced, especially where the hard
pan layer is not nearer the surface
Than fifteen inches, and therefore the
type is admirably adapted to the pro-
duction of celery. Thing for subirri-
CATION should he laid at derth of
| Is to IS inches.
NJ NhS up1iA0 oOilo IAAS HAo3NiAe~
fine sand is by far the most extensive
type. 1t represents the wide stretches
,Dof piney woods land. Frequently the
pine, as we'll as the undergo with of
palmetto are of a somewhat scrubby
growth. Hickory is found here and
there over comparatively small areas.
Each areas are locally styled hickory
hammock and are considered more
productive than the average of the
tyre, being especially adapted to the
pecan nut and scuppernOng grapes.
"The Amelia fine sand consists CT
light-gray to almost white loose, in
coherent fine sandy, averaging many
feet in depth. A brownish feebly ce-
mented hardpan of valuable thickness
may he encountered anywhere from
the surface to depth of three feet,
but in the average Of the type this
stratum Is wanting.
Very little of the type is under
cultivation. The only practical meth
cd of handling this sill without irri
CATION is to turn under green crops,
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