The Brunswick news., 1910-01-30
REPORT A VERY
FAVORABLE OnE
WHAT HUGH H. BENNETT, GOV.
EMINENT EXPERT, SAYS OF
GLYNM COUNTY.
Soil is Suitable for Farming of All
Kinds and is Especially Adapted to
Certain Products-FuIl Report win
Re VoIuminous One.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 29-The
U. S. department. Of agriculture will
socn issue circular No. 21, which is
q regort by Hugh H. Bennett, of the
bureau Of soils, on preliminary soil
survey made for the purpose OF de-
termining the character of the soils
in the vicinity of Brunswick, Glynn
county, Georgia, and OF ascertaining
their crop adaptations and capabili
ties. The descriptions contained. in
this circular of the various soils
found in the area surveyed will be
valuable as a guide in identifying the
important soils of the county and in
directing their proper utilization. The
following is a brief summary of the
report:
"Glynn county is situated in the
southeastern part of the state, entire
ly within the Atlantic coastal plain.
: 1t has water frontage of about TWEEN
ty miles along the Atlantic ocean and
an inland extent of approximately
county seat, is about fifty seven miles
nearly due north from Jacksonville,
Fla, and sixty-nine miles a little west
of south from Savannah, Ga. The area
of the county is 46S square miles, or
299,520 acres.
geographically the mainland por
ticn of Glynn county Is plain of
marked eyenness, the surface being
interrupted only by slight hammocks
with intervening shallow depressions,
occasional very low sand ridges and
streamway depressions, which in a
generanzed view hardly affect the
fiat appearance of the whole coun-
try.
"The population of the county in
1900 was 14,317, and of these 9,081
lived in Brunswick The rural popu-
lation is very much scattered.
TRANSPORTATION facilities are excel
lent. Three important railroad sys-
tens enter Brunswick-the Southern,
the Atlantic Coast Line, and the At
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic. Fast
refrigerator express freight service
to northern markets is available.
Brunswick is also an important sea-
port, having fine deep water harbor
and good docking facilities.
The dirt roads average very good
and are being improved by sand-clay
sulfacing and the use Cf shells.
The upland soils OF Giynn county
consist of materials that were washed
down from the higher Piedmont sec
ton of the country to the west and
deposited in an ancient sea that com
pletely covered this portion of the
coastal plain region. These sediments,
subjected to the action of waves and
tides, were reworked and assorted in
TO various grades Of sands and sandy
loans and subsequently lifted above
tide level to be still further altered
by erosion, the growth and decay OF
vegetation, and chemical change. The
uplifted ocean 1ocr has been cut
through and more or less dissected by
streams. Poor drainage conditions
have favored the accumulation of dark
colored vegetable matter in the soils
occupying the slight depressions,' suf-
ticienlly in places to give rise to
deep, rich muck. The sutsoils in
such places are usually light gray or
mottled in color, owing to imperfect
aeration. The heavy soils of the
dra1nageway and old tidewater de-
pressions have been formed by the
deposition Of silt and clay carried in
suspension by the waters cf local
streams and by inland tides mingled
with the muddied waters from inter
ior streams In places there is en-
countered clayey soil which represents
the finer sediments laid down in deep
or quiet marine waters, as in case
of the subsoil of the Coxville fine
sandy loan.
'The soils of the river bottoms are
strictly alluvial in origin, having been
formed by deposition of SILT clay, and
sand from stream-water bearing soil
material derived principally from the
red lands of the Piedmont These
lands represent the most recently
formed soils of the county: in fact.
they are still in coufA of formation.
being added to by each successive
overflow.
THE pcorly.drained dsrk-gay to