Anne Arundel county . Fig. i.—view showing farm and woodland along south FlG. 2.—VIEW OF WATERMELON PATCH, SHOWING FERTILITY OF POTOMAC SAND, NORTH OF MAGOTHY river. 11 Maeyland Geological Survey 161 The Agricultural Conditions Anne Arundel has been an agricultural county since its first and corn were grown by the Indians before the white man to the splendid markets close at hand the agriculture of the countyhas changed radically in the last 25 years from general farming totrucking. The Chesapeake and its tidal tributaries furnish excellentshipping facilit
Anne Arundel county . Fig. i.—view showing farm and woodland along south FlG. 2.—VIEW OF WATERMELON PATCH, SHOWING FERTILITY OF POTOMAC SAND, NORTH OF MAGOTHY river. 11 Maeyland Geological Survey 161 The Agricultural Conditions Anne Arundel has been an agricultural county since its first and corn were grown by the Indians before the white man to the splendid markets close at hand the agriculture of the countyhas changed radically in the last 25 years from general farming totrucking. The Chesapeake and its tidal tributaries furnish excellentshipping facilities. The southern part of the county has a variety of soils, some of whichare well adapted to the growing of truck, but the poor railroad facilitiesof that section have hindered the development of the trucking crops are most largely grown there. In the northern part the truck-growing business has had a remarkabledevelopment, due to the nearness of large markets to which products maybe hauled by wagon, the adaptation of the soil to the purpose, and theunfail
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