Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . at,peas, beans, clover and potatoes. The soils of light texture, known asfine sand and sandy loams, are also well adapted to potatoes, beets andall tuber and root crops, and are also extensively used for the early truckcrops, such as spinach, lettuce, early potatoes, early peas, etc. Some ofthe very lightest sands, such as are found in certain parts of Florida, areespecially adapted to the growing of pineapples. In general, the poma-ceous fruits, such as apples and pears, will do w
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . at,peas, beans, clover and potatoes. The soils of light texture, known asfine sand and sandy loams, are also well adapted to potatoes, beets andall tuber and root crops, and are also extensively used for the early truckcrops, such as spinach, lettuce, early potatoes, early peas, etc. Some ofthe very lightest sands, such as are found in certain parts of Florida, areespecially adapted to the growing of pineapples. In general, the poma-ceous fruits, such as apples and pears, will do well on fairly heavy soils, PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL oo while the stone fruits, such as peaches, cherries and plums, succeed betteron soils that are lighter in texture and better drained. In fact, peacheswill often succeed admirably on shaly ridges and mountains in the Pied-mont Plateau. Texture Affects Tillage.—Soil texture so influences the cost of tillagethat it often determines the crop to be grown. Crops that require a greatdeal of tillage and hand work, such as sugar beets, are more economically. The Ease of Seed-bed Preparation Depeni ( onditi<»; grown on soils of light texture, because of the greater ease of weeding andtillage. Even though these light soils under intensive cultivation mayrequire considerable expenditure for fertilizers, the additional cost thusentailed is generally more than offset by the saving in labor. Structure of the Soil.—The structure of the soil pertains to thearrangement of the soil particles within the body of the soil in much thesame way that the arrangement of the bricks in a building determinesthe style of architecture. In all soils of fine texture it is good soil manage-ment to strive to obtain a granular structure. This consists of a groupingof the soil particles into small groups or granules. A good illustration of 1 Courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y. From Soils, by Fletrher. 56 SUCCESSFUL FARMING a granul
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