New Jersey for progressive farmers . Good roads prevail in the farming sections. ROADS Extensive Highway System.^The high quality of our roads, and the auto-mobile give rural life in New Jersey substantially all the advantages andopportunities of suburban life. Farmers in every section enjoy comfortand economy in travel, and accessibility to markets, shopping centers,churches and amusements. The State is covered with a network of 15,000miles of rural roads; it has .784 miles of surfaced roads per square mile ofarea, or nine times as much as the average for the United States. The Stateand its v
New Jersey for progressive farmers . Good roads prevail in the farming sections. ROADS Extensive Highway System.^The high quality of our roads, and the auto-mobile give rural life in New Jersey substantially all the advantages andopportunities of suburban life. Farmers in every section enjoy comfortand economy in travel, and accessibility to markets, shopping centers,churches and amusements. The State is covered with a network of 15,000miles of rural roads; it has .784 miles of surfaced roads per square mile ofarea, or nine times as much as the average for the United States. The Stateand its various agencies are constructing a highway system which will in-volve an expenditure of approximately $35,000,000. Only the best andmost durable types of roads are being laid down. These arteries of trafficare opening up the undeveloped sections, and creating prosperous farms andincreased values everywhere. Eleven SOUTH JERSEY INDICATING PRINCIPAL Soil Types1920 DEPARTMENl OFConservation »no DtvEuoPMtNT TRENTON. itlanlic Ci+y (j LEGEND LOAM E SANOV LOAM lY SANDY LOAMOAM LOAMY SAN a ©LOA ©GRAveilYSANOY L ©COAR5E 3ANSAND, LOAMFINE SANO ®RED OR MARLSANOY LOAM ©SANOY LOAMFIME SANOY ©WHITE 3AND;,LARCnON-A&niCULTURAL © ARCILYRALSHOUID RCMAIR IK FOREST* TIDE MARSH FRESH WATER MARSM30 Miles T^uelve SOUm JERSEY INDICATING PRINCIPAL CROP CENTER5AND RAILROAD FACILITIES 1920 department ofConservation ano Development TRENTON iJi^
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