. Bulletin. 16 BULLETIN 46, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. light fanning. The sand is essentially an early truck soil. It is especially adapted to watermelons, beans, and rye, but is too light for the profitable production of heavy farm crops. The clay loam has the smallest representation of any of the Wickham soils, but is the strongest soil of the series and is especially suited to corn, grasses, wheat, and oats. Congaree series.—The soils and subsoils of the Congaree series are brown to reddish brown, there being comparatively little change in texture, structure, and color from the surfac
. Bulletin. 16 BULLETIN 46, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. light fanning. The sand is essentially an early truck soil. It is especially adapted to watermelons, beans, and rye, but is too light for the profitable production of heavy farm crops. The clay loam has the smallest representation of any of the Wickham soils, but is the strongest soil of the series and is especially suited to corn, grasses, wheat, and oats. Congaree series.—The soils and subsoils of the Congaree series are brown to reddish brown, there being comparatively little change in texture, structure, and color from the surface downward. Occasion- ally grayish and yellowish mottling is encountered in the subsoil of the poorly drained areas. These soils are developed in the over- flowed first bottoms of the streams of the Piedmont region and in similar positions in the Coastal Plains along streams issuing from the Piedmont. The material is derived from the soils of the Piedmont region, with some admixture of Appalachian material, and in the Coastal Plains a slight mingling of Coastal Plains material. The soils are very productive, but are usually poorly drained, and crops are sometimes damaged by overflows. Extensive areas are under cultiva- tion to corn, oats, and forage crops; in the southern part of the State to cotton, and still farther south to sugar cane. The loam is well adapted to corn and grasses, and, where drainage is adequate, to wheat and oats. It produces an excellent natural pas- turage for summer grazing of cat- tle, and large yields of corn are secured without fertilizer. The fine sandy loam usually lies at slightly higher elevations than the Con- garee loam. It is adapted to corn, oats, and watermelons.' Cumberland series.—The surface soils are brown to yellowish brown in color, while the subsoils are yellow to reddish yellow. The series comprises high terrace soils in the Limestone region of the South. Many of the larger streams traversing the Limestone region formerly flowed a
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