. Soils of southern New Jersey and their uses . Fig. 6.—Harvesting timothy hay on reclaimed Tide marsh, near Woodbury, N. J. situations desirable for certain forms of orcharding. In easternMonmouth County such areas occur with soil conditions otherwisefavorable to agriculture. Some of the finest orchards in the regionare located on these rolling to decidedly hilly lands. In other caseswhere the land is too broken or danger from destructive erosion istoo great, the land is either in forest or occupied as pastures. A second class of lands within the dominant agricultural regionwhich has escaped
. Soils of southern New Jersey and their uses . Fig. 6.—Harvesting timothy hay on reclaimed Tide marsh, near Woodbury, N. J. situations desirable for certain forms of orcharding. In easternMonmouth County such areas occur with soil conditions otherwisefavorable to agriculture. Some of the finest orchards in the regionare located on these rolling to decidedly hilly lands. In other caseswhere the land is too broken or danger from destructive erosion istoo great, the land is either in forest or occupied as pastures. A second class of lands within the dominant agricultural regionwhich has escaped the intensive occupation common to the regioncomprises such soils as from their position or texture are commonlywaterlogged. Along many of the minor drainage ways the sluggish stream courseis bordered on one or both sides by lands subject to periodical over- 12 BULLETIN 677, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. flow. Such areas are quite commonly grown up to water-lovingtrees, shrubs, and vines, and their only present use is to furnishscanty pas
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