. Soils of southern New Jersey and their uses . , in rotation with corn, potatoes, and wheat, 11 to 2 tons per acre. Certain facts are worthy of particular notice in the study of thecropping uses made of the different soil types. 24 BULLETIN 1377. TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICUETrEE. In the case of potatoes, per cent of the entire Freehold areais given to that crop. Potatoes occupy per cent of the croppedarea of the Sassafras loam. Hay is second in area to potatoes, occupying 27 per cent of theentire area, but covering only per cent of the cropped area ofthe Sassafras loam.
. Soils of southern New Jersey and their uses . , in rotation with corn, potatoes, and wheat, 11 to 2 tons per acre. Certain facts are worthy of particular notice in the study of thecropping uses made of the different soil types. 24 BULLETIN 1377. TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICUETrEE. In the case of potatoes, per cent of the entire Freehold areais given to that crop. Potatoes occupy per cent of the croppedarea of the Sassafras loam. Hay is second in area to potatoes, occupying 27 per cent of theentire area, but covering only per cent of the cropped area ofthe Sassafras loam. Wheat is the only small-grain crop grown to any significant ex-tent. It covers 5 per cent of the entire area, but occupies j)ercent of the cropped area of the Sassafras loam. These departures from the normal of all types indicate a tendencyto use as large an area of the Sassafras loam as is compatible withgood methods of farming for the growing of potatoes. Corn, wheat,and hay are grown in a regular rotation with potatoes, the succession. Fig. 12.—Winter wheat on Sassafras loam, near Freehold, N. J. Yield 25 bushels to35 bushels per acre on land heavily fertilized for potatoes. and the duration of the crop occupation with each crop varyingslightly with individual preferences. The strong tendency to keepthe land in potatoes or corn is shown by the slight excess of the per-centages in these crops on the Sassafras loam and the small deficiencyof the percentage in hay compared with the standard figures for thearea. In other words, this dominant and desirable soil type is keptin high-paying, cash crops for as much of the time as is possible inaccordance with experience. It should be stated that in central Monmouth County a specialvariet}T of Irish potato, the American Giant or long stock, isgrown. For this reason there is no opportunity to make any directcomparison of the local yields with those obtained in other localities SOILS OF SOUTHERN FEW JERSEY AXD THEIR USES. 25 where
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