. Soils of southern New Jersey and their uses . thegrowing of a tilled crop. Asparagus ranks next to these crops inacreage, while the other truck crops are found in subordinate thoughimportant acreages. As in the Thorofare area, the Irish potato crop is decidedly ofminor importance upon the sandy soils. SOILS OF SOUTHEEX NEW JERSEY AXD THEIR USES. 53 It is probable that the grain crops would have been recorded inconsiderably greater area if the survey had been made earlier in theyear, since rye is very commonly grown as a winter cover crop, eitherto be turned under as a green manure or to be c
. Soils of southern New Jersey and their uses . thegrowing of a tilled crop. Asparagus ranks next to these crops inacreage, while the other truck crops are found in subordinate thoughimportant acreages. As in the Thorofare area, the Irish potato crop is decidedly ofminor importance upon the sandy soils. SOILS OF SOUTHEEX NEW JERSEY AXD THEIR USES. 53 It is probable that the grain crops would have been recorded inconsiderably greater area if the survey had been made earlier in theyear, since rye is very commonly grown as a winter cover crop, eitherto be turned under as a green manure or to be cut as a forage general the small grains are neither suited to production upon thesoils of this locality nor able to compete in acreage value with thetruck crops, corn, or alfalfa, so that the area of the more sandy soilsdevoted to them is small. The section immediately around Swedesboro furnishes a sharpcontrast in this respect to the soils in the vicinity of Woodstown. Inthat locality the Sassafras loam and sandy loam predominate and. Fig. 27.—Cultivating asparagus on the Sassafras coarse sandy loam, near Swedesboro, the small grains, chiefly wheat, are extensively and profitably influence of the soil upon the character of cropping is clear. The Sassafras coarse sandy loam dominates the area, forming cent of the acreage tabulated. In consequence the crop occupa-tion of this type does not differ materially from that shown by thepercentages for the entire area. The wide use of this soil for grow-ing a variety of truck crops is demonstrated by the fact that 10different crops are encountered on the type and that truck cropsoccupy per cent of its entire cropped area. A slight preferencefor this type for asparagus culture is shown. (Fig. 27.) The de-sirability of this soil for truck-crop production is well shown by thefact that more than 96 per cent of its area is used for some form ofcropping, while truck crops occupy a greater area than all ot
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