. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. The Bulletin. LOCATION AND CHARACTER OF THE SOIL USED FOR THESE TESTS. Edgecombe Farm.—This farm is in the coastal plain region and is located in Edgecombe County, about midway between the towns of Tarboro and Rocky Mount, and about two miles from Kingsboro, a station on the'Atlantic Coast Line Railway. The soil on which these tests were conducted was a sandy loam, with moderately fine sand, underlaid by a rather tenaceous sandy clay subsoil at a depth, generally, of from 8 to 12 inches. The subsoil
. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. The Bulletin. LOCATION AND CHARACTER OF THE SOIL USED FOR THESE TESTS. Edgecombe Farm.—This farm is in the coastal plain region and is located in Edgecombe County, about midway between the towns of Tarboro and Rocky Mount, and about two miles from Kingsboro, a station on the'Atlantic Coast Line Railway. The soil on which these tests were conducted was a sandy loam, with moderately fine sand, underlaid by a rather tenaceous sandy clay subsoil at a depth, generally, of from 8 to 12 inches. The subsoil is a moderately good sandy clay, such as is found under the larger portion. Fig. 1—Cotton grown at the Edgecombe Farm in the Nitrate of Soda Tests without fertilization. of the lands of the eastern part of the State. This type of soil responds very readily in remunerative crops to proper fertilization and cultivation, and represents a large and important part of the coastal plain formation, which comprises something like forty per cent of the total area of the State. It is the type of soil designated by the IN^ational Bureau of Soils as Norfolk fine sandy loam. Iredell Fai'm.—This farm, located in the Piedmont section of the State, lies about one and one-half miles northwest of the corpo- rate limits of Statesville, and is bisected by the Statesville and West- ern Division of the Southern Railway. The soil consists of a deep red tenaceous clay soil and subsoil, which is a type covering a large area of the Piedmont Plateau. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original North Carolina. Dept. of Agriculture. Raleigh : State Board of Agriculture
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