Ordinarily black loam soils, sandy loam soils, sandy soils, humus soils and the volcanic ash soils of the West are made sufficiently fine without great labor.
Even on sandy soils a good growth will be obtained when these have been fertilized and sufficient moisture is present.
Such a condition, caused by alternate freezing and thawing, does not occur on sandy soils.
It does best in clay loam, and worst in sandy soils.
In Georgia, Alabama, and Florida light, sandy soils, when properly fertilized and worked, make good crops.
On light, sandy soils a fairly good crop may be made, but on such soils, wilt and root-knot are dangerous foes.
The usual way of mending roads which run over loose sandy soils is to cover the surface with tough clay or mix the clay and sand together.
This condition is more liable to be found on dry, sandy soils, and where the roadbed is subject to the direct rays of the sun, and where the winds sweep off all the binding material from the surface.
On the dry, sandy soils I put the macadam six inches deep; this depth was applied to about six miles of road.
Since the larvæ feed on the roots of grasses in sandy soils, it is easy to locate the feeding ground of the pest and plant it to cultivated crops which destroy the grasses and therefore the larvæ.
Two shrubby species do not attain a greater height than four or five feet; these grow in sandy soils, or among rocks exposed to sun and air.
Wherever the pest is found, it is more injurious in heavy than in sandy soils.
Soils composed of the above materials: Sands or Sandy Soils.
Its presence helps light, sandy soils to hold more water and to better pump water from below, while it helps close, heavy soils to better take in the water which falls on their surface.
It is for this reason that strong loams and clay soils absorb and hold three times as much water as sandy soils do, while peaty or humus soils absorb a still larger proportion.
A cleaner, better grade of white onions can generally be produced on light or sandy soils than on muck or clay loams.
Sandy soils, if not too subject to drought, may be fitted for this plant by the addition of organic matter.
This being so, it is highly advisable, in the case of light or sandy soils, not to follow such a practice, but to plough the manure directly in.
One of the benefits of ploughing-in green crops on sandy soils is undoubtedly due to this fact; the addition of farmyard manure having also a similar effect.
In clay soils it is probable, therefore, that nearly all the nitrification goes on in the surface layer; in sandy soils it may take place to a greater depth.
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