Soil Survey of the Woodland Area, California |
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acre adapted alfalfa alkali salts almonds apricots Arbuckle gravelly barley bodies Cache and Putah Cache Creek cent clay loam Coarse Medium Coast Range Mountains color Colusa basins Colusa County compact dairy dark-brown deciduous deposited depth Description drainage drained dry farming Dunnigan clay elevated extensive favorable feet flat flood following table gives foothills free from alkali frequently friable gives the results grain crops Grand Island gravelly sandy loam grown irrigation Knights Landing light-brown loam consists loam or clay lower material Mechanical analyses Medium Fine gravel moisture Number overflow pasture plowed production Putah Creek region results of mechanical ridges sacks Sacramento River Sacramento silty clay Sacramento Valley sand season slopes sloughs soil and subsoil soil type strata streams sugar beets surface topography type occurs underlain usually valley plain wheat and barley Willows clay adobe Winters Woodland area yields Yolo and Colusa Yolo Basin Yolo clay Yolo County
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Page 33 - Number. Description. Fine gravel. Coarse sand. Medium sand. Fine sand. Very fine sand. Silt. Clay.
Page 22 - and is easily worked. It is a strong, productive soil and good farms are the rule on the type. It supports a fine growth of grass and gives good yields of the general farm crops. Its value is high as compared with that of the surrounding soils. Results of mechanical analyses of samples of the soil and subsoil are given in the following table : Mechanical Analyses of Upshur Silt Loam. Dekalb Silty Clay Loam. The surface soil of the Dekalb silty clay loam, to a depth of 4 to 8 inches, consists of a...
Page 34 - Description Fine gravel Coarse sand Medium sand Fine sand Very fine sand Silt Clay Percent 0.1 Percent 0.4 Percent Per cent 2.r, Per cent Per cent 60.4 Percent 20.5 162317 Soil 0.6 103318...
Page 27 - The following table gives the average results of mechanical analyses of the fine earth of the soil and subsoil of this type : Mechanical Analyses of Dekalb Silt Loam.
Page 45 - ... crops. The following table gives the average results of mechanical analyses of the soil and subsoil of this type : Mechanical analyses of Dunkirk fine sand.