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TEXAS ALMANAC.-1945-1916.
(TEXAS PANHANDLE)
Principal ,
Soils of Texas
General Soil Map of Texas, Y
by Dr. W. T. Carter, Texas
Agricultural E x p e r iment
Station, College Station, Tex-
as, author of The Soils of N,
Texas, Experiment Station Bul-
letin No. 431. Soil designations
below refer to soil belt designations 1,
EAST TEXAS TIMBER BELT SOILS
KN: Kirvin-Norfolk Group. Reddish, light brown and gray with red to yellow
permeable to slowly permeable subsoils; clay and sandy clay origin. Cotton, corn,
feed crops, truck, fruits.
KSB: Kirvin-B6wie Group. Reddish, light brown to gray with red, yellow and
mottled subsoils; clay and sandy clay origin. Cotton, corn, feed crops, trucks, fruits.
LS: Lufkin-Susquehanna Group. Gray and light brown with dense red and gray
mottled, slowly permeable subsoils; of clay and sandy clay origin. Cotton, feed crops,
truck, timber.
SC: Segno-Caddo Group. Light brown and A: Alluvials. Black, red and gray soils along
gray with yellow and yellow mottled, permeable river bottoms with one large deposit between
to slowly permeable su bsoils; of clay and sandy Brazos and Colorado. Usually calcareous and
clay materials. Cotton, feed crops, truck, tim- friable with some acid soils. Cotton, corn, sugar
bers. cane, feed crops.
NK: Nacogdoches-Norfolk Group. Red to gray BLACKLAND PRAIRIE SOILS
with red and yellow, permeable to slowly perme- HW: Houston-Wilson Group. Black, dark gray
able subsoils; sandy clay and marl material, and occasionally brown with dark brown and gray
Cotton, truck, fruits, feed crops, timber. subsoils of limestone origin. Friable to tight soils.
A: Alluvial Soils. Red brown and dark soils Cotton, corn, oats, wheat, sorghums.
over sand and clay deposits along rivers. Cotton, WC: Wilson-Crockett Group. Black, dark and
feed crops, sorghum, hardwood timbers. brown, tight to friable soils with dark and gray
COAST PRAIRIE SOILS subsoils from usually calcareous base materials.
LE: Lake Charles-Edna Group. Heavy black, Cotton, feed crops, small grains.
dark gray and gray clays and sands with heavy A: Alluvial Soils. Black to brown soils in river
slowly permeable to impenetrable subsoils; of clay bottoms; friable, with calcareous clay base. Cot-
and marl parent materials. Cotton, rice, feed ton, corn, small grains, alfalfa and sorghums,
crops, truck, figs, native grasses. pecans.
HK: Hockley-Katy Group. Light brown to gray GRAND PRAIRIE SOILS
sandy, acid soils with dense gray, red and yellow DS: Denton-San Saba Group. Black to dark
subsoils; of heavy noncalcareous material. Native brown friable soils with dark gray, yellow and
grasses, rice, cotton, feed crops, truck, brown subsoils; of limestone and chalk interbedded
H: Harris Group. Gray to brown salt soils, parent materials. Cotton, corn, small grains, sor-
with dense clay base. Native grasses of the ghums, native grasses.
marsh prairies. A: Alluvial Soils. Black, dark brown and
G: Galveston Group. Gray, loose acid soils of brown soils in river bottoms, permeable, calcare-
yellow and gray sandy subsoil and substratum, out and friable, over calcareous clay substratum.
Truck crops, berries, grapes. Cotton, corn, small grains, feedstuffs, pecans,176
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