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44 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Tabor fine sandy loam, mound phase, occurs in many undulating
forested upland areas in the eastern part of the county. A large typical
area is 6 miles northeast of Terrell around Able Springs School.
The surface slope ranges from about 1/2 to 2 percent, and drainage is
slow but adequate for good productivity. Soil erosion is not rapid
in unprotected fields.
The fertility of Tabor fine sandy loam, mound phase, is only moderate,
and it is lowered under the prevailing system of farming. From
one-third to one-half of this land is in cultivation. About one-third
is used for Bermuda grass and native-grass pasture, and the rest is
woodland. The principal crops are cotton and corn, and cotton occupies
about one-half of the land in cultivation. Small acreages are
planted to cowpeas, peanuts, sweetpotatoes, sorgo for hay and sirup,
and market vegetables for local use. Many of the farmers plant
every third row in the cornfields to cowpeas. Acre yields are about
75 to 100 pounds of cotton lint and 10 bushels of corn. New land has
produced about one-third to one-half bale of cotton and about 20
bushels of corn to the acre, and similar yields are obtained in old fields
where green manure, barnyard manure, and commercial fertilizer are
used. The soil is suited for the production of some fruits and vegetables,
but in most places internal drainage is somewhat too slow for
ideal growing conditions for these crops.
Leaf fine sandy loam.-Leaf fine sandy loam is a smooth sandy
forested soil somewhat similar to Tabor fine sandy loam, mound phase,
and it differs from that soil chiefly in having a somewhat thinner surface
soil, being more gray in the subsoil, and occupying nearly flat old
stream terraces.
Between mounds in cultivated areas, the 4
to 6-inch upper part of
the surface soil is brownish-gray acid rather light fine sandy loam,
which grades into yellowish-gray strongly acid light fine sandy loam.
At a depth ranging from 6 to 18 inches and averaging about 12
inches, the sandy surface soil changes abruptly to an upper subsoil
layer of mottled red and gray strongly acid compact slowly pervious
dense clay. The red coloration of the subsoil decreases gradually
with depth, and, at a depth of about 30 inches, this material gives
way to gray noncalcareous tough heavy clay slightly mottled with
yellow. This grades into the parent material, which lies at a depth
ranging from 36 to 48 inches below the surface, consisting of gray
compact noncalcareous slightly sandy clay interbedded with more
sandy layers.
In virgin areas the topmost 3-inch layer of soil is grayish-brown
fine sandy loam. In some places where water stands, especially where
the surface soil is comparatively thin, the surface soil below a depth of
4 inches is light gray and is faintly splotched with brown.
In the sandy mounds the surface soil is pale-yellow loamy fine sand
to a depth ranging from 18 to 30 inches, and it grades into a friable
upper subsoil layer of reddish-yellow fine sandy clay, from 2 to 10
inches thick. This, in turn, grades into yellow dense clay mottled
with red and gray. In some depressions, areas of Leaf fine sandy
loam include small spots of Myatt loam. Small inclusions of Leaf
loam and Leaf very fine sandy loam are also made in mapping,
especially in the vicinity of Peeltown.
Leaf Ane sandy loam occupies most of the high flat stream terrace
in the southwestern corner of the county, known as Peeltown Flat.
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Templin, E. H. (Edward Henry) & Huckabee, J.W. (John Walter). Soil survey, Kaufman County, Texas, book, June 1940; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth19775/m1/46/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.