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30 BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY AND SOILS, 1934
variations in the soil, and in small areas erosion has removed all the
surface soil. The bodies of this soil contain some slick spots similar
to those in areas of Wilson very fine sandy loam.
The soil occupies slopes and knolls within smooth areas of the
Wilson soils. The slope ranges from 2 to 8 percent, and drainage is
excessive. All cultivated areas erode severely unless protected by
close-growing crops, and many of the abandoned-field pastures have
a plant cover of grasses and weeds, which is too thin to control erosion.
The native vegetation was grass.
Originally, the productivity of lthis soil was only slightly less
than that of Wilson very fine sandy loam, but now it is much less
and varies according to the extent of injury by erosion which, in
most places, is sufficient to make the soil unsuitable for the growing
of crops. Probably the best use for such land is pasture or meadow.
Nearly all the land has been cultivated at some time. Fields have
been abandoned until now only about one-fifth of the total area is
in cultivation, and on this productivity is low. Cotton occupies about
three-fifths of the cropped acreage; oats and sorgo most of the
rest. The average yields are probably about 80 pounds of lint
cotton, 10 bushels of oats, and 1 ton of sorgo forage to the acre.
On the least eroded fields the yields approximate those obtained on
Wilson very fine sandy loam. The hlnd is utilized largely as
abandoned-field pasture which has very low carrying capacity. In
a few areas, where the abandoned fields have been seeded and mowed
to control weeds, good stands of desirable pasture plants have been
obtained.
Crockett clay loam, eroded phase.-Crockett clay loam, eroded
phase, has a 3
to 5-inch surface soil of brown friable slightly acid
clay loam, which grades, through a thin transitional layer, into the
upper subsoil layer of brown noncalcareous compact clay mottled
with rusty red and some yellow and dark gray. This, in turn, grades
into yellow or mottled yellow and gray compact noncalcareous clay
at a depth of about 18 inches. Below a depth of about 3 feet is the
lower subsoil layer of dull-yellow calcareous compact clay containing
white concretions of calcium carbonate and streaks and spots
of black or rusty-brown iron concretions.
This eroded soil has the same sloping, eroded, and variable features
as has Crockett very fine sandy loam, rolling phase, from which
it differs in the heavier texture of the surface soil and in the slightly
darker and less red color of the surface soil and upper subsoil layer.
The slope ranges from 3 to 6 percent. Areas of this soil include some
slick spots, like those described under Wilson very fine sandy loam,
together with many small bodies of shallow Crockett very fine sandy
loam, rolling phase. In most areas much of the surface soil has been
removed by erosion.
Most of this soil occurs on slopes adjacent to areas of Wilson silt
loam and Wilson clay loam. Two of the largest and most typical
bodies are those near Neyland and Malloy School in the east-central
part of the county.
The productivity ranges from low to moderate, in proportion to
the degree of erosion and the length of time the land has been in
cultivation. About one-half of this land has been cropped but is
now retired from cultivation. At present less than one-fourth of
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Templin, E. H. (Edward Henry) & Marshall, R. M. (Richard Moon). Soil survey of Hunt County, Texas, book, February 1939; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth19778/m1/32/?q=tex-land: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.