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HOW TO USE THE SOIL SURVEY REPORT
T HIS SURVEY of Cherokee County will
help you plan the kind of farming that
will protect your soils and provide good
yields. It describes the soils; shows their
location on a map; and tells what they will
do under different kinds of management.
Find Your Farm on the Map
In using this survey, start with the soil
map, which consists of the 79 sheets bound
in the back of this report. These sheets, if
laid together, make a large photographic
map of the county as it looks from an
airplane. You can see woods, fields, roads,
rivers, and many other landmarks on
this map.
To find your farm or ranch on the large
map, use the index to map sheets. This is
a small map of the county on which num-
bered rectangles have been drawn to show
where each sheet of the large map is located.
When you have found the map sheet for
your farm, you will notice that boundaries
of the soils have been outlined, and that
there is a symbol for each kind of soil. All
areas marked with the same symbol are the
same kind of soil, wherever they appear on
the map.
Suppose you have found on your land an
area marked with the symbol Ac. You learn
the name of the soil this symbol represents
by looking at the map legend. The symbol
Ac identifies Amite fine sandy loam.
Learn About the Soils on Your Farm
Amite fine sandy loam and all the other
soils mapped are described in the section,
Descriptions of the Soils. Soil scientists, as
they walked over the fields and through the
woodlands, described and mapped the soils,
dug holes and examined surface soils andsubsoils; measured slopes with a hand level;
noted differences in growth of crops, weeds,
brush, or trees; and, in fact, recorded all the
things about the soils that they believed
might affect their suitability for farming.
As they mapped the soils, the scientists
talked with farmers and others who work
with soils. Then they placed the soil in a
management group and in a land-capability
group. A management group is a group of
similar soils that need and respond to about
the same kind of management. A land-
capability group consists of one or more
management groups; it shows the uses that
can be made of the soil, and the kind and
amount of managements needed to protect
the soil and to obtain useful crops and other
plants.
Amite fine sandy loam is in management
group 1. Turn to the section, Use and Man-
agement of Soils, and read what is said
about soils of group 1. You will want to
study the table which tells you how much
you can expect to harvest from Amite fine
sandy loam under two levels of management.
Make a Farm Plan
For the soils on your farm or ranch, com-
pare your yields and farm practices with
those given in this report. Look at your
fields for signs of runoff and erosion. Then
decide whether or not you need to change
your methods. The choice, of course, must
be yours. This survey will aid you in plan-
ning new methods, but it is not a plan of
management for your farm or any other
farm in the county.
If you find that you need help in farm
planning, consult the local representative of
the Soil Conservation Service or the county
agricultural agent. Members of the staff of
your State agricultural experiment station
and others familiar with farming in your
county will also be glad to help you.This publication on the soil survey of Cherokee County, Texas, is a cooperative con-
tribution from the-
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
TEXAS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25. D). C.
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Mowery, Irvin C. Soil Survey: Cherokee County, Texas, book, 1959; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth130207/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.