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U. s. OEPARTNENi OF AGRICULTURE <br />NA TURAL~RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE <br />PHYSICAL PROPERTIES UFsUILs <br />Endnote -- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SOIL]--Continued <br />j. Noncelcareous looms and silt looms that are Tess thantU <br />percent ciay and sandy clay looms, sandy clays, end hemic <br />soil materiel. These soils are slightly erodible. Crops <br />can be groun if measures to control wind erosion are used. <br />6. Npncelcareous ioams and silt looms that are more than tU <br />percent C19Y and ^Onpd lparemua CiaY lOflmS that dre 1e 55 LhBn <br />35 percent clay. These soils are very slightly erodible. <br />Crops can be groun if ordinary measures to control wind <br />erosion are used. <br />7. Silts, noncalcareous silty clay ioams that are less than <br />3j percent ciay, and fibric soil material. These soils are <br />very siightlr erodible. Crops can be groun if ordinary <br />measures to control wind erosion ere used. <br />n. 'soils that are not subject to vind erosion because of <br />coarse fragments on the surface or because of surface <br />wetness. <br />PAGE d OF d <br />• Od('tl(58 <br />The WINO EROUIOILITY iNOEX is used in the vind erosion eouation IWE01. the index number indicates the <br />amount of soil lost in tons Per acre Der year. The range or vind erodiDilitr index numbers is 0 to 500. <br />