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( 13. Olney-Vona area <br />Deep, nearly level to moderately sloping, well drained soils that <br />formed in calcareous sandy sediments.. <br />This soil area is in the southeastern part of the survey area. It <br />occupies about 12 percent of the total acreage. About 40 percent of the <br />area is the Olney soil, 25 percent Vona soil, and the remaining 35 <br />percent is soils of minor extent. <br />The Olney and Vona soils both have sandy loam surface layers. The <br />Olney soil has a sandy clay loam subsoil and the Vona soil has a sandy <br />loam subsoil. <br />The minor soils in this azea are the well drained Ascalon and Bijou <br />soils and the excessively drained Valent and tifigton soils. <br />T4ost of this soil area is used for grazing li;~estock. About 10 percent <br />of the area is dryland farmed, mostly in the Olney soils. A larger <br />percentage had been farmed in the past but because of lour precipitation <br />and wind erosion hazard marry fields were abandoned or reseeded to grass. <br />The potential for homesites on this soil zrea is good and fair for <br />trildlife habitat. <br />3 ~/ <br />