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4 SOIL SIIRVEY SERIES 1960, NO. 28 <br />- 999 <br />level areas of Ulysses and Colby soils. Ulysses and ggreat a hazard as it is in the T~"iley-Colby association, nor <br />Colby'soils generally are gently sloping and have slopes do crops fail so frequentlc. <br />of as much as 3 percent. Some ]akebeds in areas of Ule In some areas wells hate b en dug and n'ater is pumped <br />Richfield soils are wet in periods of wet weather. Figure for irritation. In the irr mated areas some beets are <br />3 shows the main soils in this association and the under- grown, m addition to the ame kinds of crops as are <br />- lying material. grown mdry-farmed areas. The main problems in irri- <br />Also in the association are Goshen, Vona, and Otero gated areas are managing ater and maintaining fer- <br />-. soils. The Goshen soils occupy the upland drainageways, tllity. <br />and Ulysses sandy loam and Vona sandy loam are nt the Small areas in this assn ation are in native Bras_es <br />edges of this association near the sandhills. In the a+ld are used for grazing. <br />sautllcastern part of the county, Otem sandy loam oc- <br />cupies small, steeper areas along intermittent drainage- 3. Travessilla-Cascajo A sociation <br />ways and is on a few ridges. <br />1\early all of this assoclation is used for dryland farm- Shallow. sandy or gra.aelly . ails an ~avg1~; steep areas i <br />ing. ll~+eat and sorghum are the main crops, and barley The shallow, gravelly soil that. ma1:e up most of this <br />- is grown in a small acreage. Under dryland farming, association occur in rough, teep areas and were derived <br />_ _the_main problems are conserving moisture and control- mainly from sandstone and eds of gravel. The associa- <br />ling wind erosion. but sloping areas are also susceptible to lion is along Two Butte Cre k, along ~~'ild IIorse Creek. <br />water erosion. In this nssoc+ation wind erosion is not so and in the southwestern pa of the county. It includes <br />1 <br />~~ <br />;•~~~ <br />,: <br />..r_~:-: <br />~~ \, -_~_ <br />\ ti \\~ \`~~y .~\ <br />~ ~ ~ . ~ ~`\ \ <br />\ \ ~ ~ ~~ \ <br />I ~~/ <br />1 <br />\ \\ p~0- ~ i / /' ~ <br />\ \ ~~ • ~ <br />\\ \ / <br />~.r ~ d~ y . <br />l ~~\~ ~ _. <br />~~. ~ <br />1q MgTtO ~~,~~~~ ~ ~ iii' O <br />~,~~ <br />Figure 3.-Maio aoila and underlying material in soil association 2 <br /> <br /> <br />