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11/lE/i399 10:32 719946©525 USDA TDAD P.".GE 15 <br />.~'L• • <br />`~ • • <br />. <br /> -5- Loamy Plains 46 <br />_. <br />t <br /> Permeability of these so11a is moderately slow to moderate. <br /> Water-holding capacity is high. Water intake rate is moderate to <br /> good. Runoff is sloe to medium and the hazard of water erosion <br /> varies from slight to high but can he severe when the vegetation hoe <br /> been destroyed. <br /> Soil Series <br />' Adana looms _ Manzarola clay loam <br /> Baca .clay <br />loam Minnequa loan <br /> . <br />Baca loam Rago silt loam <br /> Baca silt loam Renohill loam, moderately <br /> Baca silty clay loam shallow <br /> •Alluviel ~l.and complex Renohill loam <br /> Campo,clay~loam Sntanta loam <br /> Colby lino sandy loam Singerton <br />• Colby silt loam, clay substratum Stoneham loam <br /> Colby silt loam Stoneham-Kim loame, eroded <br /> Port Collins loaie Tyrone loam <br />• _ ,Harvey loam . Tyrone soils, eroded <br /> Keith silt loam Weld silt loam <br /> Rim fine sandy loam Wiley and Baca sails, <br /> Kim loam eroded <br />_ ~Mnnvel loam Wiley silt loam <br />•~ Manvel loos, eroded Wiley loam <br />• Hanvel silt loam <br /> 8. MAJOR USE5 A.RU INIERPREIAIIONS FORt <br /> 1. Graxing <br /> A11 ages and classes o! livastocR graze this site. Proper <br /> distribution o£ water is essent2al to get uniform grazing. About g5 <br /> par cent of the total annual yield is from speclea that furnich <br /> forage for grazing animals <br /> This site has a variety of grasses, .and shrubs ouch ae winterfat and <br /> fourwing sal[bnah• These species provide good nutrition for grazing <br /> animals. Continuous year-long grazing or grazing from Apr11 to <br /> October by cattle cause western vheatgrasc, and aeedleendthread to <br /> be replaced Dy bluegrema, sand dropseed, and galieta. A system of <br /> deferred grazing, which varies the season of grazing use in pastures <br /> doting succeesLve years, is needed to maintain a healthy well- <br /> balanced plant community, Rest during different seasons benefits <br /> different plants. Summer rest (May-September) benefits warm-season <br /> plants such as blue grams and eideoats gtama. Pall and winter <br /> graairg (pctober-February) should not exceed 652 use of the yearly <br /> growth on shrubs such ae vinterfat and fourwing ealtbush. Spring <br /> rest (March-Ju'_p) benefits cool-aeaaon plants such as western <br /> wheatgraes and needieandthread. Deferment during fete winter and <br /> spring ceduees compecltion betxeen grazing animalc for palatable <br />- shrubs and lorbs. <br />