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OE PARTNENT OF ACRICULTURB PAGE 4 OF 0 <br />RESOURCES CONSERVASION SERVICE • ~ OB/1T/9B <br />PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OP SOILS <br />F~o[e -- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OP SOILS--Continued <br />5. Nont alcaseoue looms and silt looms that are lees than 20 <br />percent clay and aandy clay looms, sandy clays, and hemic <br />soil material. These eoiLe are el ightly erodible. Crops <br />i can be grown if measures to control wind erosion are used. <br />6. Noncalcareoue looms and silt looms Chat era more Chan 20 <br />percent clay and noncalcareoue clay looms [hat are less than <br />35 pert ent clay. These soils are very al ightly erodible. <br />Crops tan be grown if ordinary measures to control wind <br />erne ion are used. <br />' ]. Silt e, noncalcareoue silty Clay looms that are lees Chan <br />35 percent clay, and fibric soil material. These voile are <br />very el ightly erodible. Crops can be grown if ordinary <br />measures to control wind eroe ion are used. <br />' e. Soils that are not subject to wind erosion because of <br />coaxes fragments on the surface or bet au ee of surface <br />wetness. <br />'1' WIND ERODIBI LI TY INDEX is used in the wind erosion equation ~w6p~. The index number indicates [he <br />amount of soil loot Sn tone per acre per year. The range of wind erodiDility index numbers Se 0 to 300. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br />IJ <br /> <br />