38 TYPES OF SOIL 



QUESTIONS 



1. Discuss light and heavy soils. 



2. Discuss warm and cold soils. 



3. What effect has color on soils ? 



4. What effect has location on the temperature of soils ? 



5. Which will be warmed more equally, plants set in rows running east 

 and west or those running north and south ? Why ? 



6. Name the classes of soils with reference to constituents. 



7. Name the classes of soils with reference to moisture content. 



8. What are sandy soils ? Clay soils ? 



9. Discuss loamy soils. 



10. What are limestone soils ? Vegetable soils ? 



11. Explain what is meant by buckshot soil. 



12. Discuss arid soils and alkali soils. 



13. What are semiarid soils? 



14. Discuss humid soils. 



REFERENCES 



The Soil, King. 

 Soils, Burkett. 

 The Soil of the Farm, Scott & Morton. 



