CLASSIFICATION BY THE BUREAU OF SOILS 99 



red color, with chocolate red or pinkish red subsoils. Both strata 

 are calcareous. They are first bottom soils in Texas and are well 

 adapted to cotton, corn, alfalfa, forage crops, and cabbage. 



Myatt Series. The Myatt soils are gray to dark gray. The 

 subsoils are of gray to mottled gray and yellow color and impervious 

 character. They represent the poorest drained portion of the 

 Coastal Plain stream terraces. They lie principally above overflow. 

 When drained they may be used quite profitably for sugar cane, 

 corn, and a number of forage crops. 



Ocklocknee Series. These soils are dark gray to brownish, 

 with brownish or mottled brownish, yellowish and gray subsoils. 

 They occur in the Coastal Plains and are subject to overflow. Corn, 

 oats, and forage crops are grown. 



Osage Series. They consist of dark gray to almost black 

 alluvial wash from the sandstone and shale soils of the prairie 

 regions. They produce good yields of general farm crops. 



Podunk Series. These are dark brown in color and overlie 

 lighter brown to brownish gray or yellowish gray subsoils. They 

 occur as rather high bottom lands, but are subject to overflow. 

 They produce grass and heavy truck crops well. 



Sarpy Series. These soils range from light gray to nearly 

 black. They possess loose silty or fine sandy subsoils distinctly 

 lighter than the surface. They occur in the bottoms of the Missis- 

 sippi and Missouri rivers and their large tributaries. They are very 

 productive and adapted to grains, grasses, and alfalfa. 



Sharkey Series. These soils are of yellowish brown to drab 

 color, with mottled rusty brown, bluish, drab and yellowish sub- 

 soils, of very plastic structure. They are very heavy alluvial soils of 

 the Mississippi river, commonly called " buckshot land.'' They are 

 well adapted to corn, sugar cane and cotton. About 1,(500,000 acre.* 

 have been mapped. 



Trinity Series. These soils are dark brown to black first bot- 

 tom lands mainly derived from the Huston series. The organic 

 matter content is high and lime is usually present. They occur 

 as flat lands in shallow valleys. Large crops of alfalfa, cotton and 

 corn are produced when the soil is well drained. The area mapped 

 comprises 1,280,000 acres. 



Uvalde Series. These soils are alluvial and occupy broad level 

 flood plains in Texas. They are light in color and very floury to 

 the feel. 



Wabash Series. The soils are of a dark brown to black color 



