LAND-CAPABILITY CLASSIFICATION

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LAND-CAPABILITY CLASSIFICATION Agriculture Handbook No. 210 SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Growth Through Agricultural Progress For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing OflSce Washington 25, - Price 15 cents FOREWORD Since soil siuveys ore based on all of the characteristics of soils that influence their use and management, interpretations are needed for each of the many uses. Among these interpretations the grouping of soils into capability units, subclasses, and classes is one of the most important. This grouping serves as an introduction of the soil mop to farmers and other land users developing conservation plans. As we have gained experience in this grouping, the definitions of the categories have improved. It is the purpose of this publication to set forth these definitions.

same kind and condition of vegetative cover, (c) have com- parable providepotential productivity. The capability unit condenses and simplifies soils information for lem planning individual tracts of land, field by field. Capa- bility units purposes.with the class and subclass furnish information about the degree of limitation,

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