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THE SOILS OF ELGIN COUNTYVolume 1REPORT NO . 63OF THEONTARIO CENTRE FORSOIL RESOURCE EVALUATIONbyL . W. SchutResources Management BranchOntario Ministry of Agriculture and FoodGuelph, Ontario1992The Ontario Centre forSoil Resource Evaluation serves as a coordinating body between three memberagencies working in the areas of soil inventory, interpretation, and research . It is made up ofcomponents of the Land Resource Division, Centre for hand and Biological Resources Research ofAgriculture Canada, Resources Management Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Foodand the Department of Land Resource Science of the University of Guelph .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe completion of this report and the soilmaps for Elgin County required the assistance ofmany people. Grateful appreciation is extended toall of the following individualswho contributed inso many ways.Assistance with legend preparation, fieldmapping and map preparation was provided byD. Aspinall, E. Wilson, and B . Stevens, OntarioMinistry of Agriculture and Food, Guelph. Soilcorrelation assistance was provided by E. Presant,Agriculture Canada, Guelph, and T. Hagerty,Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Guelph .Field assistance with sampling for soilcharacterization and interpretation was providedby B. Hohner, K. Denholm, S . Duvieusart andD. Lymbumer, Agriculture Canada, Guelph, andby D. Aspinall, T . Hagerty, E. Wilson, andJ. Alberts, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture andFood, Guelph.Assistance with data management wasprovided by C. Fitzgibbon and C. Palmer,Department of Land Resource Science, Universityof Guelph, and by J. Alberts, Ontario Ministry ofAgriculture and Food, Guelph . Special assistancewith the map computer files was provided byB. Grant, Agriculture Canada, Guelph.Laboratory analyses were done by B. Hohnerand C . Miller, Agriculture Canada, Guelph, andL. Stahlbaum, Department of Land ResourceScience, University of Guelph. Water retentionanalyses were done by K . Wires, AgricultureCanada, Ottawa. Engineering analyses were doneby staff of the Ministry of Transportation ofOntario, London, under the supervision ofR. Murphy .Assistance in preparing the water erosionsection of the report was provided by 1. Sheltonand Dr. G. Wall, Agriculture Canada, Guelph .Assistance in developing the horticultural cropinterpretations was provided by K. Priest, OntarioMinistry of Agriculture and Food, Woodstock, andJ . Gardner, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture andFood, London . The interpretations for special fieldcrops, and the C values for the water erosioninterpretations, were developed with the assistanceof H. Martin, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture andFood, St. Thomas .Cartographic assistance in preparing the maps,and also the figures in the report, was provided byD. Irvine and D. Wilson, Department of LandResource Science, University of Guelph, andD. Rouleau, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture andFood, Guelph. Map digitization was done by1 . Gillespie and G. Cameron, Ontario Ministry ofAgriculture and Food, Guelph . Preparation of themaps for printing was done by staff of AgricultureCanada, Ottawa, under the supervision ofB . Edwards and R. St. John .Climatic information contained in the reportwas provided by Dr . D. Brown, Department ofLand Resource Science, University of Guelph .General editorial comments were provided by M.Kingston and B. van den Broek, Ontario Ministryof Agriculture and Food, Guelph. Wordprocessing assistance to prepare the manuscriptwas provided by J . Alberts, M. van Dongen, andJ . Fagan, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture andFood, Guelph.
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Page 5 and 6: Southwold Soils (SO) . . . . . . .
Page 7 and 8: LIST OF FIGURES1 . Soil map index f
Page 9 and 10: 5. More detailed information for a
Page 11 and 12: Table 1 .Climate data for Elgin Cou
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Page 15 and 16: Table 2.Correlation of major soils
Page 17 and 18: Figure 6.Schematic landscape cross-
Page 19 and 20: HOW THE SOILS WERE MAPPED AND CLASS
Page 21 and 22: of soil profiles and horizons which
Page 23 and 24: GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SOILSSo
Page 25 and 26: Table 3.Soils and land units mapped
Page 27 and 28: Figure 11 .Soil textural groups and
Page 29 and 30: phase (BN.T) soils were mapped in c
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Page 37 and 38: clay. The Ap horizons commonly have
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to neutral in the Ap horizons, to m
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tillage practices, particularly no-
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Organic (OR)Organic land units usua
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eference and also Publication No .
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Procedure :1) Locate the symbols 'B
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Table 4.Agricultural alnd capabilit
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Soil Suitability ClassesDescription
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Procedure:1) Locate the symbols 'BV
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Table 6.Agricultural land suitabili
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Table 6 .Agricultural land suitabil
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erosion losses will occur . Potenti
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the average annual soil loss using
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Table 9 . Mean K values, K ranges a
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Table 10.LS values for different co
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Table 13.C values for common field
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Table 14 . C values for some field
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Table 16.C values for some common c
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GLOSSARYAlluvium materialBlanketCal
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ProminentmottlesRaised shorelineSoi
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4. Schut, L.W. and W.G. Stevens . 1
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APPENDIX 1Generalized Soil Informat
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BERRIEN SOIL TILL PHASE (BE.T)GENER
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BURFORD SOIL (BU)GENERALIZED PROFIL
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CAMILLA SOIL (CM)GENERALIZED PROFIL
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GOBLES SOIL (GO)GENERALIZED PROFILE
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KELVIN SOIL (KE)GENERALIZED PROFILE
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MAPLEWOOD SOIL - TILL PHASE (MA.T)G
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NORMANDALE SOIL (NO)GENERALIZED PRO
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STRATHBURN SOIL (ST)GENERALIZED PRO
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TOLEDO SOIL - COARSE PHASE (TO.C)GE
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WATTFORD SOIL (WF)GENERALIZED PROFI
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APPENDIX 2Field Identification of S
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5. Proceed to Figure 13 and determi
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Figure 13 : Field Site Key To Ident
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Figure 14 :Field Site Key To Identi
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A iFigure 15 :Field Site Key To Ide
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Figure 16 : Field Site Key To Ident
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