Loams shade off on one side into sand; the very fertile sands already described might quite truly be called sandy loams.
On the other side they shade off into clays; the heavy loams used to be splendid wheat soils, but are now, like clays, often of little value.
Sandy soils and sandy loams produce the very best roots, most evenly distributed, and also most easily preserved and removed when the trees are dug from the earth.
In the sandy loams of New Jersey, a similar tool is used for digging peach trees, which is drawn by a span of heavy horses that are attached to the two separate beams, one being on each side of the trees.
Heavy alluvial soils are not suitable for fruit culture, and are much more valuable for the growth of farm crops, but the light sandy loams and free loams of medium character suit all kinds of fruit to perfection.
Proceeding north the fruit soils are either sandy loams or loams of a brownish colour of volcanic origin.
It can be grown over a considerable part of our coastal and inland downs, as well as the Stanthorpe district, and thrives in many kinds of soil, from light sandy loams of poor quality to richloams of medium texture or even heavier.
Sandy loams are, therefore, our best pineapple soils, though it does well on free loams of basaltic or alluvial origin.
The cherry likes a deep, moderately rich loam, whereas we are growing it mostly on sandy loams of a granitic origin.
Cynthiana is particular as to soil and location, preferring sandy loams and does not thrive on clays or limestones.
On clays, loamsor rich soils, the vines make a rank growth, and the fruits are few, late and of poor quality.
The best-known clays are the surface clays, loams and marls, the shales and other sub-surface clays, and the pottery and china clays.
Agriculturally, the Wealden clay produces stiff, yellowish soils of a wet and poor character, but sometimes loams of a highly productive nature occur.
While clay loams or soils overlying limestone are most desirable, sandy and even gravelly loams may be used, but these latter soils should contain more or less humus and the gravelly soil should not be too coarse.
For alluvial and prairie soils the red and brown varieties are to be preferred, while all kinds do well on the sandy loams and light soils.
Sandy loamsand soils that contain a large amount of humus may be plowed in the spring, but the work should be done early in order that the soil may settle before planting.
Of these, sandy loams have a higher adaptation than clay loams, when equal to the former in fertility, as in the latter the plants can more quickly gather the needed food supplies, since the roots and rootlets can penetrate them more readily.
Sweet clover seems to grow about equally well on sandyloams and clay loams, but it has also much power to grow in stiff clays and even in infertile sands.
But it will grow much better, of course, on good, rich land, as on moist loams and rich alluvial soils.
Highest, probably, in adaptation, especially when climatic conditions are considered along with those of soil, are the clay loams west of the Cascade Mountains and northward from California to Alaska.
Highest in general suitability, probably, are clay loamsunderlaid with a moderately porous clay subsoil.
Its broad, swift stream was bringing down great deposits of ochreous gravels and of sands interstratified with loams and clays.
The whole range of sands, gravels, light loams and moulds allow water to pass freely through them, and are sufficiently drained by nature, provided, they are as open at the bottom as throughout the mass.
But for these unsuitable soils there are Sutton's Early Gem, the Champion Horn, and Intermediate, which require no great depth of earth; while for deep loams the New Red Intermediate answers admirably.
Natural loams are the result of the decay and admixture of various earths, and they are mostly of a mellow texture, easily worked and highly productive.
Clays and loams are generally rich in potash, sulphur, and phosphates, but deficient in soluble silica and lime.
On the West Shore the soils range from a light sandy loam in the lower levels south from Baltimore to rather heavy loams overlying a yellowish clay on the rolling uplands and on the terraces along the Potomac and Patuxent.
Alluvial loams occupy the narrow river valleys; but the most common soil of the section is that formed from gneiss with a large per cent.
Oats require a great deal of moisture; hence light, sandy soils are not so well adapted to this crop as are the sandy loams and fine clay loams with their closer and heavier texture.
In southern Louisiana alluvial loams and loamy clay soils are cultivated.
For some crops, deep sandy loams can provide just about as much usable moisture as clays.
And sandy loams often have a clayey, moisture-rich subsoil.
The Dunkirk sandyloams occur in large irregular areas bordering the lake or running from the lake bluff back to the escarpment.
There are some deviations from the type and yet the true sandy loams can be very easily recognized.
The soils are sandy, gravelly, or clay loams varying greatly in fertility and in adaptability for the grape.
Like most of its species, Cynthiana is somewhat particular as to soil and location, preferring sandy or gravelly loams and not thriving on clays or limestones.
The Dunkirk shaleloams are found upon the hill or escarpment.
Medium to light loams or heavy sandy loams, underlaid by slightly heavier loams or clay loams, are preferred by the Baldwin, which has a wider soil adaptation than practically any other variety.
Sometimes the disk harrow can be used to work up the soil in the orchard in the spring without any plowing at all, especially on loose loams where there are few stones.
Fall plowing is a good practice on the medium loams and more open soils, but on the heavy clays spring plowing is to be preferred, as when plowed in the fall these soils puddle and become hard to handle.
Cabbages grow best on good loams with a well-drained porous subsoil, although they also do well on clay soils.
The plants will flourish in almost any well-drained soil, but seem to prefer light loams of a limy nature.
Clay loams are less desirable upon every one of the points mentioned, and very sandy soils also.
It grows best on the loams and heavier soils well supplied with water, but not wet.
Like the gravelly loam the stony loams are one-fourth to three-fourths sandy, silty or clay loam, the remainder being rock fragments of larger size than the gravel.
It is for this reason that strong loams and clay soils absorb and hold three times as much water as sandy soils do, while peaty or humus soils absorb a still larger proportion.
Loams or Loamy Soils, consist of mixtures of the sands, silt and clay with some organic matter.
Good loams may be plowed at all times except when excessively wet.
It is earlier, and therefore better to mix with clover for hay, as they mature at the same time; grows well in the shade, and on both loams and sands; springs rapidly after being cropped.
That they are not of post-glacial age is shown by the fact that in many places the angular gravels and flood-loams of the Glacial period overlie them.
One imaginative author, for example, believes the wide-spread loams to be of volcanic origin, while another finds in the same deposits strong evidence of the Deluge.
Such having necessarily been the case, we are not required to suppose that the loess and similar loams have been deposited entirely by rivers flowing from glaciers.
But the height to which such gravels andloams ascend is so great that those who hold them to be of fluvio-glacial origin have found it difficult to maintain this view.
The other view to which I have alluded takes little or no account of river-erosion, but maintains that the floods of the Ice Age were sufficiently great to reach the highest levels at which river-gravels and loams occur.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
