Connecticut State Soil WINDSOR
The Windsor soil series was established in the Connecticut Valley Area in 1899. On May 3, 1899 with an appropriation of $16,000, Milton Whitney, the Chief of the Division of Agricultural Soils, began four soil survey field operations. One of surveys was located in Connecticut and concentrated on tobacco lands in the Connecticut Valley. The soils of the Connecticut Valley were classified and mapped according to any condition which might influence the character of the vegetation, especially the character of the tobacco, the kind of crops adapted to the land, as well as the quality and quantity of the crops. Windsor was one of the soils classified and mapped this way.
Windsor sand it was called, represented the original bottom of the old glacial Lake Hitchcock in its shallowest parts. Initial lab data found the soil to be composed of yellowish-red or brown sand, containing less than 5 percent clay. In favorable seasons, very fine quality thin-leaved silky tobacco was produced on these soils. The Windsor soil was named after the town of Windsor. Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut and was the first English settlement in the state.
Windsor soils throughout its range can be used for agriculture (growing food for humans and animals); engineering (roads, buildings, tunnels); ecology (wetlands); recreation (ball fields, playgrounds, camp areas), and more. Common trees are
white, black, and northern red oak, eastern white pine, pitch pine, gray birch, poplar, red maple, and sugar maple.
For more information about this and other State Soils, visit the Soil Science Society of America "Around the World-State Soils" website.
Connecticut State Soil WINDSOR
The Windsor soil series was established in the Connecticut Valley Area in 1899. On May 3, 1899 with an appropriation of $16,000, Milton Whitney, the Chief of the Division of Agricultural Soils, began four soil survey field operations. One of surveys was located in Connecticut and concentrated on tobacco lands in the Connecticut Valley. The soils of the Connecticut Valley were classified and mapped according to any condition which might influence the character of the vegetation, especially the character of the tobacco, the kind of crops adapted to the land, as well as the quality and quantity of the crops. Windsor was one of the soils classified and mapped this way.
Windsor sand it was called, represented the original bottom of the old glacial Lake Hitchcock in its shallowest parts. Initial lab data found the soil to be composed of yellowish-red or brown sand, containing less than 5 percent clay. In favorable seasons, very fine quality thin-leaved silky tobacco was produced on these soils. The Windsor soil was named after the town of Windsor. Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut and was the first English settlement in the state.
Windsor soils throughout its range can be used for agriculture (growing food for humans and animals); engineering (roads, buildings, tunnels); ecology (wetlands); recreation (ball fields, playgrounds, camp areas), and more. Common trees are
white, black, and northern red oak, eastern white pine, pitch pine, gray birch, poplar, red maple, and sugar maple.
For more information about this and other State Soils, visit the Soil Science Society of America "Around the World-State Soils" website.