Deerfield is the moderately well drained member of a drainage sequence that includes the excessively drained Carver and Windsor soils, the somewhat poorly drained Pipestone and Wareham soils, and the very poorly drained Scarboro soils. The well drained Agawam , somewhat excessively drained Merrimac , and the excessively drained Hinckley and Penwood soils are on nearby glacial outwash landforms and have sandy and gravelly substrata. The excessively drained Plymouth , somewhat excessively drained Gloucester , well drained Canton , Charlton , Cheshire , Essex and Paxton , and moderately well drained Woodbridge soils are on nearby glacial till uplands. Moderately well drained. Runoff is slow.
Permeability is moderately rapid or rapid in the solum and rapid or very rapid in the substratum.
Mainly cleared and used for truck crops, tobacco, potatoes, hay, pasture and silage corn. Forested areas have pitch pine, white pine, gray birch, red maple, oaks, and sugar maple. Some areas are in urban uses. The soils of this series are moderately extensive. Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1964.