Saybrook and Wingate soils have argillic horizon and are on higher lying gently sloping and moderately sloping areas. The potential for surface water runoff is low or negligible. Permeability is moderate in the solum and moderately slow in the underlying material. Most of the Chalmers soils are cultivated. Corn and soybeans are the principal row crops.
Native vegetation is prairie grasses.
Series is of moderate extent. Newton County, Indiana, l948.