Adams soils are commonly associated with the moderately well drained Croghan soils and somewhat poorly drained and poorly drained Naumburg soils in the glacial outwash component of the landscape. Wallace soils have ortstein layers and, in some areas, are in a complex with Adams soils. Runoff is very slow to medium. Permeability is rapid or very rapid in the surface layer and upper part of the subsoil and very rapid in the lower part of the subsoil and substratum. Extensive areas are idle and support aspen, birch, and pine seedlings or sweet fern, spirea, and brambles.
Uncleared areas support maple, beech, spruce, and pine.
Farmed areas are used mainly for hay or pasture with limited acreages of corn and small grain. Jefferson County, New York, 1911. Adams soils may not be maintained in MLRAs 93 and 94B because they are outside of Region R and 144A because of soil temperature when these areas are updated.