Terracing of farm lands . A. A STEEP, WELL TERRACED SLOPE IN MIDDLE NORTH CAROLINA. ALTHOUGH THE TERRACES ARENARROW, THEY ARE NEARLY LEVEL, AND EROSION IS SLIGHT. (COURTESY OF BUREAU OF SOILS.). INCOMPLETE TERRACES WELL LOCATED BUT TOO FAR APART, THE RISE BETWEEN THEM BEING TOOGREAT. AT LEAST ONE INTERVENING TERRACE SHOULD HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED. CONSTRUCTION OP TERRACES. 29 These drawbacks are more than offset by the gain from increasedyield and the greater ease of maintaining soil in good tilth. It is possi-ble that in some very heavy soils terracing might make soils too wet forearly spring p
Terracing of farm lands . A. A STEEP, WELL TERRACED SLOPE IN MIDDLE NORTH CAROLINA. ALTHOUGH THE TERRACES ARENARROW, THEY ARE NEARLY LEVEL, AND EROSION IS SLIGHT. (COURTESY OF BUREAU OF SOILS.). INCOMPLETE TERRACES WELL LOCATED BUT TOO FAR APART, THE RISE BETWEEN THEM BEING TOOGREAT. AT LEAST ONE INTERVENING TERRACE SHOULD HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED. CONSTRUCTION OP TERRACES. 29 These drawbacks are more than offset by the gain from increasedyield and the greater ease of maintaining soil in good tilth. It is possi-ble that in some very heavy soils terracing might make soils too wet forearly spring plowing. If this should take place in any case it couldeasily be corrected by blind drains, either of tile or of green pine poles. CONSTRUCTION OF are largely developed by means of erosion, the very agent theyare intended to lessen. The earth which is scoured from the slopes isdeposited at the foot of the slope unti] aggrading has proceeded so farthat erosion no longer takes place. The rapidity with which the depositaccumulates before leveling has reduced the slope, shows the extent towhich erosion was taking place under open slope cultivation. There are four very import
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