Farming Terraced Land PDF Download

Excerpt from Farming Terraced Land: U. S. Department of Agriculture Leaflet No. 335 Building a set of terraces does not in itself control erosion. Construction is only the beginning. How well terraces do the job they are meant to do depends on how they are farmed. A great many terraces have been built on farm land in the United States during the last few years. Many more are needed. Terraces would probably be more widely used if farmers understood how easy it is to farm them when they are built right. Some of the early terraces were built with the ridges and channels too narrow. This made a definite obstruction to normal farming Operations. Properly built terraces with broad ridges and channels are essential if farming Operations are to be successfully and easily performed. One way to make terraces easier to farm, particularly with row crops, is to build them parallel to each other. This is not possible on all land that needs terracing. If you are planning to build terraces, you may want to check with the Soil Conservation Service technician assigned to your soil conservation district to see if parallel terraces can be constructed on your land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.