Terrace Dimension Changes and the Movement of Terrace Ridges Resulting From Different Farming Practices (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The perpetuation of an efficient terrace system is due in part to adequate terrace maintenance. Maintenance will be required at some time on all terrace systems provided desirable cross sections are to be maintained. Suitable terrace cross sections may be main tained either by proper farming practices or by rebuilding the terrace periodically. A method to determine the different terrace dimension changes resulting Tron the farming operations practiced and crops grown on the absorptive type terrace or mangum broad base terraceahas, been in use and data recorded annually for eight consecutive seasons. At the soil and water conservation experiment station near Clarindai; Iowa. The following terrace dimensions, as shown in Figure l,wwere determined from measurements which'were made yearly. Terrace channel cross section Terrace ridge height Terrace ridge width.

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