Soils of the Eastern United States and Their Setts XXII PDF Download

Author: Jay A. Bonsteel
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484134118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Excerpt from Soils of the Eastern United States and Their Setts XXII: The Norfolk Sandy Loam The Cecil sandy loam thus constitutes not only a desirable type of soil for agricultural uses, but it also occurs in such positions that the surroundings of the farm home and its healthfulness are-frequently more desirable than the average. The chief problem for those who farm the Cecil sandy loam is that of maintaining the soil type against erosion. The rainfall within the district where the type occurs is not infrequently heavy, and comes, largely, in the form of torrential downpours during the early part Of the spring Season, when the surface soil is not protected by the cover of any vegetative growth. Unless the soil has been properly managed by contour farming, terracing, the i'ncorporation Of organic matter, and deep plowing, it is sometimes difficult to maintain the soil against active erosion, particularly around the heads of small streams and along slopes of any great degree of declivity. In fact, it has been observed during the progress Of the numerous soil surveys in this section that the area Of the Cecil sandy loam is annually decreasing through the bodily removal of the surface sandy loam covering and its transportation down the gullies, streams, and rivers of the Pied mont section. Not infrequently where the surface soil is shallow a heavy rainfall will completely saturate the 4: or 5 inches Of mellow surface soil, will lubricate the underlying stiff clay, and, if the slopes be at all steep, the surface soil under these conditions will bodily slip down hill, leaving a red gash or scar formed by the exposed subsoil. Land of this character must be SO handled that the surface soil may not become saturated to this degree, but that the water falling at any one time may be absorbed by a deeper soil reservoir capable ofmain taining both the soil and the soil moisture against the downward pull of gravity along the slope. 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.