Soil Conservation For Sustainable Agriculture

CONTENTS: Part I: Soil Erosion. 1. The Problem in the United States, 2. Erosion and Civilization, 3. Results of Erosion, 4. Processes nad Types of Erosion, 5. Rates or Rerosion and Runoff, 6. Relation of Physical and Chemical Properties of Soils to the Erosion Problem, 7. Climate and Soil Erosion, 8. Infiltration in Relation to Runoff, The Erosion Process, and the Utilization of Rainfall, 9. Relation of Erosion to Crop Yields, 10. Relation of Erosion to Vegetative Changes, 11. Sedimentation, 12. Mass Movement an Important Process of Soil Wastage, 13. Geology and Soil Erosion, 14. Relation of Entomology to Erosion, Part 2: Soil Conservation. 15. A National Program of Soil Conservation, 16. Agronomic Practices in Soil and Water Conservation, 17. Farm and Range Plants Useful for Erosion control and Water Conservation, 18. The Place of Forestry in Soil and Water Conservation, 19. contouring, 20. Terracing, 21. Runoff-Disposal Channelways and Outlets, 22. Subsoilin gna dOther Subsurface Tillage Operations, 23. Gully Prevention and control, 24. Control fo Erosion on Highways, 25. Small Dams for Water Storage, 26. Erosion of Stream Banks, 27. Water Spreading, 28. Wildlife nad Soil Conservation, 29. Soil Conservation and Flood Control, 30. Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Region, 31. Southern Appalachian Region, 32. Northern Appalachian and New England Area, 33. Central Prairie and eastern Timbered Border Region, 34. Ozark Highlands, 35. The Great Plains, 36. Edwards Plateau – Fort Worth Prairie – Cross Timbers Area, 37. Colorado River Region, 38. Pacific Northwest Region, 39. Pacific Southwest Region, 40. Early Efforts Toward Erosion Control, 41. Erosion Problems in Foreign Countries, 42. Research, an Arm of Coordinated Land Use, 43. Soil Conservation Surveys, 44. Index.