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Identifier: soilerosioninsou180davi (find matches)
Title: Soil erosion in the South
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, R. O. E. (Royall Oscar Eugene), 1880-1949
Subjects: Soil erosion Southern States
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
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Bui. 1 80, U. 5. Dept. cf Agriculture. Plate IX.
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SOIL EROSION IN THE SOUTH. 17 nossee presents such a problem, and the State is endeavoring to solveit by a study of the soil possibilities. The State geologist, workingwith a trained forester and soil expert, is preparing to reforest a largeextent of country that has been injured through erosion. The natural reclamation of flood plains covered with sand followsthe prevention of wash from the hillsides. With the velocity of thewater from the lulls checked, only the finer material will be carried insuspension to the flood plain. By the continual deposition of siltymaterial over the sand during times of flood, a soil which is welladapted to agriculture will gradually be built up. However, of alllands injured by erosion, it is probably hardest to develop a produc-tive soil over those areas that have been covered to some depth withsand. ERODED SECTIONS IN THE SOUTH. Throughout the South erosion is probably worse than in othersections of the country. In the Atlantic Coast States the worst t

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