Excerpt from Soil Losses From Cultivated Strips in Strip-Cropped Fields in the Ohio Valley Region During the growing seasons of 1986, 1937, and 1938 studies were made of soil losses from cultivated strips on strip-cropped fields in parts of the Ohio Valley Region. Only the soil deposited in the meadow strips immediately below the eroded cultivated __strips was measured. The measured deposits were colluvial fans of several polyhedral forms, chiefly wedges and pyramids. The slope of strip and divergence from the contour were determined for each portion of a strip from which the soil in any colluvial fan had been eroded. The volume of soil in a colluvial fan was measured with the intent of determining the association of that volume with the values for the slope of strip and divergence of contour of the portion of the strip from which the soil in the colluvial fan was derived. Like measurements were made also or the distance from a strip to the top of the watershed contributing rim-off to that strip and the width of strip. Soil loss on the different soil types, on strips of different degrees of previous erosion, and on strips below areas in different types of land use were studied in like manner. A few prac tices supplementary to strip cropping were also studied in relation to the soil losses from cultivated strips. The measurements made in 1936, on Muskingum silt loam, chiefly to discover relationships between contour divergence and soil loss, produced insufficient data for statistical analysis, but indicated that soil losses increase with increases in divergence from the contour and are excessively large where the contour divergence exceeds 5 percent. 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.