This field in Missouri was plowed about 35 days before
this picture was made and harrowed up and down the slope. Heavy rains followed causing gullies where stalks had been dropped in the harrows.. Most of the damage was done in a few days by…
This photo shows the John :Kulig & R.C. Warner farm in Independence, Wisconsin. On the bank previously sloped, the owner laid a few willow poles so that the ends were in the water. The willow were held down by posts and wire.. This work was done…
In Sherman County, Texas,uncontrolled erosion has made living impossible. Successive wheat failures since 1932. House has been vacated for over two years. There is no vegetation. Thousands of sand drifts over this section as can be seen in foreground…
On the Henry Ahlers farm in Wabasha, Minnesota, a strip of heavy vegetation is sits on top of dyke 6 foot high, which is now filled in with sand and silt from Trout Brook Valley Creek. The tallest fence posts were set in the spring of 1934., the next…
On Dikker's farm, in Cedarville, Illinois, close grazing, has removed the grass cover f'rom this pasture inducing serious erosion. A highway culvert under U. S. 74 was placed low enough under the road to allow an overfall to be created above the…
This is the James Black farm in Lamoni, Iowa on 4/16/36. A closer view of the same checks as in the gully shown in Mo-12. The height is 2.5', The width is 8 feet. The rope and measuring stick show the changed contour of the bottom of the gully…
On the John Thonpson farrn in Holmen, Wisconsin.
cattle are grazing on a steep hillside gashed by gullies . The
overgrazed condition is causing severe gullying below the fence shown in the picture.
A long, slope to the west with rows running north and south, but with a slight fall to the north and south to a waterway which had not been left in sod. When the field was plowed and planted, this ditch could be crossed. It was seeded with sudan…
