Show STUDIES OF SOIL EROSION LOSSES MADE BY STATES A measure of the nationwide in- in interest In Interest terest In controlling soil soli erosion and water unter runoff Is found In the latest report of the United States Depart Department Department meat ment of Agriculture on the work of the state experiment stations With the annual loss from soil erosion es estimated estimated at not less than the department In co operation with I stations and other state agencIes Is attacking attaching the problem filon long two lines Research as to the best ways to control erosion Is being carried on In all nil pasts palts of the United States Control measures thus ered are put to Immediate use by Civilian I Conservation corps boys who In more than a n dozen states Elates are plant plantIng plantIng 1 lug Ing trees and other soIl Boll bindIng crops building terraces and building dams to control flood water ater I roslon studies at the Alabama and Texas 1 lS e stations show chow that ter terraces terraces terraces races while nece necessary sary on all nil bated atell land subject to erosion are not alone nione sufficient to prevent losses lose of soil between terraces I soil and needed u water ater are lost by sheet erosion and run off These stations ha have havo 0 shown that this Ios loss can be reduced by strips of ot cover er crops supplementing the terraces The Iowa station has shown by ex es extensive tests that many farms are be beIng beIng fag Ing washed away awny at tho the rate of ot 1 foot every cry 50 years When hen W hen corn h grown continuously the lots lo 3 s takes place at about 1 foot Coot every 30 years When torn corn rows run across the slope the losses are cut In hilt If Losses from land In alfalfa clover closer clo er and blue bluegrass bluegrass bluegrass grass are very cry small When sweet clover cloer clo er u was as plowed under soil soli and water w losses were strikingly reduced From the Far Car West the WashIng WashIngton Washington Washington ton station st reports results of studies on soli soil representative of large areas In eastern W Washington ashington ton W Winter Inter wheat wheaty y only tenth one-tenth or one half halt as many bushels per acre on land which had lost Its topsoil use because of ot ero ero- erosion erosion erosion sion 1 of or spring wheat were even en less favorable orabe Here too It was vas proven pro that vegetation whether of grasses legumes or c even etien en grain stub stub- stubble stubble stubble ble went a n long way wiy toward con controlling controlling trolling soil soli and u water ater losses |