Show Control Erosion by ly Deep Plowing Plo Also Helps to Keep Hillsides Planted in Hay and amI Pasture Crops erosion of the tho soil soli Oil not only cuts cut up Ull many hilly hilly fur farms IUS with or ravines but It also causes cause the washing away of much valuable plant nt food depends upon four thin thins thins- the distribution of ot the rainfall char ChilI character DrIer acter of ff the soil soli the slope and the vegetation be hf In can cnn prevented pre ninny Instances by Increasing the absorbing power of the soil soli through deep plow plow- In lag and subsurface drainage manag managing ing 1111 the surface of side hills so as to toen en cause use the water when It must run on the surface to slow now through channels of the flip possible fall and keeping hillsides ID In hay and pasture as much muchas ns as II possible It Is II Advisable when hn plowing plo hillsides hillsides hill hill- sides 1111 to work cros crosswise of f the slope rather rapier than thon up and down and It Is 18 best to throw v the furrow slice up Mil JIll ns as this returns return the soil soli to a certain extent as used use and andon on account of the po of the furrow slice lice permits o a larger amount of the theo water to find It Its II way Into the soil soli than Is the case when hen the furrow slice Is turned downhill down hill hill- hillA A reversible or side bill plow auy be bp used to advantage ad Cultivation tion thun should be practiced along the hillside AI as much ns possible rather than up and down donn and any small Into Inlo which water wilIer from the cross cross- rows runs ruins should be protected by graya grass or by sowing lowing oats Hillsides can he be further protected by alternating long narrow strips strip of cultivated crops with grain and ond hay bay Terraces and channels may be developed developed developed devel devel- at intervals on steep hillsides tf to control the flow no of the Ule water when cultivated crops are to be grown DR Ravines vInes and water waltr courses can be protected by stones atones which to a lar large e extent prevent the removal of ot the soil loll or by grass tile the roots of which hold bold the soil soli Sometimes flumes of or wood or metal are used In places where the fall full of ot the ditches Is steepest Occasionally Occa Ocea the tho cou course course e of the ditch II Is dammed with wire and brush which catches and holds the soil |