Show can control gullies by eliminating cause keeping water out of gullies is a sure way of controlling them and this can be done by terracing explains R C hay extension agricultural engineer of the university of illinois college of agriculture the approaching slack season after harvest is a good time of the year to do terracing work gullies on cultivated slopes can be starved and eventually eliminated by terracing the terraces not only slow up and divert runoff water from gullies but also materially reduce sheet erosion losses farmers experiences and experiments conducted under the supervision of farm advisers and the college of agriculture show that terraced fields lose only about one seventh as much soil by erosion as comparable fields R C hay explains that water diverted from fields must be handled with care or the formation of gullies at the outlets may result |