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Excerpt from Soil Erosion in the South All effort should be directed toward lessening the surface run-off and increasing the quantity Of water soaking into the soil. If all the water falling on the surface Of a given area were absorbed by the soil, there could be no erosion. It is the water flowing over the surface that must be controlled to prevent damage from excessive soil washing. The amount of water which the ground absorbs depends upon the slope, the character or condition of the soil, the nature and amount of vegetal covering, and the amount and character Of precipitation. Perhaps the slope has the greatest influence Of any Of these factors, but even this may be more than balanced by the character Of soil, the precipitation, and the vegetation. As has been previously pointed out doubling the slope results per se in greatly increasing the erosion, but the increased velocity of water flowing down the mpe makes the erosive power about 32 times greater. 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.