Preventing Soil Blowing on the Southern Great Plains

摘要: "Soil blowing is often a serious problem from December to May [in the Southern Great Plains], when soil is, in many cases, bare and winds are high. This period referred as 'blow season.' The whole art of preventing controlling consists keeping nonblowing materials on surface. These may be crops, crop residues, or clods. When crops absent, essential feature use implements that lift clods other surface rather than pulverize destroy them.... Since tillage dependent implements, it seems first importance consider used discuss their merits shortcomings relation blowing.... From general principles stated specific examples implement given, most farmers can probably decide correct applications for farms." -- p. 1-3