EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION 223 



The American Forestry magazine says : " When the sod is 

 broken, the soil blows so badly that hundreds of f nesters ' 

 who have tried to make a start in this region have moved out 

 only when their fields have blown into the next section or 

 county. On a bright day in spring in the sandhill section of 

 Kansas, with what is known in that country as only a brisk 

 wind, it is possible to locate all the plowed land for from 

 15 to 20 miles around by the dense clouds of sand that stand 

 out against the blue heavens like pillars of gray smoke." 



