UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 512 



Contribution from the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering 

 LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



April 5, 1917 



PREVENTION OF THE EROSION OF 

 FARM LANDS BY TERRACING 



By 



C. E. RAMSER, Drainage Engineer 



Introduction ....... 



Forms of Erosion 



Methods of Preyenting Erosion. 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Terracing 5 



Reclamation of Gullied Lands 38 



Summary 38 



WASHINGTON 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1917 



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