Soils and Soil Amendments, plant cover, water erosion, cropping, nutrient, organic matter, aggregation, infiltration, fertilizer, fertiliser, soil-depleting, soil-conserving, crop, water 

Excerpt from Continuous Plant Cover, the Key to Soil and Water Conservation For water-erosion control, plant cover serves as a springy cushion to intercept falling rain drops, thus preventing them from striking the. Ground surface before being relieved of their kinetic energy. This prevents them from tear ing the soil particles loose, to be carried away in the runoff water. The raindrops are also prevented from puddling and sealing the soil sur face. This enables the soil to maintain a high infiltration rate and reduces runoff. By maintaining a continuous supply of easily decomposable organic matter on the surface of the ground, plant cover produces and maintains good soil tilth. This is achieved by supplying, in the form of leachings, the humate fractions of organic colloids which are responsible for the production of aggregates or crumbs that are essential to good structure. Plant cover also keeps to an absolute minimum the loss of plant nutrients and soil organic matter by ero sion. By keeping erosion losses to negligible quantities, it is possible to hold the soil in place and build it up at the same time. 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. - from Amzon