Soil drifting control in the Prairie Provinces / by E.S. Hopkins, A.E. Palmer and W.S. Chepil.: A12-8/32-1946E-PDF

"In some of the earliest reports of the Dominion Experimental Farms reference is made to the occurence of soil drifting. Even as early as 1887 severe drifting was experienced on the experimental farm at Indian Head and throughout that district. ... Over the greater part of the Prairie Provinces, however, the intermittent occurrence of drifting from year to year, and the more or less widely separated areas involved, have probably discouraged any extensive attack on the problem. During the years from 1931 to 1938, however, soil drifting assumed such serious and widespread proportions and caused such tremendous damage to farm property that more definite action towards effective and permanent control became imperative.This bulletin presents detailed information outlining the most successful methods now known of controlling drifting"--p. [3].

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Department of Agriculture.
Canada. Experimental Farms Service.
Title Soil drifting control in the Prairie Provinces / by E.S. Hopkins, A.E. Palmer and W.S. Chepil.
Series title Farmers' bulletin ; 32
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Cover title.
"Issued October, 1946."
Originally published: 1937.
Historical publication digitized by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Publishing information Ottawa : Department of Agriculture : Division of Field Husbandry, Experimental Farms Service, 1946.
Author / Contributor Hopkins, E. S.
Palmer, A. E.
Chepil, W. S.
Description 59 p. : ill.
Catalogue number
  • A12-8/32-1946E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number Publication 568
Edition Rev.
Subject terms Erosion
Soil conservation
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