—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 26, 196 ft
16
• Conservation
(From Page JJ
on both sides of a township
road.
Water from a hillside on
the vegetab e farm of Walter
Himmelreich, Honks Rl, had
three natural out ets to the
roadside. Pipes under the
road at a 1 three outlets car
ried the water onto the farm
of C arence and Emory Herr.
Because the natura sur
plus of water was spread out
over such a wide area, the
Herr Brothers were forced
to abandon about an acre of
cropland. The . loss of the
cropland was not as serious,
however, as was the weed
problem which -deve’oped
because the area was not cul
tivated. The water channe s
even made mowing the area
impractical.
Himmelreich, who has
farmed on the contour for 15
years, fe 1 t that, even with
his contour strips, he was
losing too much water thru
runoff. In consultation with
the local staff of the Soil
Conservation Service, he de
cided to establish three crop
land terraces on the hillside
to try to hold as much of
the water as possib e. But
ABNER HOUSEKNECHT CHECKS THE DEPTH of a
new cropland terrace on the farm of Walter Himmelreich,
Ronks R 1 The dike on the right is about 18 inches higher
than the channel above it. A dike this high wi> not fill
to overflowing with the most severe rainstorms in this
area These barriers, spaced about 85 feet apart on a hill
side will prevent excessive runoff of rain water.
—L. F. Photo
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realizing that there will al
ways be some runoff in ex
treme periods of ram'a 1, he
decided to construct a diver
sion terrace at the foot of
the slope to carry at 1 the
runoff to one outlet instead
of three.
The township supervisors
agreed to rep ace the ' three
small, inadequate pipes un
der the road with one arge
pipe. This pipe was ’ocated
so as to carry the runoff to
the corner of the Herr Bro
thers’ property where it
cou’d be channeled thrpugh
a wooded area to the stream.
Through their cooperation
the Herr, Brothers reclaimed
an area of land and eliminat
ed a serious weed prob em.
“The soil here is very sus
ceptible to erosion.” Him
me’reich said this week, “I
don’t know how they farmed
it before we put in the con
tour strips.”
Abner Houseknecht, soil
conservationist with the lo
ca' S.C.S., said the intensive
cu’tivation of vegetable far
ming makes soil conserva
tion more difficult on any
farm, but the construction of
the cropland terraces shou d
ho d most of the excess wa
ter on the hillside until it
has time to be absorbed into
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PUSHING UP SOIL FOR A DIKE AND CLEARING OUT A CHANNEL for a cro;
land terrace is a job for horsepower and knowhow. After the contours were laid oi
by the Soil Conservation Service on the farm of Water Himme.reich, Honks Rl, Dot
aid Burkhart, Strasburg Rl, went to work with his “Dozer” to push out the chann
with only enough slope to allow the water to “walk” around the hH and tk>w safely u
to a permanent grass and area. After the terraces are, completed, they .can be mat
tained by normal farming practices. —L. F. Pho
the soil. The excess wil' be
gently waked oft at the end
of the terraces.
Cropland terraces, House
knecht said, have a slope of
on y about 0.4 of a foot per
100 feet of terrace length.
Any excess water collecting
in. such a terrace would move
slow y and carry very little
sediment with it. The end of
the terraces wi l ! be construc
ted whh a broad lip outlet,
Houseknecht explained, to
spread the runoff water over
an area of permanent grass.
Any water which reaches the
foot of the hiJside through
this devious path will be
channeled to the newly-con
structed opening by a broad
diversion terrace.
Cropland terraces are con
structed on virtually the
same contour lines followed
in strip cropping, therefore
no change in rotation will
be required. While the con
struction _of terraces is-rath
er a severe measure, they
pose no special prob ems to
the farmer. Strip cropping
with conventional farming
tools will maintain the ter
races.
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