Factors Affecting Fill and Consequently Overnight Shrinkage in Range Cattle

Abstract

semi-slick conditions by contour furrowing. However, the fact that furrowed and seeded slick areas remained almost barren under protection from grazing shows that slicks cannot be completely elimiatned by this treatment. A different kind of furrowing treatment might have beneficially modified the slick soils. A contour furrowing machine that made small dams within furrows at intervals of about 40 feet was used on similar silty clay soils in the Willow Creek valley in 1955. Five years after treatment it was apparent that the small dams in furrows had prevented movement of water from the relatively impermeable slicks and provided conditions favorable for plant growth. LITERATURE CITED