Book excerpt: Strip cropping as commonly applied in erosion control or soil conservation practices consists of seeding the regular farm crops, adapted to the locality, in long bands or strips lade out as nearly on the contour as ill admit of uniform width, and so arranged that adjacent strips will not be plowed at the same time. If these strips are used in connection with terraces, the cultivated row crops will usually be uniform in width with the irregular areas seeded to non-cultivated crops.