say this method will give a 90 per cent accurate tabulation ol' the acre es of the various soil types, land capability classes, and acres of land devoted to the various land uses in the county. This information will be available to the agricultural workers in the county and they in turn, using their knowledge of trends in the county, will prepare estimates of the con servation resource needs of the county for a period of the next ten j years. The soil mappers working in the county will not. be able to contact the land owners in most cases since they will not know who owns the land, and one block may include part of two or three farms. They emphasize the fact that finding the land owners would take more time than doing the job of mapping. They ask the cooperation of the land owners to allow them to go over the land if a block or part of a block should lull on their farms. Both soil men are employed by the Soil Conservation Service. Up dike is a recent graduate of VPI. Charles -Judy is area soil scientist for the Soil Conservation Service, and lias worked in Cumberland county at various times for well over ten years.

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