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Soil Saver Notes
Soil Conservation Service technicians, working- in co-operation with the Culpeper Soil Conservation District, assisted Lewis .1. T rner in laying out and marking 22 acres of land to he planted in apple trees on the contour. Erosion may be found at its worst in improperly managed orchards. A conservation program of orchard soil management is being set up on the Turner farm each year a> addtional trees are planted. This program Is designed to hold the greatest quantity of rainfall in T:'.e orchard for future use by the trees-, and to hold soil losses to a minimum. Contour orchards are well adapted to cultivation and
the lev^d rows make it much easier to pull heavy loaded sprayers, wagons and other equipment along between the rows.
■J. rar!ton_(_y.4« si CIojchj—Culpeper; C. R. Tinsley, (iriffinsburg; Fail-view Farms, Culpeper; and Mrs. Elizabeth H. DoBergh, Washington; established open ditch drainage systems on their farms tills week. Carlton '('lore had old ditches cleaned and straightened. ('■' R. Tinsley constructed open ditches to drain an area of wet crop land. Fairview Farms clean'd and straightened an old ditch and cleared additional adjoining land of rocks, brush, and stump-, wh:ch after being limed and fertil.z.ed wdl be -ceded with proper mixture of orchard grass and !ad:tlo clover. Mrs. I)e|!ergh drained a set swampy area it, a pa-tuie field. Ail of the a'hore work was *: ■ ■ 1 '■ by a d rag!. rip, tie- <!.;•» vri, 1 ■e -p' ead wit a I till ...’ < r dale.
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