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Soil Saver Notes
Many prominent farmers have made numerous comments concernng the erosion damage resulting from the recent intense rains. One letter of particular interest from an outstanding farmer and citizen was recently received by the writer. The letter follows—
Beauregard Stock Farm
Brandy, Virginia. Dear Mr. Henretty:
The recent heavy rains have caused severe erosion on many of our Culpeper farms. I hope you have been able to get a picture of some of the washed away fields for use in our future Conservation work. These pictures can be used in our educational program to show our young people what damage one rain storm can do to* poorly protected fields. Last Wednesday afternoon, I stood upon the banks of Mountain Run and watched the swirling muddy waters taking away tons of good soil as well as trash, small grain and corn stubble which had been torn from the fields. A short drive on any highway leading out of Culpeper will show field after field recently plowed and in many cases seeded in fall crops that are now cut up and crisscrossed with gullies, in addition to the loss of soil, and in many cases high priced fertilizer, seed and labor, are gone for keeps. This, to my mind would he tragic under any circumstances, but today when we have the knowledge, tools and organizations with which to prevent this waste of our resources it is doubly tragic.
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