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Soil Saver Notes
Walter Slavik, recent purchaser of a farm near Amissville, completed a one half acre farm pond this week. Mr. Slavik located the pond near the homestead in order that it would provide fire protection for the farm buildings. The pond will furnish recreational facilities for the farm family.
Soil Conservation Service technicians assisted Mr. Slavik in locating the pond site and supervising the construction work. The proper number. and species of fish will be placed in the pond at a later date by the Culpeper Soil Conservation District.
Complete farm plans for soil and water conservation have been developed by Erich Hempert and Mr. H, L. Longerbeam, both Culpeper Co. farmers. Although there farms are small, a correct land use program will “be followed, and the proper amount of lime and fertilizer will*be applied.
A few farmers are of the opinion that their farms are too small* to practice conservation farming. This is definitely not true—no piece of land, regardless of size is too small to carry out the correct conservation practices. “Conserva'tion measures properly applied and maintained oh the land will pay dividends," says Dr. R. M. Salter, Chief Soil Conser- * vation Service, Washington, D. C. Many farmers in Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties having farmed the conservation way for a number of years, have proveft to themselves that Dr. Salter’s statement is true.
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