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are also concerned in a special way with the land on your farm. No doubt you know a good deal about some of the different kinds of land that you are farming, but do you know the main good and bad points about all - each kind - of your land? Stream bottom lands, for example, are easy to recognize. Some are sandy, some are loamy, and some afe heavy (clayey). These vary. Some are welldrained, some are water-logged. Some soils take in water readily, some do not. You can think of many varia4 tions of land. It takes an expert to sort them out and help you decide which are really different in a way that counts under the conditions you use them. -

A trained, experienced technician, after thorough study on the ground, can appraise and describe the many different kinds of land that should be used or treated in different ways. Some land is nearly level, some is

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