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USE YOUR LAND
(Continued from page 7) informed about the work of various experiment stations and study the experience of a great many other > farmers. It is more convenient for him to follow the technical guidance of someone who is especially trained and experienced in this kind of thing. These are jobs on which it pays him to engage qualified help, the same as he does when his radio needs repa.r or one of his electric motors needs rewinding.
First, a land-capability inventory helps a farmer know and remember what kinds of land he has. A land specialist comes out to make this land-capability inventory for the use of the farmer and the soil conservationist when he visits the farm later. This land specialist, or soils man, carries an auger to get down deep into the subsoil so that he can examine the soil sufficiently to find out the good arid the bad points about it. He doesn’t map land just on the surface alone; he looks under the surface to find such things as good friable jday subsoil, gravely droughty subsoil, and other variations that can be found only by this painstaking examination.
You can’t tell what is inside a book just by looking at tlje cover. You must open it, read it. Likewise, you can’t just look at the topsoil and tell the kind of land. You must look inside, examine the' layers that are under the surface, and interpret what you find.
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