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YESTERDAY . . . TODAY
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At the end of 1940 the Maiers had made 40 bushels of barley to the acre (half of the corn land would now grow barley), 20 bushels of wheat, 45 bushels of corn and 1 1/2 tons of hay per acre. The fertilizer and lime program hadn’t changed since *1934, thus the major portion of these increased yields could be attributed to only one factor—the strip cropping had kept the rainfall and what fertilizer and lime that had been used in place where the crops could use them. The soil was staying put and it looked ilke the Maiers would too.
In the spring of 1941, I was called into the army. I got back to Botetourt in the fall of 1945 and one of my first farm visits was to the Maier’s. Mrs. Maier had died; Dorothy and
erosion of it may be wet and require a complete drainage system for use as pasture.
Class VIII land is suited only for wildlife, recreational, or watershed purposes. It is extremely rough, stony, or swampy.
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