Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 8 · column 5 of 5 · from the scan, no model involved
they had to endure. In addition they were ridiculed no end by their neighbors for “such d—n fool notions as fanning in ribbon patches.” “If you can’t do no better a farmin’ than that get out” Farmers even sneaked onto the hill the back way to see what “Crazy Maier” was adoin’l
Well “Crazy Maier” made it much ^easier for me tq get the Natural Bridge Soil Conservation District started, which has helped Botetourt County just as has the Culpeper District (formed about the same time) helped the Rappahannock farmers who were once “crazy Maiers” but now are recognized instead as sage men on the land. “Crazy Maier” and farmers like him have made it unnecessary for the man with a plan on the land to be ridiculed.
Yes, sir, folks, get a soil conservation plan, put it on the land, tie the two securely to a sound over all farm management plan. You, and each of us, will prosper the more, each of us living now as well as those to come by 1975 or the twenty hundreds, but remember, as Edwin G. Nourse says, “The Nineteen Fifties Come First.”
79.4%