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Soil Conservation —
By C. E. Johnson, Jr. After ten years of practicing Soil Conservation, I am better sold on it than ever. In the first place, it is a matter of common sense and does not require a lot of "book learning.” In the second place, what I have done is even better than savings account of money, for my savings are in my own land, and are not affected by inflation. Whether farm prices go up or down I can now produce more food per acre than I could ten years ago.
On a couple of steep hills that were taken out of cultivation now stand some* locusts that are big enough for posts. My wood lots have some good young trees coming along.
My cultivating fields are now in contour strips and although hard rains sometimes wash theth some, no . soil has left the farm in recent years. By holding the water and using hybrid seed, I now get by with about 5 acres of corn where 20 were formerly needed. Even though the grass strips are not grazed, they give fine hay yields—better than if they were grazed down short in the fall.
With better pasture care, the broom sedge has about disappeared and one field that formerly carried 8 cows through the summer now carries 14 cows and their calves, or a cow and calf for each 2 acres.
Due to better water-holding capacity, plus top dressing, my hay yields are way up and about all the hay made is good hay, not weeds, and sticks.
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