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By: W. H. Lyne __ I
County Ajrent §
While Hurricane Hazel created much damage, not to mention the loss of human lives, she brought rain—much needed rain. What a boost it is to see streams flowing whose beds have been dry for many months. Your heart and mind both get a boost when you see small grain sprouting through moist soil rather than the young seedlings peaking through dust or just a seedbed so bonedry that nothing has sprouted.
With pastures and many hayfields literally grazed into the ground run off was heavy. It is doubtful if over one fourth of the 4.59 inches of water that fell really soaked in; soaked in to the extent our below surface water table \vas helped to the extent it might have been.
And on the heels of the drought broken by Hazel comes “Conservation Week.” A week set aside to get us people more soil and water saving conscious.
Rough calculations indicate this rainfall amounted to around 145,000 gallons of water per acre. Could we have done a better job towards reducing the run-off?
True, neither Contour cultivation, farm ponds, nor trees growing on our steeper slopes could have stopped run off completely when that much water falls on a baked and practically bare surface in so short a time, however, every observing person realizes that where such farming practices were on the land they did reduce the run-off, they did hold more water, not as much soil was lost from our cultivated fields, less damage was done to our secondary road system. The cost through such losses
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