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THE FINISHED PRODUCT 

 Water from 200 acres will drain through 

 this concrete flume and stop further gullying. 



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CCC BOY5 FROM ELMWOOD SOS CAMP 

 Preparing steel reinforcing rods for con- 

 crete flume. 



falls away fast in all dircttions was 

 thick, upstanding hybrid torn ;;rowing 

 in drilled rows. Bit; yellow cars with 

 two on every stalk. A pretty piece of 

 corn that looks ^'ood for (■•'> bushels an 

 acre. 



How does Miller do it ^ Well, lime- 

 stone and alf.dla to bei^in with. The 

 yellow loess up .iiui liown the >(iss- 

 rssippi en|ovs a limestone sh.unpoo 

 topped off with a seeiiinu of altalta or 

 sweet clover that ;:ets down into its 

 vitals. livery ^'ood farmer knows that 

 when you put humus in the soil it 

 eioesn't wash so readily. Hut that's 

 only part of the story. >'ou lan t stop 

 erosion and make water stay on a hill 

 by plovvint; under altalfa. But you lan 

 by terracing,'. 



Henry Miller iluln't wait for the 

 conservation tamj-> to haul a lot of 

 lieavy terracing' machinery up there. 

 He hookei! up his li^uiit traitor to a 

 two-bottom plow and started throwing 

 tlirt in riil.ues .ibout "iO feet aj\irt. He 

 followed the stakes set around the hill 

 by the camp enuiiieers. A home rnatle 

 V-shaped dr.ig was used to timsh the 

 job. 



Now Miller's terr.il es aren t .is broad 

 and prolessional-luokini; as some you'll 

 see. But they do the business. He 

 built more than a mile of them last 

 sjiring between oats sowing and corn 



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ANOTHER CEMENT FLUME GOING IN 

 On Jim Sloane farm west of Yates City. 

 Knoi County. 



planting. The terraces tollow the ion- 

 tour and you find corn rows right on 

 top of them, down the sides, and in 

 the trenches. Oooked corn rows, of 

 course. Hill drop corn in drilled rows, 

 yes. But cleaner torn you never saw, 

 although it was plowed only one way. 

 When you want to learn about ter- 

 racing go out and see what happens 

 after a heavy rain. Better, put on boots that in the drilled rows. Hut there was 



a lug diifertnie in tlie damage from 

 w.ish. livery corn row running with the 



terraces above. When soil laden water 

 hits the alfalfa butter ' it hesitates and 

 dumps its silt right then and there. 

 That s how Henry is keeping the top 

 side of his farm up where it belongs. 

 I checked one field of corn this 

 year," he .said. It s llie last I'll plant 

 that way ' 



The iheikeii lorn was no better than 



and a shtker and go when it's raining 

 pitchforks. The trenches at the bottom 

 ot the Miller terraces were filled with 

 yellow water . . , water that otherwise 

 would have bem galloping down hill 

 to the creek with a rich load of top soil. 

 That w.iter was so.iking in. leaving a 

 riih toat ot silt in the back furrow, a 

 likelv spot lor hiiskv loni j^l.mls next 

 ve.'.r. 



l.immg. .lilaila .ind terr.uing on 

 w.ishv Kind go f.ir toward holding the 

 soil. But there-, .mother ste]-> to ilinih 

 It. Tint's a gr.iss or .ilfalta buffer 

 strip. Miller has Ins fields l.iid out now 

 into six aire strips. There .ire 10 of 

 them. SIX in alt.illa. the others in lorn 

 and oats. Below the i orii field he .iiins 

 to li.ne a strip o( .ill, lit. i just in i.ise 

 any w.iter or soil gets away from the 



slope was gullied. 



I'd Bast, ten.mt on the I.iwrenie 

 Wurster farm in the same lounty, is 

 mother loinert to lontour and strip 

 farming. The fields are laid out ion 

 tour stvie ai^prtiximafely 1(K) teit wide 

 A furrow is plowed out in the lenter 

 of e.ich strip anil the boundaries are 

 j-.ir.illel to the i enter furrow. Short 

 rows .ire eliminated by keeping the ir- 

 regular pieies o( land between the 

 fields 111 .ilfalla. These |\itilies of al 

 t.ill.i mi.idow hold (lie soil, lalih anv 

 silt tli.it mav get aw. IV in the w.ish 

 from the lultiv.iled strij>s. .iiul make 

 i|uite a lot of hav. 



( iiltivated strips (>(l lut wide ,ire 

 reiommetided for steeper slopes, widir 



THIS IS THE LIFE 



Their pay $30 a month — $25 goes to their parents or 



guardians on relief. 



BROAD BASE TERRACE FULTON COUNTY 



On Joe Garlish farm to protect gentle slope against sheet 



erosion. 



