xxviii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



PACING PAGE 



92. Loss of Fertility by Erosion 324 



93. A Georgia Field that Once Produced a Bale of Cotton 



per Acre, now Ruined Beyond Redemption by Gully- 

 ing 324 



94. Richness Running off in the Bottom of the Deep Furrow 



Made by Ridging this Cotton 325 



95. A "Break" of Corn Stalks Used to Check Gullying . 325 



96. A Fifteen Years' Growth of Long-leaf and Jersey Scrub 



Pines on a Southern Hillside Farm 332 



97. A Hillside that Gullied Badly Until Covered with Ber- 



muda Grass and Lespedeza 333 



98. The Dense Turf of Bermuda Grass 833 



99. Soil in Poor Texture 336 



100. Clod of Clay Soil; Decaying Stems and Leaves, which 



Become Humus 336 



101. Nodules, or Tubercles, on the Roots of Soy Bean . . 337 



102. Cowpeas on "Worn Out" Cotton Field 337 



103. A Field of Cowpeas Grown to Improve the Soil . . 340 



104. A Single Cowpea Vine, Twelve Feet Long, on a North 



Georgia Farm 340 



105. Velvet Beans Grown for a Green Manure in Florida . 341 



106. The Right Place for a Cover Crop To Protect the Bare 



Ground of the Corn Field Over Winter . . . .341 



107. A Common, and an Extremely Wasteful Method of 



Storing Farm Manures 348 



108. The Essence of the Manure 348 



109. Pond Covered with "Duck Meat" through Manure 



Draining into it 349 



110. Manure Wagon 349 



111. Manure Pile in the Field, to be Spread Later ... 362 



112. Spreading Manure from the Wagon on Corn Stubble . 362 



113. Buying in Sacks 363 



114. A Fertiliser Tag Taken from a Sack, Showing the 



Guaranteed Analysis of the Fertiliser 363 



