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THE MANAGEMENT OF MARSH LANDS 



(Fig. 194). Summer and early fall breaking is advisable. Subse- 

 quent plowing may be done by the use of the ordinary plow. 



Fig. 195. — ''Sticking " corn immediately after burning. Soil about eighty per'cent organic 

 _, . matter. (North Carolina.) ^ . 



Fig. 196. — " Stuck " corn on burned-over land. (North Carolina.) 



Some peat and muck lands, as in eastern Carolinas, are covered 

 with a thick growth of brush and trees which fill the soil so full of 

 tough roots and stumps that breaking is exceedingly difficult or 

 impossible. In such cases the brush is cut and burned and corn 

 planted without any attempt at breaking (Fig. 195 and 196). 



