Department Bulletin 14 30 
PLATE XIV 
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Fig. 1. — Once a part of a farm. Corn can be seen on the land still in cultivation. Fayette 
County, Tenn. 
Fig. 2.— A strip from this field has had free transportation down the Tennessee River. Carroll 
County, Tenn. 
EROSION OF FARM LAND 
The yearly burden of the Tennessee River is 11,000,000 tons of soil, in large part from lands 
such as these. The Army engineers' report on the Tennessee River notes the extensive 
deposits of silt in the reservoir at Muscle Shoals already materially reducing its pondage 
