Erosion Control 
At the Erosion Experiment Station 
at Statesville, N. C., the soil washed 
away between June 1, 1931, and Dec¬ 
ember 31, 1931, was: 
From the fallow plot — 64.79 tons 
of soil per acre. 
From the corn plot — 17.22 tons 
of soil per acre. 
From the cotton plot — 11.88 tons 
of soil per acre. 
From the lespedeza plot — 2.22 tons 
of soil per acre. 
From another plot of lespedeza with 
a better stand the loss of soil was only 
0.8 tons per acre. 
W. A. COCHEL 
Editor Weekly Kansas City Star 
and Director of SONI-A-BAR Farms, 
observing Korean Lespedeza grown in 
gullies on a steep hillside August, 1932. 
