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Show Moisture Conservation Helps With Wheat Crop A 30-acre field that had produced little during the last few years, even with favorable moisture conditions, con-ditions, produced a good wheat crop, according to the Kansas state college extension service. "A combination of things made the land productive again," a conservation con-servation district cooperator said. "Use of sweet clover, seeded in the spring of 1948, for green manure and terracing, and contour farming for moisture conservation were important." im-portant." The land, he explained, was badly eroded. The soil was thin, dense and hard to work. It had not produced a decent crop in the previous six years and was practically idle land. Gullies were plowed shut after the terraces were built, so that the whole field could be contour farmed. In addition, grass waterways were developed and more terraces planned. |