Show Brushy Really Help Hel p to Conserve Soil Balt Baltimore lined with i t. t bushes small trees even weeds were praised as genuine assets to the land by Frank C. C Edminster of the United States soil conservation service before belore the annual North American Wildlife conference Dislike of brushy started start start- started started start start- ed with the belief that they harbored harbored harbored har har- bored crop pests as indeed they sometimes do Mr Edminster ad ad- But even when they do not they are now considered evidence of bad farming It has become fashionable farming to demand clean fields Yet those same brushy alTer several very substantial advantages advantages advantages ad ad- vantages the speaker pointed out They aid in hi holding the soil along margins field-margins against erosion and gully formation they shelter birds that aid farmers by eating insects and weed v seeds and they can produce produce pro pro- duce incidental volunteer crops of their own like berries and fence- fence posts Most important of all they offer otTer shelter to game birds and animals ani mi mals that otTer offer enjoyment sport and ind nd supplementary food supplies to the landowner r- r |