Show Strip Cropping St SI ri rip p Cropping Advised by hy AAA Soil Experts I Less Uintah county comity landIs landI land hind is isnow I Isnow now blowing away by hy the till wind las liS a result of A AA AAA A A i lIIn Las I tion lion practices Gay ay Gardner lr i Umlah county AAA A A A commit tah I tel tee member declared this tillS week w No longer is tin till rich null top tip soil snit gone with the shy wind but bul in nl instead stead it is in tit place to ti produce produCt good crops The land landis is tied down by strip triP cropping or of protected summer fallow Whore Where the land has lias not bran been protected by crop crap or proper till tillI Ii It I age i il l methods the till MM soil oil I has Ims blown hlo 1 down to plan sole Mull continued Mr Gardner While strip cropping is i not nal nali 1 i I common practice in Uintah iIi county it I t con COli be bl used to la good gurd advantage on many of our I farms Strip cropping is IS arcuni by planting a strip of I alfalfa On dry dry farms a strip f fallow and a strip of crop crap an n planted plan Purpose l of the th strip N t- tto i to lu prevent the wind svind from mik 1111 ing a full free sweep WIP across tin t hh entire entin field Another method of protecting land against wind windem erosion em shin is i 1 n h III leave Ilave the stubbly stubble in thy the soil oll Farmers who I hn sih hh to their lands by the strip nol ping system may I obtain assi ato a I ance through the th County Coun ty A A 1 A program Mr Cn ii 11 |