Show MUSH it happens that reclamation tion t on work pays bigger dividends on some farms than clearing land of timber and stumps the farmer that permits a swamp to take a big chunk out cf his producing acreage Is hardly worthy the name and lie is not only losing fat sums annually but tho atio swamp besides being an unsightly blemish Js Is also alo a breeding place for disease ln in this day and age it is not always necessary for a farmer who owns a miniature of the everglades to c call all for state and federal aid to rid him of his muck and mud the average farm swamp is not beyond the control of one man and one man reclamation work wark it if intelligently directed need mot cost a fortune hard work and a little brain work will usually turn the trick at least this prescription lias has fulfilled its office on oil a western farm where a large salt water marsh has just been snatched from the sea and converted into a producing field and aad the beauty of reclaimed s swamps lies in the fact that they invariably yield soil superior to anything else in ili the vicinity Tricia ity on Green greenbank bauk tarm farm in western washington thirty seven and a traction acres which formerly were covered by sea water at high tide are now ready for crops and grain was even produced irod ou on a small scale in patches es as the work of reclamation was under way vay notwithstanding that the soil sell had not inot vet tet rid itself wholly of light sea brine the area reclaimed at greenbank lies five feet below high tide therefore it has been necessary to build a substantial sea wall to keep the water outs out once it was forced out to save money this wall was built ot of field stone gathered from every corner of tile the farm the labor was fumi furnished shed by regular employees at odd times and bi extra labor occasionally hired by the day the sea wall is 1050 feet in length and about four feet thick its height is about the same as its thickness |