Show Our country country Is Is' Is hilly a anti and d wo we o ove nave ve been In the habit habl o plough plough- ploughing I Ing in straight rows whether up upend lull hill oblique lines I Ir end anti nd down in cr or r however h however the they lead and our toll toil was all running Into the riv rl ers We now plough horizontally following the curvatures of the hills and hollows on the dead level however crooked the lines may be Every furrow Currow thus acts as a reservoir to receive and retain retain retain re re- tain the tho waters all of which go goto goto goto to the benefit of or the growing plant Instead of running of off Into the streams In a farm horizontally horizontally horizon horIzon- tally and deeply ploughed scarcely scarcely scarce scarce- ly Iy an ounce of oC soil son is now carried off from it Thomas It-Thomas Thomas Jefferson in a n. letter written In 1813 to Charles Peale |