Show WHEN i CAME WERT y Robert In the year in t he southern part of Kansas there lived a family that we will call the Jenkins family Lucy and Wally moved to Kansas from a small town in Switzerland and upon arriving started a small farm where they produced a living until the mound so hare that the wind whipped the sand into at dust storms which destroyed property and livestock So gathering their along with their John and they moved There they settled In a small town In Utah called Here John and Nell grew up and with their parents help and instruction established a farm and a small herd of This family that to be a success they would have to protect the land so It would not he-come as the land In Kansas had To do this th divided the farm into Afferent sections according to Its various On the marshy ground was planted clover and being careful not to let the cattle and other stock In until the feed had grown a thick enough stand and the roots were deep into the By doing this It couldn't be uprooted or killed Then the stock were allowed to graze they were careful not to graze too many over the small The result was that they got more pounds of beef to less pasture On the sandy soil was planted different kinds of potatoes and These were rotated By doing this the minerals used one year or season by a certain crop were replaced another year by an exchange After harvesting the crops the stubble and remaining plant matter was plowed This helped replace the minerals taken from the Other minerals are replaced by adding and phosphate in accordance with the mineral requirements of the The remaining farmland was composed of clay and heavy Here alfalfa was planted which after a few years was rotated with for which a h ny market was found without much difficulty When the cattle off the mountains In the fall there were pastures and large slacks of hay prepared for the hungry cattle during the cold winter lt Using wise conservation practices the Jenkins family was aide to make a success of farming simply by not taking more from the soil than they put hack |