Mercur Miner | 1907-10-23 | Page 4 | The Top Soil

THE. TOP SOIL.. Its Value Compared with Subioll Not Well Understood. The value of top soil as compared with subsoil Is not understood as !t ought to be. If tho great contrast between the two was sufficiently impressed im-pressed upon mnny, they would uso every reasonable effort to keep bui-race bui-race soil In place. It may bo carried away by wind or wnter, especially the latter. This explains why In so many soils the low places aro so much more productive than the higher land. Soil nnd humus have been curried cur-ried downward, leaving the high lands cnmpnintlvcly unproductive Such denudation may bo checked materially, ma-terially, ir not entirely prevented, by . , plowing along tho slope, rathor than up and down It. by keeping tho land well Blocked with grass roots, nnd by-refrnlnlng by-refrnlnlng from working tho land as-far as-far as this may bo posslblo during tho season when denudation Is most likely to occur.