| Show modern machine farmer builds up p for prosperity for years the farm equipment industry dealers manufacturers and trade publications have been active advocates of soil and water conservation and improvement of soil fertility one crop farms especially where tobacco cotton and corn were the cash crops began bringing home to them the fact that the nations wealth was leaching down the hillsides hill sides and into the streams that carried it to the ocean such lands were rapidly passing abin g out u of production ceasing to pay taxes and to support prosperous farm families and communities villages even counties faded with the farms as they wore out to awaken the nation to the consequences of this trend it if not doung counteracted ter acted the industry ion long g has laid stress upon the long pun pull benefits of soil conservation and the part that farmers can play in the program by using the tools already op on the far farms a and available tor for soil conserva conservation in efforts contour farming terracing and crop rotations in the united states go back to thomas jeffersons work in virginia virga well over a century ago writing in the american farmer in 1821 the ex president of the united states in n a signed article answered |
