Show conservation notes note S by W V earl Rhin eInart continuing dr bennetts article on conservation varming panning Is safe farming fanning let us take up where we lett left off last week dr bennett states now let us look at gullies ordinarily they are a serious farm hazard ever v e r present though sometimes hidden these treacherous ditches cause accidents and machinery breakage when equipment twists and jolts all suddenly la in crossing field gullies especially s ally at harvest time here again conservation farming is an all answer terracing contour oil cult Iti hatlon strip cropping and other soil saving practices eliminate gullies and prevent acci ints farm fires are reported to have caused a loss of nearly last year much of this loss was attributed to tires fires that started in ift dry grass or grain fields burning the crops and oftentimes spreading to barns and other farm buildings but with such conservation practices as strip cropping a particularly cu valuable alu able practice the plowed land or green crop adjoining the dry crop acts as a firebreak and the fire burns only that one strip instead 0 ol 01 spreading over the entire field farm woodlands that are kept clean of dead and rown down trees are less likely to suffer from fires that destroy this valuable farm product conservation farming no not t 0 only aly helps to prevent tires fires but bu t it also may supply badly needed water with which to tight fight far farm fires thousands of farm ponds have been built throughout the country tor for livestock water and to furnish recreation and fish tor for food they often are situated so BO as to provide a dependable source ot of water tor for tire fire lighting fighting one might think that accidents on roads and highways have little to do with farming wo we have seen eroded highways atter after a heavy rain covered with slime allme silt and earth slides a serious hazard to traffic especially around curves mark this too often the debris has washed from abutting farm land that has been neglected uncontrolled water rushing out onto highways continues its ravishing action acion t in roadside drainage ditc ditches fies the water from one rainstorm alone can gouge out gullies three and four feet deep adjacent to highways these gullies are a monaco menace to the oncoming car whose wheels may stray 0 oft ff the hard surface of the road |