Show way to stop erosion uncle sam has originated a 1 unique cultivator which digs 1000 holes a large as a big straw hat per acre in the surface of tillable fields subject t to losses these holes act as pockets which hold rain rainwater water as it falls until it can be absorbed by the boll fifty thousand gallons of water per acre is thus stored in the soil as aa essential moisture instead of racing away as the efficient agency of erosion on fields tilled with this new cultivator soil wash losses have been reduced to about 1 per cent as compared with the average loss of 34 per cent which occurred before the new system of cultivation ti was begun american farmers and farming will save annually the tribute now paid to erosion if the defense Is permanently successful cess ful philadelphia inquirer |