Show fences on the contour get rid of point rows contour farming fanning in a square fenced field usually makes a number of short rows or point rows in the corners many farmers in demonstration on areas are getting rid of the point rows which are a nuisance to cultivate by rebuilding fences to parallel the curvature of the contour says charles R enlow chief agronomist of the soil conservation service one farmer who had a permanent pasture adjoining a cultivated field added the point rows to the pasture and added some of the pasture at the upper swing of the contour to the cultivated portion of the farm I 1 in the end he had about the same acreage of pasture and cultivated land as before he protected the grass by not movin moving 9 the fence until the grass was firmly established when land next to a cultivated field has a soil that is rocky thin or unproductive it should not be added to the cultivated portion of the farm |