Show He Dug up The Proof W. A. Rockie of the Soil Conservation Service tells this story of how a mowing machine finally convinced one fanner that erosion on his farm was more serious than he had Before the soil conservation experiment station was established at in says the conservation service held meetings in several adjoining communities to sound out the sentiment of At a Palouse farmer spoke up emphatically in He didn't want any such as the study of But the station was not only as a research center for erosion also as an important nursery for testing and breeding plants useful in holding soil in Five years later the same farmer called at the station office and admitted he had been The farmer's as he had just occurred the preceding He had moved to his farm 28 years earlier and in the rush of the passing years had never really cleaned his farmyard until the day before he visited the He told how in disposing of trash he found the seat of a mower lying in A kick failed to loosen He dug around tho scat bar and continued to Finally he unearthed the whole of a mower he had discarded 27 years At least 28 inches of soil had washed in and lodged in the weeds around the mower in the farm This had washed off of his crop |