| Show CATTLEMEN WARNE D SOIL WOULD BLOW AWAY lamar colo fifty years ago aco resentful cattlemen told the southeastern colorado homesteaders this buffalo grass should never be plowed th ehg e 1 antl land will just dry up and the nv wind i n adwill will blow it away and you with it that prediction is recalled as the wind HAS blown part of the land and away but the homesteaders now substantial citizens stand with feet firmly planted on their wind property preparing for modern agricultural experts side with the old timers that the land never should have been plowed A J hammond prescribed a complete rest cure for two or three years as the only hope of the dry farm lands whose top soil had been hurled as high as three miles into the air ail by terrific winds for several weeks the farmers were making plans to ao move 50 head 0 cattle to pasture lands i ita ditth the e beada wo Color colorado adb gattle wt fa ang ns and nd the plains of kansas for the pummer this abi hammond Hani roond said would speed recovery in the just dust plagued region ire he also said the ol 01 were right A considerable pai part ot of this dry land should be permitted to go back to buffalo grass weve plowed some land that never should have been disturbed it will recover more quickly it if the cattle leave for a while we have overgrazed over grazed the land so the grass that once held the soil against wind Is gone our experiments show much of the grass is dead from drouth and dust only a cessation of grazing can restore the remainder reports of the exodus of the fa farmers amers from southeastern colorado because of the dust storms was exaggerated exaggerate e 1 I if |
