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The article this week was
prepared by Elvin Hess, teacher
of vocational agriculture at
Elizabethtown Area High School.
And the rains fell, the floods
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AT FLEETWOOD . . .
Thoughts
in Passing
came and B reat was the
destruction that came upon the
land - When the floods went down
there was a layer of mud
everywhere. Mud in the attics,
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mud in bedrooms, mud in kit
chens and living rooms that had
never been flooded betore. There
was also mud in basements and
spring houses and meadows that
often get flooded.
And upon the hill sides there
were many gutters. Small gut
ters, medium sized gutters, and
large gutters throughout all the
plowed fields.
I am not attempting to rewrite
the Bible, but I think in the past
ten days most of us have thought
more about how little power we
have with our large tractors and
many electric motors than the
tremendous power of many little
rain drops.
We have learned to produce
food at a fantastic rate but we
can’t farm our soil without it
being washed down into our
meadow or someones house.
I do not believe that we can
completely eliminate distruction
from a flood such as we just had,
but I do believe that we are just
as responsible to protect the
fields that we plow as we are to
adopt the new ideas that put
dollars in our pockets such as
better feeding of our cattle and
better care of our crops.
Just as it took all the rain drops
from Agnes to cause the flood it is
going to take the efforts of
everyone that owns some land to
help cut down the distruction of
our floods. From what I saw in
the County, the greatest erosion
destruction was in the areas
where land owners say they don’t
need soil and water conservation
practices. Ironically these same
land owners have been taught
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that “the earth is the Lord’s and
that they are only stewards of the
land in their care.” I hope these
land owners will also think up
better excuses for not using
conservation practices than “I
don’t like crooked rows and three
cornered fields.” They also say
they don’t need soil and water
conservation on their farm. Now
is a good time to determine if you
need it or not. If you have Class I
land you do not need it What is
Class I land? It is land that had no
erosion or flooding from
“Agnes.” I think now you will see
how little Class I land we have.
It is also a law that a farmer
can be fined if he pollutes the
streams with soil. Most of us have
been taught to “Live above the
law.” You can live above this
pollution law and be more
responsible to the one who saw fit
to send us Agnes by adopting a
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soil and water conservation
program on your farm.
You can get this service only by
asking for it from the Soil Con
servation Service m the Farm
and Home Center or any vo-ag
teacher will be glad to help you as
well as Mr. Smith’s Extension
staff or even any neighbor who is
using conservation practices.
Your neighbor will probably tell
you that those three corners
aren’t as big as you think and
those crooked rows are longer
than straight rows and he may
even admit he is making more
money since he adopted con
servation practices.
I realize that next week you will
push the small gutters shut and
the next time you probably even
out the surface and then Agnes
will only be remembered as a bad
flood