Just look at this floor.
You’d think a few of the cows
have been detouring through the
kitchen on their way to the bam or
that we have a dozen kids tracking
in and out of this house.
We have muddy tracks. We
have bits of hay and straw. We
have assorted sizes of gravel. We
have tiny bits of paper, a random
pin or two, several pieces of cat
food (guess which Idd did that).
Assorted dust balls, miscellaneous
dirt and mushy dark bits which
without even checking will as
suredly carry the same scent as the
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scrapings from the fccdlot.
And I just ran the vacuum
cleaner a day or so ago.'
“I don’t know where all this dirt
comes from,” I grumbled to The
Farmer in passing, as I steered to
ward the door, herding a couple
handfuls of the daily floor accu
mulation toward the outside with
the broom.
He offered a true dirt-farmer
explanation: “It’s called topsoil
retention.”
Now, he has always bear a firm
believer in soil conservation. And,
like many of our neighbors, we
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Easton, PA
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have installed numerous improve
ment practices in cooperation,
with soil conservation agencies.
There are terraces and grassed
waterways engineered into our
sloping hillsides. The fields curve
around those hillsides in contour
style planting, to hold the soil and
slow runoff. We practice mini
mum and no-tillage for much of
our crops plantings, keep a regular
crops rotation program and apply
manure, fertilizer, and lime as
much as possible in accordance
with soil samples.
A fishpone is now located
where our son’s hogs once wal
lowed in hog heaven along a small
portion of the creek just below the
springhouse. The stream exits it
for another hundred yards or so
underground through the meadow
below, to allow for equipment ac
cess to feeding areas behind the
bams without tearing up the sod.
A wide, long, stoned waterway
slows runoff from the Interstate,
runoff that once ripped through
the meadow and left long gouges
behind in the soil, growing deeper
with each heavy storm. And a
from 46HP
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spring site improvement, which
diverts a pasture spring watering
source into a drinking trough and
fences off the cattle’s former ac
cess to the ground source of the
water, is nearly finished.
Farmers believe in conserva
tion. Farmers believe in retaining
topsoil.
But on the kitchen floor? I don’t
remember seeing that spelled out
in any of the conservation man
agement plans I’ve ever seen.
But, gee, it’s a heck of an ex
cuse for a dirty floor.
“Please don’t pay any attention
to the dirt you see about my kitch
en floor,” we farm wives could as
sure guests, with a look of com
plete sincerity. ‘lt’s a new topsoil
retention program we’re experi
menting with in conjunction, we
practice minimum-sweeping, to
help hold down dust fallout
through the rest of the house.”
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 1, IW7-B7
Twenty years of wear and tear
on our wood-pattern, inlaid linol
eum flooring has shredded the
most heavily used pathways and
demands replacement. The pattern
has camouflaged the “topsoil”
very well over the years, and I’d
like to reinstall the same thing.
Except that it is no longer avail
able. Whites, lights, and plain dark
colors are out of the question,
since they’ll just showcase the
daily accumulation of droppings.
So, when I start dumping sam
ples of kitchen floor sweepings on
potential patterns to assess how
well the “topsoil” fades into the
pattern, it would be helpful if I
could explain to the floor covering
salespeople that it’s all part of an
agriculture conservation manage
ment plan.
Maybe the folks at Soil Conser
vation would consider this as a
new program?
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