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Ernest Boyce Facing Soil Erosion Problem Young Upper Chowan Farmer Adopts Effec tive Practices According to R. C. Jordan of the Soil Conservation Service, Ernest Boyce, an industrious young farmer of the Sign Pine, neighborhood of Chowan County, is conquering soil erosion on his Sandy Run farm. He is working effectively to establish ero siorj-control practices as outlined in his soil conservaton farm plan which he developed with the Albemarle Soil Conservation District. The farm on which Ernest lives is a good farm for the most of it. Two land areas, however, have been wash ing rather severely for a long time. On both of them the yellow clay sub soil has poked out its ugly face. The worst of the two has already lost 50 to 75 per cent of its top soil and was subject to lose much more since it • lies on a 5 to 8 per cent slope. The • field beyow its slope was being, cov ered with sand and silt. Gullies of considerable size had formed and con tinued to grow. Both of these erod ing fields were gradually getting worse. Soil fertility and the soil it self was being lost much too rapid ly. Under the ravages of such ac celerated erosion only a much worse situation could be anticipated. ; Erosion control practices were • planned in his farm conservation • plan, but they were new to Ernest . and to his community. Terracing and the companion measures suggested in Ihe plan were not familiar practices , and would require considerable effort and patience to establish. However, . ihe unarrested deterioration of his , land must be ended. He would put ■ the planned practices on the ground and with such an action program “do his part.” That was Ernest’s decision. With decision it became a resolution. As of now, one of the fields—the worst , one—has been completely terraced. Three-tenths mile of terraces have ■ been built. A permanent pasture of ; Ladino clover and orchard grass has , BELK-TYLER’S 1 Smart.... 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Ernest constructed his terraces with his “B” Farmall tractor and a three-disc John Deere tiller. A scoop pan was used to excavate high places in the water channel and to fill in the low places in the terrace bank. “It took hard work, too,” Ernest reminds himself. Os the results so far, however, he is manifestly proud. Surplus field water is no longer scouring down across unprotected slopes. It is be ing “walked” around the contour of the field and released gently into a wooded outlet by the terraces he lab ored to build. An aggravating prob lem has been largly whipped. The soil conservation farm plan which outlined the erosion control measures for the Boyce farm was de veloped last January. R. C. Jordan of the Conservation Service and E. S. White, vocational agriculture teacher of Chowan High School, as sisted Ernest and his mother, Mrs. Carrie Boyce, to set up the plan. George Conner, Jr., Soil Conservation aid, assisted Ernest to survey and to construct the terraces in the field. 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