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SOU CONSERVATION NEWS
By JAMES H. GRIFFIN. SoU Con—grUoabl
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If you see a man walking over
your own or a neighbor’s farm,
carrying a board or what looks
like a walking stick with a big
corkscrew on the end, don’t
shoot him. He is not prospect
ing for metals, nor looking for
moonshine stills.
The man is a soil scientist for
the Soil Conservation Service.
He and other trained men like
him are busy these days making i
maps of Chowan County farms, j
They are the ‘‘scouts” of the!
Soil Conservation Service. Their
reports on these maps will be
used later by you and the work
unit conservationist in prepar
ing your soil and water conser
vation farm plan. All recom
mendations made by the Service
for improvement of the soil are
based on the soil and capability
maps made by the- soil scientist
after a careful survey of the
farm.
Farmers often ask Ed Karnow
ski, soil scientist in the Albe
marle Soil. Conservation District,
what he is drilling for or look
ing for when they see him using
his soil auger ... a walking
stick with a big corkscrew on
the end. Ed takes time to ex
plain that he bores the hole to
determine the depth and tex
ture of the soil. This tells him
the type of soil present and the
amount of erosion that has tak
en place. By addjjjg this infor
mation to the percentage of
slope abtained with a hand level,
he has three factors by which
Gavin Speaker At
Lions Club Meeting
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ation exists cn a state level,
pointing out that the eastern
section of North Carolina has
been neglected as compared to;
the Piedmont, where a strong
two-party system makes the
parties more responsive to the
will of the people and results in
obtaining more state support.
“A two-party system in gov
ernment controlled by two ma
jor political parties of -equal
strength,” he said, “each striv
ing to see which can do more
for the people of the state. Such
a system brings about more com
petition which naturally keeps
the party in power on its toes.
The spirit of competition which
made America great is greatly •
needed in our state government.”
Such a system, said Mr. Gavin,
will bring out better qualified
candidates and more of them.
He added that it will keep the.
people better informed on is
sues and state government and
the rights of the people will be
better championed, and said
such a system is essential to
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he classifies the land: soil, slope
and erosion. By the way, the
leather case hanging from his
belt is not a six-shooter but the
hand level used for determining
the slope of the land.
This information is necessary
for you to be able to make de
cisions in your soil and water
conservation farm plan. As you
know, even within a single field
there is often a big difference
in soil and the extent of erosion.
Steeper slopes have most of the
top soil eroded away while the
level areas of the field have a
build-up from the surrounding
slopes. Some soils are too wet,
some too dry, and others too
steep . . . the way of the land.
“A careful study and survey
of the soil and erosion conditions
on the farm has proven one of
the most important steps in the
whole-farm approach of control- j
ing erosion, getting adequate
drainage, and .improving fertili
ty -that is now being carried out
by the Albemarle Soil Conserva
tion District.
That is why detailed conserva
tion surveys are first made of
each farm in the district for
which a conservation plan is to
be developed,” says L. C. Bunch,
Chairman of the Albemarle Soil
Conservation District. “We ex
pect every district cooperator to
prepare a conservation plan for
his farm, says Mr. Bunch. Tech
nical assistance in planning his
farm will be furnished by us
I through the Soil Conservation
Service.”
j North Carolina and particularly
the eastern section.
’’Eastern North Carolina is
suffering from neglect because
I ‘you’ve been in the bag for one
party for so long,” said Gavin,
He called on the people of this
area to assert their political in
dependence to rectify this situ
ation. “You cannot expect a
change if you continue to vote
as you have in the past, but
change one time and you’ll see
a big change in the attention
from the state level.”
During his remarks he stated
his stand for' reVisidh 'of th*
highway program, referring to
the anticipated heavy influx of
traffic when the Chesapeake
Bay bridge-tunnel is completed.
He said action should be taken
now to prevent what he Teferred
to as “the greatest death trap
in the country.”
Mr. Gavin touched upon his
education program which calls
for increase in teacher salaries.
He also stressed the need for
industry in Eastern North Caro
lina and pointed out the need
for better highways and a more
adequate farm program to go
with it.
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