Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 5
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 7, 1931
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USES HOMEMADE IMPLEMENT IN
BUIDING TERRACES

       Rosebud Farmer Expects to Build Land up to Original Production

       Building terraces with a homemade terracing plow, Silas Criddle, Rosebud, route 1, has the land planted in corn and peas and states he expects to eventually build the land back to yield 40 bushels of corn per acre, which it produced when he started cultivating it 23 years ago.  The last year he had it in corn, the yield was 10 bushels per acre.

       Last fall, when Dan Clinton, Falls county farm agent, held a terracing demonstration on the farm, Mr. Criddle asked if a long-winged plow would do the work satisfactorily.  Since the land is of a sandy type, the county agent suggested that he try this implement.  Whereupon, Mr. Criddle hied himself to this local blacksmith shop and had a three-foot wing made to fit his nine-inch Oliver plow.  Mr. Criddle called in the agent to see what had been accomplished.  Mr. Criddle had had one or two rains on his terraces and there they were, 18 feet wide and 2 ½ to three feet high, and in shape to be hold almost any kind of rain, the county agent says.

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