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Excerpt from Conservation Farming in Selected Areas of the Southern Piedmont Part of the land withdrawn from farming before 1953 was steep, eroded, or otherwise unsatisfactory even for pasture. Much of the other land in woods or Open but unused for crops or pasture in 1953 would be of limited value for cotton or corn. But it could be redeveloped for production of winter grains, hay or forage, or to supply pasture or grazing for dairy or beef cattle. Int 1955, a high percentage of the land diverted from cotton as a result of the reapplication of allotments was used for other crops or shifted to pasture. A reduction of about 25 percent in the acreage of crops for harvest in 1958 stemmed mainly from the temporary assignment to the Acreage Reserve of most of the acres allocated to cotton. Although some crop and pasture fields were turned out or planted to protective crops for other reasons, nearly as many acres were restored to farming. A major reduction in the number of acres planted to cotton, combined with a slight decrease in the acreage of corn, was reflected in a decline in the percentage of the cropland in row cr0ps from about two-thirds in 1953 to a third in 1958. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.