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Excerpt from The Story of Soil Conservation in the South Carolina Piedmont, 1800-1860 Lieber and others agitated for a repeal of the fence law. The arguments used were that many animals were lost by being allowed to roam at large, that pure breeds of livestock were difficult to main tain under the system, that no manure could be saved, and that the destruction of woodland necessary to keep up fences caused erosion and silting. All these arguments seemed to indicate that the fence law no longer met the needs of the community, but a reform in the law was to await the post bellum period (5 50, pp. 105 - 106, 124 - 129) 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.
