. Berea Quarterly. being said and written about the ne-cessity of protecting the forest mountain slopes which feedthe rivers, and preventing the erosion of mountain F. O. Clark, Bereas instructor in Mountain Agricul-ture, believes that this erosion is almost always started inthe old fields, as they are called in North Carolina aswell as in Kentucky, and this view is supported by reportsfrom all parts of Appalachian America. It has been thecustom of the mountain farmer to plant a field in corn yearafter year, until the fertility of the land is exhausted, andthen abandoning that tract
. Berea Quarterly. being said and written about the ne-cessity of protecting the forest mountain slopes which feedthe rivers, and preventing the erosion of mountain F. O. Clark, Bereas instructor in Mountain Agricul-ture, believes that this erosion is almost always started inthe old fields, as they are called in North Carolina aswell as in Kentucky, and this view is supported by reportsfrom all parts of Appalachian America. It has been thecustom of the mountain farmer to plant a field in corn yearafter year, until the fertility of the land is exhausted, andthen abandoning that tract to clear some other spot. Theabandoned field soon begins to wash, and in the majority ofinstances is never repossessed by valuable forest. It isbelieved that laws could be so drawn as to prevent this evil,and thus save both the forests and the streams dependent onthem. But without waiting for any law we are teaching acrop rotation which will retain the fertility of the land sothat there need be no abandoned 9w. kc,ntoc««y f THE BOONE TAVERN. Our picture shows a building of great significance inBerea—the new Daniel Boone Tavern. The architectapologizes for its unfinished appearance above and wishesit to be understood that a third story is sometime to beadded. The house itself, under the immaculate manage-ment of Mr. Taylor, has been an instant success, andpromises to become one of the hostelries dear to touristsand visitors in the South. The name is well deserved, for Daniel Boone performedhis chief exploits in this immediate vicinity. Boonesbor-ough itself was northwest of Berea in the same county, andStation Camp Creek, where Boone and his brother madelong stays, is east of us. Boones Pinnacle is on our ownforest reserve east of Berea, and Scaffold Cane hill is twomiles south, and Boones Gap two miles southwest. Theredoubtable hero must have slept many times within a mileor two of the Tavern which bears his name. Berea, like Dartmouth and Northfield, is an isolate
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