Turn of the Season on Maryland Farm

Corn in the shock— wheat seed going in. An idyl of the ever-

productive cycle of the soil is this autumn scene on a nearby Maryland farm as Farmer Garrett drills wheat with his bumper shocks of corn in the background.

"^HOMAS M. GARRETT'S hard-working and practical devotion to the soil of his rolling acres near Rockville, Md., reaches bock through generations of his family by which this

farm has been his heritage. A graduate of the University of Virginia, he mixes plenty of science with the "dirt" farming that goes along with his dairying speciality. Also he mixes plenty of his own manpower with it. In particular, as shown in the above picture, no hand on the Garrett farm but Farmer Garrett himself is entrusted with the important job of planting seed.

Farmer Garrett frankly was in a hurry with his wheat drilling—or planting—the day we

caught him in this "turn of the season" picture on his farm. He later explained his slight impatience at the intruding camera by saying he was in a hurry to finish up and get to the Maryland-Virginia football game at College Park Sure, he was rooting for Virginia— but his son, a Maryland student, was on the other side!

Before he got away to the game we gleaned from Farmer Garrett that not only is his heart rooted in his Maryland soil, but also he plants a lot of care and thought there. So his farm not only has that well-groomed look, but it produces. Sometimes a field will yield two summer crops in time to plant wheat in the fall. For instance, a profitable crop of peas, a good crop of com—then wheat in the same ground.

An autumn blend of corn shocks * and a changing oak, across the

I rood from a stone fence on the Garrett farm.

Another view of the wheat drilling below the crest of corn shocks. In the foreground are bulging bags of seed wheat waiting to be dumped into the driller. star staff Photos