Her* ara County and Township Officials in charge of Administration of the Soil Conservation Program in Tazewell County 





Soil Conservation Is 

 Making Good Progress 



Making steady progress, the nevr soil 

 conservation program has now advanced 

 to the point where work sheets have been 

 set up on approximately 1,500, or 65% 

 of the farms in Knox county, Farm Ad- 

 viser A. R. Kemp reported May 15. Prog- 

 ress in Knox county is typical of what's 

 going on in other counties throughout 

 Illinois. 



Work sheets for Henderson, Elba, 

 Sparta, and Persifer townships have 

 been completed and checked for several 

 days, these being the first to be turned 

 in by the community committeemen. 

 Other townships from which work sheets 

 have been turned in are: Rio, Ontario, 

 Walnut Grove, Copley, Cedar, Orange, 

 Haw Creek, and Salem. Filling out work 

 sheets on the remaining townships in the 

 county is being pushed by community 

 committeemen so that the next steps in 

 the program can be started immediately. 

 These will be the making up of listing 

 sheets, showing the reported soil-deplet- 

 ing crop acreage for each farm in the 

 county by communities. 



After necessary adjustments are made 

 in the figures on this listing sheet, each 

 farm in the county will be assigned its 

 proper soil-depl^ing base. This base will 

 be figured from the 1935 acreage of 

 crops, adjusted to meet special condi- 

 tions. 



"Farmers need not delay until they 

 get notice of their soil-depleting base 

 before shaping up their cropping plans 

 to qualify for the maximum payments," 

 said Kemp. - .,,: 



"Notice of their soil-depleting bases 

 will be sent to all farmers in the county 

 within the near future, but in the mean- 

 time it will pay to do a little figuring. 



"First, add up the acreage of your 

 corn, oats, wheat and other soil-deplet- 

 ing crops in 1935. This may not be your 

 official soil-depleting base, but for the 

 average it will be fairly close. 



"Fifteen per cent of this soil-depleting 

 acreage should then be diverted to soil- 

 conserving crops. These can be legumes 

 or they can be grasses seeded with a nurse 

 crop, the nurse crop to be clipped or 

 pastured before grain is formed. The 

 nurse crop can not be cut for hay or 

 grain on land for which class 1, soil- 

 conserving payments are desired. 



"With the season as late as it is, farm- 

 ers may have to make special provisions 

 for the 15 per cent of their soil-deplet- 

 ing acreage which they devote to soil 

 conservation in 1936. A farmer who al- 

 ready has seeded down a big acreage of 

 small grain to soil-conserving crops need 

 only pasture or clip enough of these 

 acres to qualify for his 15 per cent." 



The Lasalle County Farm Bureau re- 

 cently published a 68 page farm directory 

 containing names and addresses of every 

 farmer in the county. It is well illustrated 

 with pictures and contains articles and 

 tables of value and interest to farmers. 



Livestock Men 

 Have Busy Program 



A demonstration of livestock grading, 

 a 4-H Club tour to Peoria's market, » 

 county meeting for all livestock pro- 

 ducers with a special program arranged, 

 and a cattle feeders' tour are some of 

 the things planned for the rest of the 

 year by the Fulton County Livestock 

 Committee, according to Lee Harris, 

 chairman. 



The committee met recently for the 

 purpose of completing details of the 

 marketing program in that county. Last 

 year Fulton County marketed 637 c&n 

 or 22 percent of all its livestock co-op- 

 eratively. 



Conference for 



Women Planned 



Uncle Ab says that the more learning 



a man has the less trouble he is likely 

 to have. ,■:... ..... .--^ - 



A mid-summer conference, July 20-24. 

 at the Woman's Building, State Fair 

 Grounds, Springfield, is being sponsored 

 by the Illinois Home Bureau Federation 

 and Home Economics Extension of the 

 University of Illinois. 



Mrs. Elsie Mies, Urbana, and Mrs. 

 Kathryn Van Aken Bums, State leader 

 of Extension work, are in charge of ar- 

 rangements. Plans are being made for 

 100 women, with all the 42 counties rep- 

 resented. Facilities for sleeping, eating, 

 plenty of showers, are provided in the 

 building. 



The program is to consist of training 

 schools in organization and legislation. 

 Recreation will be provided. Several trips 

 to places of interest around the State 

 Capitol have been planned. On the last 

 day of the conference, open house wiH 

 take the place of the Federation State 

 picnic. ' \ ..',, ;,.,"• '^ ."■■.= 



Jl'NE. 19.36 



