HENRY MILLER, LEFT. A. E. ROSE SUPT. PIPER 

 "Hi. ambition - ♦» make . good farm better. 



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rn that fellow over tlicrc 

 tuttint; Lapcrs on the land- 

 st.ipe. Look at him go 

 'rouiui iiie hill. What s he doinj:, 

 writing a ligiire S with that traitor.^ 

 Suth crooked plowing. And lie's leav- 

 ing strips between the lands. Is the 

 guy crazy.' ■ 



You'll hear plenty ot siah remarks 

 from the uninitiated within the next 

 few years. Biit believe it or not that 

 aroundthehill plowman isn't diz/y. 

 asleep, or cracked. More than likely, 

 you 11 find him a level-headed, alert 

 felloM- ... a member ol his county soil 

 conservation association ... a recruit 

 in the growing army of contour farm- 

 ers. 



All over Illinois, wide-awake folks 

 are keenly watching this big new thing 

 in agriculture. C.ontour and strip farm- 

 ing on rolling land are coming. A 

 handful of co-operators encourageii by 

 County l-'arm Bureaus and soil con- 



WHIRLWIND TERRACER DRIVEN BY CCC 

 GEO. SHOLTIS 

 "She Shore Can TKrow the Dirt." 



By GEORGE THIEM 



servation camps are leading the way. 

 'I'hey compare with the first users of 

 limestone, the pioneer sweet clover and 

 alfalfa growers, the original boosters 

 ot vaccination against hog cholera, and 

 the leaders in a host of other new 

 wrinkles flow accepted as good f.irm 

 practice. 



Not long ago we stood in the barn- 

 yard of Henry Miller, Carroll County 

 Farm Bureau member. You can look 

 over the roof of the old Miller home- 

 ste.id and see one of his fields atop the 

 hill. Here on these 120 rugged acres, 

 Henrys father, a Cierm.in immigrant, 

 settled I? years ago. And here Henry 

 has grown to manhood wise in the ways 

 ot stopping that farm from sliding 

 down into the creeks and rivers of 

 northwestern Illinois. 



It's my ambition to leave this farm 



better than I found it,' he said simply. 

 An ambition worthy of any man. 



Led by Supt. L. R. Piper and A. E. 

 Rose, agronomist, of the Mt. Clirroll 

 Soil Conservation (amp, we climbed 

 the slippery yellow clay road up a steep 

 grade. It was drizzling, the tail end of 

 an IX hour rain. An astonishing and 

 beautiful sight awaited us. Across the 

 hills and valleys of this unglaciated 

 area were cavernous ravines and gulleys 

 capable of swallowing a freight tram 

 with plenty of room to spare. But on 

 the Miller acres there were no gaping 

 wounds in Mother Larth. Thick blue- 

 grass carpeted the water courses. Here 

 and there were little dams and dikes, 

 some home-made in earlier years, others 

 built more recently by the C(X boys. 

 These little mounds'of earth guided 

 water around to grass tUimes where it 

 slowed up to a walk in its inevitable 

 march to the sea. 



On to|-> of the hill where the land 



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HYBRID CORN A LA CONTOUR 

 "Alfalfa Sod and Terracing — A Fine Combination." 



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