Earth Dam Proves Effective In 

 Soil and Water Conservation 



Illinoiii fanners will plant more soy- 

 beans aiul barlLV, less corn anj oats 

 this year says A. J. Surratt, state aj;ri- 

 cultural statistician. An "intention" 

 survey shows 17 per cent increase in 

 soybean acreage, 23 per cent increase 

 in barley, four per cent decrease in 

 oats anJ one per cent decrease in corn. 



Shorter skirts call for more careful 



selection of shoes, says Miss Helen 

 Eads, University of Illinois. She fore- 

 casts the use of fabrics and soft leath- 

 ers, trimmed with patent leather, stitch- 

 ing and cutouts, for women's shoes this 

 spring and summer. 



"Tea-rime" may become an important 



time of day for American folk if the 

 diet experts have their way, says the 

 U. of I. Extension Service. Our energy 

 is at low ebb around four P. M.. they 

 point out, and a spot of tea with a 

 cookie or two would relieve that tired 

 feeling. 



Give stallions plenty of exercise, 

 clean feed, green grass' and sunlight, 

 says the Horse and Mule Association. 



C. E. Denman, formerly president of 



the National Livestock Marketing As- 

 sociation, has been appointed agricul- 

 tural counsel for the National Associa- 

 tion of Food Chains. Denman was 

 succeeded as president by E. A. Beamer 

 of Michigan. 



Michael Lyons of Livingston counrw 



for many years an lAA organization 

 solicitor and a brother of the late Joe 

 Lyons, died recently at his home in 

 Pontiac. 



The 23rd annual convention of the 



lAA will be held January 27-2.S. 1938. 

 Associated companies will meet Jan- 

 uary 26. 



If satisfactory h'vestock markets are 



to be maintaineil. farmers must rally 

 to their support through selling their 

 .inimals on the central markets, says 

 R. C. Ashby. associate chief in livestock 

 marketing. University of Illinois, col- 

 letre of acriculture. 



(Before) Gulley Just After Earlh Dam (in background) was Built in 1933 to Check Further Erosion. 



(After) Pond Formed In Front of Dam the Next 



'v ^V^HIS before and after picture 

 / shows the results of erosion 

 \_J control work in western Il- 

 linois by the Soil Conservation Service 

 and the Civilian Conservation Corps. 

 The water run-off of approximately 

 170 acres drained into the gulley shown 

 above. With each heavy r.iin. and in 

 the spring with alternate freezing and 

 thawing, the gulley worked its way 

 back towaril the rotated fields. It was 

 only a question of time until much val- 

 uable land would have been ruined. 



Hrosion control engineers from the 

 Mt. Carroll camp surveyed this situa- 

 tion early in 1933 and determined that 

 an earth iLim approximately 100 feet 



Year. The Gulley is Gradually Filling In. 



long and 25 feet high from the bottom 

 of the ditch to the top, should be built 

 across the lower end of the gulley. A 

 concrete culvert three feet square was 

 built on the upper side to carry over- 

 flow waters down through the dam and 

 out on the other side. As the water 

 flows into the pond formed by the dam, 

 the sediment is deposited. 



The lower picture shows the lake 

 that formed early in 1931. In three 

 years several feet of dirt have been 

 laiil on the bottom of the ponil. A 

 concrete flume was built last summer at 

 the head end of gulley to check further 

 "falling in." All the run-off from the 

 fields above are diverted into the dam 

 through tills flume by earth dikes. 



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