-.£■ 



Wilfred Shaw, director of milk mar- 

 keting, has been appointed producers 

 representative on the milk price arbi- 

 tration board at the St.- Louis market. 



Talmage DeFrees o^Bond County 



shipped his first tar dr^ples Sept. 14 

 through the tl^ Fruit Growers Ex- 

 ' change to Sioux City, la. They were 

 No. 1 Jonathans. Apples are bringing 

 75c to 95c per bu. FOB shipping point. 



Pres. Earl C. Smith was recently ap- 

 pointed a member of a planning com- 

 mittee of 11 Illinois business and civic 

 leaders to draft a report on re-employ- 

 ment and relief. The committee was 

 named by John Martin, chairman of 

 the Illinois Emergency Relief Commis- 

 sion. 



Two police squad cars flunked the 

 I. A. A. Safety Lane test in Decatur 

 recently, reports the Decatur Review in 

 an article illustrated with a picture of 

 the police car going through. More 

 than; 100 cars were tested before noon. 

 All taxicabs, trucks, and messenger cars 

 in the city were ordered to take the test 

 by Chief of Police Schepper. 



The Class I price of milk to mem. 



hers of Pure Milk Association, Chicago, 

 was recently increased lie per cwt. to 

 $2.35. The new price represents an 

 increase of 45c per cwt. since July. 



LAND USE 



Nearly 1000 persons attended the first 

 annual field day of the Resettlement 

 Administration's 11,000-acre land use 

 demonstration at Dixon Springs in Pope 

 county. 



Visitors flocked from far and near to 

 see the beginning of experiments in 

 erosion control and to find the most 

 economic use of some five million acres 

 of rough broken land in this part of the 

 country. Sponsored jointly by the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Soil Conservation Serv- 

 ice and the U. S. Forestry Service, the 

 tract was purchased and is being de- 

 veloped by the Resettlement Administra- 

 tion. 



Six thousand acres of the project will 

 be devoted to pasture experiments, 4500 

 to forestry and 400 to soil erosion con- 

 trol. 



Soil Erosion Does Great 



Damage Watch Fall Rains 



Between 500 and 700 farms in White- 

 side county suffered severe soil losses 

 from erosion following the heavy three 

 inch rains on June 21 according to 



Frank H. Shuman, farm adviser who took 

 and sent in the accompanying pictures. 

 The snapshots were taken on the Francis 

 Hook farm in Ustick township. . - 



AFTEH THE THREE INCH RAIN 

 Deep guUeys ionned in com rows, notice com plant* between gulley*. 



LONG DISTANCE VIEW SAME FIELD 

 Rcdn Water Ran Down Com Rows Carrying Much SoiL 



Land planning specialists believe that 

 much of the eroded land in southern 

 Illinois can be reclaimed for modified 

 farming which emphasizes grazing rather 

 than cropping. With this in mind, the 

 University is experimenting with grass 



mixtures and soil treatment in an effort to 

 find the best method for establishing 

 permanent cover and good grazing. Later 

 cattle and sheep will be used on the proj- 

 ect as a further test 



OCTOBER. 1937 



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