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Wilfred Shaw, director of milk mar- 

 ketinji. has been appointed producers 

 representative on tiie mdk price arbi- 

 tration board at the St. Louis market. 



Talmagf DeFrccs of Bond County 



shipped liis first tar oT apples Sept I 1 

 throu^'h the 11' Fruit Cirowers Ix- 

 thanye to Sioux (!ity, la. They were 

 No. 1 Jonathans. Apples are hnnuint: 

 ySc to 9'^c per bu. FOB shippini; point. 



Pres. Harl C. Smith was recently ap- 

 pointed a member ot a plannini: com- 

 mittee of 11 Illinois business and civic 

 leaders to draft a report on re employ- 

 ment and relief. The committee was 

 naincd by John Martin, chairman of 

 the lllmois F.mer^'ency Relief C!ommis- 

 sion. 



Two |)olice squad cars flunked the 

 I. A. A. Safety Lane test in Decatur 

 recently, reports the Decatur Review in 

 an article illustrated with a j^icture of 

 the police car ^oinc throui;!). More 

 than 100 cars were tested before noon 

 All taxicabs. trucks, and messenuer cars 

 in the city were ordered to take the test 

 by ( hicf of Polite Schepper. 



The Class I price of milk to mem- 

 bers of Pure Milk Association. C hicaj^o. 

 was recently increased lie per twt. to 

 S-.^'>. The new |-irict represents an 

 increase ot ("ic per cwt. since |uly. 



LAND USE 



Nearly 1000 persons attended the first 

 annual field day of the Resettlement 

 Administr.ition's 11,000-acre land use 

 demonstration at Dixon Springs in Pope 

 county. 



Visitors flocked from far and near to 

 see the beginnint; of experiments in 

 erosion control and to find the most 

 economic use of .some fi\e 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 \\ hue- 

 side county suffered severe soil losses 

 from erosion lollowins; the heavy three 

 inch rains on Uine 21 atcordint' to 



Frank H. Shuman. farm adviser who totik 

 and sent in the accompanyinc picturt-N 

 1 he snapshots were taken on the Francis 

 Hook farm m L'stick township. 



AFTER THE THREE INCH RAIN 

 Deep gulleys formed in corn rows, notice corn plants between gulleys. 





LONG DISTANCE VIEW SAME FIELD 

 Rain Water Ran Down Corn 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, ^^''ith this in mind, tlie 

 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 p-'oi- 

 ect as a further test. 



OCTOBER. 1937 



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