rows are longer. As for drilled corn, it 

 yields right up with checked corn. I 

 have had drilled corn cleaner from weeds 

 than that planted in check rows. If we 

 do have a few weeds what of it. They 

 help hold the soil." 



Every com row in contour farming 

 forms a barrier against washing and ero- 

 sion. And in strip cropping, the water 

 soon hits a buffer strip or field of clover 

 on its way down hill where it is slowed 

 up if not stopped completely dumping 

 its load of silt on the buffer strip. The 

 30 ft. buffer strips on the more rolling 

 fields will be widened to 50 ft. Goeke 

 will tell you that before he started con- 

 tour farming, water from his fields 

 poured across the road. "Very little water 

 comes down off my fields now," he said. 



On the A. R. Day farm north of Free- 

 port, land which has been farmed in the 

 regular way shows the effect of continu- 

 ous erosion. This year, lime is being 

 spread, plowing is being done on the 

 contour, and a strip crop rotation of corn, 

 oats, and timothy and clover is being 

 started that promises to work wonders 

 within a few years. Howard W. Turner, 

 agronomist of the Freeport SCS camp re- 

 ported that Mr. Dry and other farmers 

 and farm owners in the county are show- 

 ing enthusiasm for the new way of farm- 

 ing that controls sheet erosion and stops 

 guUeying. Simon Julius, another farm 

 owner said, "I'd rather have drilled corn 

 than checked. It's better to have a few 

 weeds in the corn rows and keep my 

 soil." 



1200 A. Strip Cropped 



There are approximately 1200 acres in 

 the Freeport area on which strip cropping 

 will be followed this year. 



On the Elmer Moorhead farm between 

 Stockton and Mt. Carroll contour fur- 

 rows in a permanent pasture with a 32 

 per cent slops were proving effective in 

 stopping gulle)'Jng. Here a barren pas- 

 ture was beii^ restored to blue grass. 

 The furrows were approximately 12 ft. 

 apart blocked or closed at intervals of 50 

 ft. with small earth dams. 



Otto Nagel, a Jo Daviess county dairy- 

 man, is strip cropping with a rotation of 

 corn, oats, and clover with alfalfa buffer 

 strips to take up the uneven pieces be- 

 tween the regular rotation crops. The 

 crops are planted in 60 ft. strips of uni- 

 form width following the contour of the 

 land. 



"I used to have from two to three 

 inches of mud over the sidewalk back of 

 the house after every rain," said Otto. 

 "It washed down from the fields above. 

 Since we started strip cropping, we don't 

 have any more mud in the back yard. 

 The strips of alfalfa and clover, and the 

 corn rows hold the soil up there where 

 it belongs. " All of the 235 acres he 



farms, 135 acres of his own and 100 

 acres rented ground, is farmed in this 

 way. 



Lloyd Durward in Ustick township, 

 Whiteside county repjorts only 10 per 

 cent as much damage from erosion since 

 he started strip cropping his more roll- 

 ing land. 



To extend the erosion control demon- 



stration work beyond the areas where 

 soil conservation and CCC camps are lo- 

 cated, State Supervisor Fisher says that 

 plans are under way to designate farms 

 in areas where there are no SCS camps. 

 Twenty-nine such farms have been se- 

 lected to date, and he expects to have 

 between 35 and 40 in 10 counties by 

 July 1. — Editor. 



■ly by Livingston county growers last year 

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