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FRED ENOU FARM NEAR FREEPORT, STEPHENSON 

 county. Illinois. Grassed wolerwoy b«tw««n oats and com. 

 Th* hay crop is baing taken ofi. 



Strip Cropping 

 Controls 

 Erosion 



Conserving Water and Soil 

 Brings Bigger Crop Yields 



\^V ARMING around the hill, strip 

 J^ cropping, leaving wide strips 



sj of grass for waterways, terrac- 

 ing, and building check dams in gulleys 

 are methods up to date Illinois farmers 

 are using to control soil erosion. 



Qmtour farming and strip cropping 

 on rolling land have the advantage of 

 longer rows, the team or tractor is always 



on the level (not uphill and down hill), 

 rainfall is checked from running down 

 hill by corn rows and buflfer strips, big- 

 ger crop yields result from conservation 

 of moisture, and most important the 

 valuable top soil is prevented from being 

 washed down the slope through gulleys 

 and sheet erosion. 



Farmers who have tried strip cropping 



and contour farming realize its value and 

 will not farm rolling land any other way. 

 In V/isconsin and Minnesota practical 

 farmers on hilly ground were saving their 

 soil and getting bigger yields through 

 strip cropping long before government 

 soil conservation camps were established 

 proving that this method is long past the 

 experimental stage. 



BELOW— JOHN MUELLER FARM, WINONA, MINNESOTA. 

 The strips in the upper section oi the picture, from the pasture 

 draw to the road are alialia, barley, alialia, com, red clover, 

 and winter wheat. The road marks the boundary oi the water- 

 shed. 



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BELOW— ALTERNATE STRIPS OF CORN AND SMAU 

 grain, on the D. C. Goeke farm, Dokota, Stephenson county, IlL 

 Mr. Goeke is plowing one oi the strips, preparing to seed wheat. 

 He expressed satisfaction with contour strip cropping method 

 oi iarming. Very little erosion occurred in this field last year. 



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FRANK lOHNSON FARM NEAR BARRY, PIKE COUNTY, 

 Illinois. Grassed waterway in a field oi contoured com. The 

 cooperator plowed it, sloped it in. fertilized it. seeded it in the 

 laU. and reseeded last spring. 



BELOW — FINKENBINDER & BHYSON FARMS NEAR 

 Stockton, Jo Daviess county, Illinois. This field was stripped in 

 the spring of 1937 and the buffers seeded to alfalfa and timothy. 

 There will be a rotation oi com, oats, and red clover on the 

 com strips. 





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