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HALF-TON OF DYNAMITE — PRESTOI — A DITCH 

 Above: The main ditch of the Rock River drain- 

 age system on the Fred Shoemaker farm, Henry 

 county, just before 1000 pounds of explosive was set 

 ofi. Center, above: BOOMI Two thousand cubic 

 yards of dirt looking for a place to land. It shot 100 

 feet upward. Right, above: Five minutes later water 

 was flowing through the ditch which is two feet 

 deep, 10 to 12 feet wide. Prize photos by Dick 

 Crabb. 



HGHTING OLD MAN EROSION 

 Each of these Schuyler county 4-H Club 

 members set out 500 black locust trees on 

 their home farms this spring, reports Farm 

 Adviser Ray T. Nichols. Left to right: Eugene 

 Serrott, Frieda Sowers, Lois Huffman, lames 

 Moore, Verlin Huffman, lunior Gust, and Leon 

 Huffman. Prize picture by Mr. Nichols. 



SOYBEANS AND CORN FOR BELGIUM 

 The S. S. Prins Maurits of Rotterdam, the 

 first Dutch ship ever to arrive in Chicago 

 sailed for Antwerp, June 8. with a cargo of 

 1,200 tons of soybean oil meal and 600 tons of 

 corn gluten feed. The picture at left, with the 

 Board of Trade building in the distanice, 

 shows the feed being loaded by steam 

 winches at the rate of 3600 pounds per min- 

 ute. Shipping direct from Chicago saves S5 

 per ton in freight. Two more Dutch ships are 

 expected in luly. The Prins Maurits brought 

 coal from Wales to Toronto, required a month 

 to cross from Holland to Chicago. 



ILLINOIS' NEW CROP 

 A producing oil well 

 near OIney, Richland 

 county. New wells were 

 recently brought in. One 

 company has 160 pro- 

 ducers, has taken 4,500,- 

 000 barrels of oil. Prize 

 photo by Ruth V. Bloaa. 



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