KEEPERS OF THE SOIL 

 H. M. Christian, Soil Conservation Ser- 

 vice, left, and H. R. "Hank" Brunnemeyer. 

 Winnebago county iarm adviser, stand 

 behind a terrace, look over a 200-acre 

 field on C. E. Swenson's farm that was 

 almost valueless when the CCC crews 

 started to work. Working together, these 

 men teach soil erosion controL 



TO THE FUTURE, A SMILE 

 Strip crops and terraces will keep our 

 soil where it will do us the most good, say 

 Dick Washington, obove, and Eldon Veh- 

 meier. below. 



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Winnebago County Farmers Learn 

 How To Keep the Top Soil Where 

 it Will do Them the Most Good. 



Old MiiD'.nM HAD j Un. li-llil O: 



And r,n thi\ j.irm hi h.iJ umn <M'idfnp<. 



f.lIi-lO' 

 W'llh .1 r.ll»di"P he'i ind .1 r.iinJrcp t/'t'rt. 

 }U>t .1 dri'p. //.. n ./ dro/y. 1 1 ft )ii I'tri .1 r.rii- 



di;p 

 OU Man. 'uU HAD .: Ijrm. F-l I.-IO: 



OSi^^HHN he had Httle rills, then he 

 ^*~-^ h.iJ bi^ fillies, then he had 



^ J ax. boys. With terraces here 

 and strip irops there. Green grass here, 

 trees urowinc there. Now - Old Mac- 

 Donald Ihv a farm with profit crops here, 

 profit crops there, here a crop there a 

 crop, everywhere a profit crop. - So 

 sine tlif (^a~. boys of the Durand Soil 

 Conservation Camp Number Nine in 

 Winnebago county. 



The task of planning ways and means 

 for keeping Old MacDonald's farm, or 

 anyone's farm, at home in Winnebago 

 county falls directly on the shoulders of 

 three men. H. M. (;hristian, camp agron- 

 omist. C^amp Superintendent Binyon and 

 Conservationist Dickenson. Too, they 

 direct the activities of more than 160 

 CCC boys. 



Working with these men of the Soil 

 C'onservation Service are officers of the 



Winnebago County Soil (Conservation As- 

 sociation and Farm Adviser H. R. Brun- 

 nemeyer. The job of this team is to dem- 

 onstrate, by actual examples, how all 

 farmers can apply soil erosion control 

 methods to their farms. 



When Z') Winnebago and Stephenson 

 countv farmers recently visited farms on 

 whicli the CCC crews had operated, they 

 saw profit crops, and good ones, too. 

 They learned that farming on the level 

 saves production costs as well as soil. 



On the farm of F. A. Patterson and son 

 near Durand. the visitors saw a hundred- 

 acre ridge planted to corn, oats, rye and 

 sweet clover in horseshoe-shaped strips. 

 They saw two rows of drilled corn, al- 

 most a mile and a quarter long, wreathing 

 the hill. While the corn plants were not 

 growing in a straight row, they were all 

 the same distance above sea level. 



"The long rows require less time to 

 cultivate. Last year we handled this field 

 with at least 60 fewer tractor hours than 

 for any previous year when the ridge was 

 laid out in square fields," Almon Patter- 

 son, the son, told the group. 



The elder Patterson pointed out that 

 their neighbor across the fence benefits 



THEY HELPED OLD MAC DONALD KEEP HIS FARM 

 Five crew boys sang their version of an old song. While CCC boys help check soil 

 erosion, camp life checks human erosion, gives sons of destitute families a new out- 

 look on life. 



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