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Above ore the five purple ribbon theme winners, front row, left 

 to right, OS follows: Mary Beth Manning, Hollendeck school; Vir- 

 ginia Hexdall, Wally; Howard Scliock, ftobison; Joyce Decker, Car- 

 bon Hill, and lllomay Lyons, Goose lake. Back row are Miss lllllas 

 K. Walker, assistant county superintendent of Grundy schools; M. 

 f. Toscher, farm adviser and Miss Anna Ondesco, county super- 

 intendent. 



Top righf phofo shows a tree planting machine used to plant 

 multmora rose. Below Is a view from the speaker's platform of 

 fhe crowd or fhe Grundy field day climaxing Soil Conservation i 



Week. ■ 



SellUia Go4iA£>fuM4iU^ii. 



IN (;|{IM)\ COl N'n th.-v figure 

 that lolks rati't know too iniicli 

 aliout soil cons<T\atioti. TliatV why 

 this year thc\ enlarged tlicir pro- 

 frram and had a soil tonsiTvaliim 

 wt'i'k instead of just oni- day. And all 

 the important |)eople in the county got 

 hchind the idea and really put it over, 

 .^lartiiij; on a ."^uridav. rhurch-iioers 

 throiiplioiit the eounl\ heard a sermon 

 on ""Stewardship of the Land." The 

 county hoard of supervisors made it 

 ollicial liv declaring; the ueck of Sept, 

 25 as ""Soil (.onser\alion Week in 

 Grinidy County." 



All city ami town ^rade and hiiih 

 sehixds. hotli |>uldir and parochial, 

 held assenddv proiirams on soil con- 

 ser\alion. All theaters j;a\e a three- 

 day run to ""'I'hc Mood." a motion pic- 

 ture telling of the im|)ortance of soil 

 conservation to urhan peo|de. 



Five civic organizations held ""farmer 

 nights" in which a memlier hrought a 

 farmer as guest. I!n>inessmen of the 

 communitv ol Morris sponsored a corn 

 festival with S.i(R) in awards for the 

 hest ears of corn. The contest was set 

 up so that the closing dale was at the 

 end of the soil conservation week. The 



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Grundy County Folks Get Story of Soil Care 

 From Church Pulpits, Theaters, Clubs and Schools. 



Iiusine-smen reminded contestants that 

 it took good .-oil care to produce toj) 

 cro|)s. 



.■\ll in all, the Grundy Countv Soil 

 Goiiscrxation district directors got the 

 cooperation ol 2.T groujis in ~ponsoritig 

 ilie week's program. 



Not a small part of the program wa- 

 the iiarlic'ipation of pu|iil,- from I I 

 county schools in a theme writing con- 

 test on the topic. ""W hy Kach Farmer 

 Should Practice ."^oil (A>nservation on 

 His Farm." With the cooperation of 

 Miss Anna Ondesco. the afternoon of 

 soil conservation held dav was declared 

 a holiday and presentation of jnirple 

 rihhons to five of the top essav writers 

 was made during the program. Pre- 

 siding at the award ceremony attended 

 l>v 1,50 school children were James 

 I . Ilolderrnan. Farm Itureau president, 

 and M. F. Tascher. farm adviser. Blue 

 rihlions were given to each of the win- 

 ners in the 1 f schools. 



The field day was held on a rented 

 farm in kee|)ing with the (irundy pro- 



gram to emphasize the lienelits of soil 

 conservation to hoth renters and land- 

 owners. .\s farmers and s<-hool chil- 

 dren loured the farm they were shown 

 the response of alfalfa to phosj>hate 

 aiul to potash. Tiiese materials had 

 heen a|i|)lie(l to the alfalfa only a few 

 weeks heforc- hut it was ea>y to tell 

 where they were a|>|dicd. 



A contour line had heen marked out 

 across the alfalfa field to show how 

 |)lowing would he done in the spring 

 when the alfalfa is [)lowcd under for 



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Hen Miiirhcad. extension agricidtural 

 engineer, pointed to the use of surface 

 drainage to carry water out of low 



1 daces and grass waterways to lead 

 he water down to the drainage ditch 

 which had heen sha|)e(l for maximum 

 capacilv and use. 



Much interest was shown in a tree 

 |)lanting machine which is |>ulled hy a 

 tractor at the f)ace of a moderate walk. 

 One man on the machine placed multi- 

 flora rose plants al>out 11 inches apart. 



I. A. A. RECORD 



