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Omaha. 
free of gullies and washes. 
of gullies and washes. 
as hard as some think. 
Required Reading for Farmers 

One of the photographs Tom Powell showed me. 
The field to the right of the road is terraced and contour tilled and is 
The field on the left is not contour tilled and is full 
Incidentally, farmers tell me farming on contour is not 
They say the extra crops and soil saving is worth many, 

It’s the Denker farm near 
many times the little extra time it might take to farm on contour rather than our 
straight row system. 
You people know, by now, that now 
and then I get excited about something 
and don’t stop.pestering you about it 
until I get some action or get wore out 
trying. Well here I am at it again. 
This time it’s soil saving, or as the 
government men call it—soil conserva- 
tion. I’ve always been like most every- 
body and was too busy with something 
else to pay much attention to it or fig- 
ured that the government men were 
taking ‘care of it, and figured it didn’t 
have much to do with me. 
But Tom Powell set me | straight. 
Tom is the local Soil Conservation head 
here at Shenandoah and one of the nic- 
est men I’ve ever met. He came down 
to talk and visit with me the other day 
and some of the things he told me 
really made me sit up and take notice. 
He told me that if we continue farm- 
ing for around 20 years like we have 
been in Iowa, the state won’t be able 
to produce its own food and feed. The 
rate we’re losing soil is amazing—in 
some cases topsoil of about 6 in. depth 
that it took nature some 3,600 years to 
make, we’re losing at the ae of 4 in. 
a year or about 24 years to lose it all. 
And when this original topsoil is gone, 
you have an abandoned farm good for 
nothing but weeds. 
Of course, your farm may not be 
eroding at that rate. Chances are you 
use better farm practice than did farm- 
ers on some of the farms in this coun- 
try who had, to abandon them as 
WORTHLESS after a generation or so 
of bad farming. 
But there are still steps you should 
be taking to prevent soil loss and the 
Soil Service will help you take them at 
no cost to you. They’ll check your 
farm free, test your soil, make a farm 
plan and give you advice they’ve learned 
from treating thousands of other farms. 
You can take it or leave it alone—there 
aren’t any strings to it——but the 
chances are you'll take their advice, for 
it means a better farm, larger crops 
for you. 
If there isn’t a Soil Service in your town, your County Agent can tell you where 
the nearest one is. 
Now you go in and see them. They’re helpful people, you’ll 
find, even if you didn’t think so before and you’ll thank me for telling you to. 
They’ve worked out new systems for contouring, planting buifer strips and grassed 
waterways, terracing, and building dams that aren’t expensive and can usually be 
done without a lot of extra, high-priced labor. 
Special Grade Hybrid $5.25 Per Bu. 
Last summer made an awfully good set 
on our hybrid corn producing fields and 
the ears filled better than usual. This 
condition gave us a special grade of seed 
in a quantity greater than we normally 
sell, so I’m going to make a bargain 
price on it to balance up. the stocks. 
This is a grade of flat edge-drop ker- 
nels the same length and thickness as 
our regular edge-drop but just a trifle 
narrower. It runs regular and even and 
will plant well, is of regular high-germ- 
ination, of course. Because it is a trifle 
narrower, it will plant more—around 
10 to 12 acres to the bushel. 
I don’t have this grade in all numbers 
but coin. our Nos 100R, 29,3129 -(2 
ear), 129R, 1298S, 135L, and 135R. Some 
lots are limited, but while it lasts, I’m 
pricing it at only $5.25 per bu. There’s 
a way to make a real saving. 
Some Corn Nos. Sold Out 
NE SE OSE | ER Ee OE ee 
You better hurry on that corn order. It’s 
going pretty fast. Already we are sold out 
on all No. 90 series and the hill-drop 
(round) grade of No. 100 and No. 116R. The 
others may get sold out secon. Get your or- 
der in NOW, so you wen’t be disappointed. 
200,000,000 More Chicks 
Sec. of Agriculture Claude Wickard 
has asked poultrymen to raise 200,000,- 
000 MORE chickens this year than last. 
He says he wants 600,000,000 more 
pounds of chicken for consumers this 
winter. 
This is making a big demand. If you 
don’t want to be disappointed in getting 
YOUR baby chicks, please send your 
reservations NOW, 
Likes Our Chicks 
SSE SES EE Se EP Ee eae 
“Dear Folks: It is a little early to or- 
der spring baby chicks, but are you book- 
ing orders yet. My 100 I got last fall 
are fine and weigh about 2 Ibs.—2 months 
old. I want to get 300 around March ist 
or last of February.’’—Mrs. Jay J. Strick- 
land, Beaver City, Nebr.- 
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humor because it’s a gift. 
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Sampson used the jawbone of an ass 
to end a war, but in modern times that 
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Likes Our White Wyandottes 
“Dear Mr. Field: Here is a picture of 
our son, Paul, and daughter, Verna, and 
some of your White Wyandotte chickens, 

April hatched. We got 25c Ib. for these 
at 5 Ibs. weight and really think your 
chicks can’t be beat. Paul has a rare 
hip ailment and this shows him in his 
wagon which he propels with his hand 
and guides with his foot. He is always 
happy and hopes to walk again some 
day.’’—Paul Edmondson, Orient, Ia. 

Henry Field White Rocks 
“Dear Mr. Field: Here is a picture ot 
me and my 1942 flock of 285 White Rocks 
I got from you. They were certainly fine 
chicks and at 4 months one of my White 
Rock cockerels weighed 514 Ibs.”—Mrs. 
A. KE. Knutson, Montfort, Wisc. 


10 Week Old Chicks 
‘Dear Folks; This is Little Antone, a 
very dear visitor in our home. He is 
19 months old and pictured with part of 
the chickens we got from you. They 
really grew! This picture was taken 
when they were only 10 weeks old.”— 
Mrs. Ira Zackery, Rt. 2, Leaven ee a 
Kans. 

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