Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 31, DeMotte, Jasper County, 1 July 1949 — U. S. Authority On Soil To Be At Purdue [ARTICLE]

U. S. Authority On Soil To Be At Purdue

Hugh S. Bennett, Na- ’ tion's Foremost Soil i Conservationist To ’ Speak At Conference Th world’s No. 1 Soil Consei-va-tionist, Hugh H. Bennett, Chief of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service, will be the main speaker at the “Soil Conservation and Wheat Day’’ program on Purdue University’s Throckmorton Farm. Lafayette, at noon June 30. The farm is located eight miles south of Lafayette on State Road 43, and the field l program begins at 8:00 A.M., C.S.T. The program is a new event being held this year in place -of the annual field crops day held in past years. The Throckmorton Farm is the home of the Hydrologic and Erosion Research work being conducted jointly by the Soil Conservation Service and the University. Dr. Bennett will discuss the progress of the soil and water conservation program which the Service helps farmers plan and apply through the farmer organized and operated Soil Conservation Districts. Indiana has 44. As Chief of the Soil Conservation Service, Dr. Bennett has directed the national program of technical help to. Soil Conservation Districts, which has resulted •in approximately 750,000 farm conservation plans covering 222,387,000 acres of land in the United States. He has also acted as a consultant to foreign countries, which are establishing farm conservation programs patterned after the one developed by the Soil Conservation Service and State colleges in this country. Among those from Jasper County who plan to attend the Las- | ayette field day are John Layden, ’District Qonservationist; Frank Sanders, Soil Scientist; Si Smucker, Soil Conservationist; Charles Newsom. Conservationist Aid; and Lucille Quinn, Work Group Secretary; all of the Rensselaer Work Group of the Soil Conservation Service: Waldby Duggleby, Ed I Rose, Sidney Stephens, Rollin Stewart and Ray Knockel of the Board of Supervisors of the Jasper County Soil Conservation Dis- ' trict. Many of the prominent farmer cooperators of the Jasper District are also planning to attend. The program promises to be a very instructive as well as enjoyable affair.