Show farmers work together to keep soil at home I 1 after many single handed attempts to stop the blowing of good top soil from their fields fa farmers amers ot of greeley county kansas back in in 1937 saw that they would have to get together in the fight to keep their soil at home if a single farmer tried to hold his soil down by listing a field the top soil froni from an unlisted field adjoining would blow over it and cover up his work with the help of farm leaders in the county the farmers organized a countrywide campaign to use AAA conservation practices to get all the land in the county listed at the same time and protected by cover crops and strip cropping the job was hard but the farmers were for any plan that would break the force of the wind and keep their soil covered when the job started each farmer had an average ot of acres of land to list and they kept at it literally day and night until it was finished to make the plan thoroughgoing the county organization adopted a rule that no farmer could get an AAA payment unless he had au all his crop land either in cover crops such as sudan grass or sorghums sorg hums or in strip cropping a strip of cover to slow down the wind 4 then a strip of wheat or fallow and then another strip of cover crops last year with six times as much land in cover crops and strip crop ping as in 1936 five times as many acres in summer fallow half as many acres in wheat and twice as many acres of feed crops tor for their live stock these farmers reported that they had the wind hazard under control it if they continue what they have started they believe that nature will complete the job |