Community Meetings: A Device for Distributing Soil Survey Reports and for Training in Their Use
1962
Bidwell, Orville W. (Orville Willard) | Bohannon, R. A.
Community meetings for the distribution of soil survey reports were held in the Kansas counties of Saline, Geary, and Brown during the years of 1959, 1960, and 1961. Cooperation of the USDA Soil Conservation Service, the USDA Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation Service, the Kansas Agricultural Extension Service, and the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station was essential in the planning and execution of the meetings. Other important elements which made the meetings successful and brought out an average of 480 persons to each of the three series of county meetings included: (1) the selection of local farm leaders to help publicize and conduct the meetings; (2) withholding distribution of the soil survey reports until the meetings; (3) bringing the party chief back to take part; and (4) using visual aids such as soil profile monoliths, soil texture samples, a large colored county soil map, and growing plants to illustrate soil deficiency symptoms.
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