Typed as written – Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year –
Number 48
Marlin, Texas, Friday,
June 26,1931
FALLS COUNTY SOIL TO
BE SHOWN AT ROSEBUD FAIR
One Sample of Each
Type Will BeDisplayed on Plates Properly Labeled.
One sample of each
soil in Falls county will be displayed onplates and properly labeled at the
Rosebud American Legion fair July 3 and 4,M.W. Beck, government surveyor now
making a soil survey of this county,announces.
Dealing with soil, sub-soil and parent material, thisdisplay
will let everybody see all of the different soils in the county.
With the exhibit will be displayed maps and reports
alreadypublished and available on Bell and Milam counties and any
informationdiscovered in these and other counties and has been published will be
availableas information on the same soils in Falls county.
The United States bureau of chemistry and soils had
arepresentative soil exhibit of six-foot sections undisturbed from various
partsof the country, including several from Texas, at the sequecentennial
exhibitionin Philadelphia. However,
this displayat Rosebud will be the third soil exhibit ever shown at a community
fair in thecountry, Mr. Beck states.
Anyone desiring soil survey maps and reports on
variouscounties in Texas or any other state, which are now available for
freedistribution, may register and these reports will be sent free of charge.
The display has been madepossible through courtesy of
A.B.Connor of the Texas A & M. Collegeextension station, a former Rosebud
resident, and Dr. H. G. Knight, chief ofthe bureau of chemistry and soils at
Washington.
Copyright permission granted to Theresa Carhart and
hervolunteers for printing by The Marlin Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Tx.