The Mexia Weekly Herald. September 4, 1936

ID: 930 | This file appears in: Duck Creek Soil Erosion Project

This news story tells of the Duck Creek Erosion Project, near Lindale, Texas. The article describes the advantages of strip cropping, which is a technique of planting alternating crops in rows to act as barriers to slow water runoff. At this point of the Duck Creek Project, seventy-four cooperative agreements were underway with local farmers. Hundreds of farmers from all over Texas came to learn from the Duck Creek Project. | Source: Harold G. Anthony, "The Duck Creek Erosion Project," The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1936, The Portal to Texas History, accessed March 4, 2015, http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299469/m1/8/?q=duck.

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Harold G. Anthony, "The Duck Creek Erosion Project," The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1936, The Portal to Texas History, accessed March 4, 2015, http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299469/m1/8/?q=duck.

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