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$523.50 Given x
fo Advance
Soil Surrey Work H'. H. Line, County Agent C. X Miller,'"Jr., cashier of :k National Bank, 'resented a check for $523.50 to 'll S. S. Obenshain, agronomist, iiginia Agricultural Experiment itation, las Wednesday to help jnance the soil survey now being iaji!fe in the county. Present at sj time the check was presented
rW. H. Lyne, county agent, Clarence Coleman, who is ling up the soil survey in the •uhty. / Several yean ago die county's ;ronomy and horticultural comjittees selected the getting of a til survey as one of their goal* ^fretted at improving the county’s agriculture and the welfare of
t people. A representative group these committees went to the dksburg headquarters of the it State-Federal Soil Survey ject and learned that while tb xe was little chance of a survey be ng made of Rappahannock soils ip their life time, that location of s» vevs was generallv based on the interest or desire for a survey by the people of the county, and the need for knowledge of the physical characteristics of soils in where no survey work had done. jince Loudoun, Fauquier, and Culpeper counties had already had surveys, the committees knew in ordfr to bring the work to their county local interest and concern had! to be the influencing factor. Fairfax County was getting a surby putting up a sizeable int of the money necessary for | its financing. What could Rapjpdhannock do in this respect? litteemen got to work. Their started talking. The idea
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