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Marion County hits 1000 members in soil district with Slings
Andrew Slings, the district’s thousandth cooperator, farms 260 acres near Pella and maintains a five year rotation with corn oats hay and alfalfa. His background traces to his Dutch immigrant father and Prairie City area farming. The article notes district growth since 1940, contour farming adoption, and three watershed projects Thunder Creek Hickory Creek and Hawk Run reducing flood damage.
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Marion County
Henry Brouwer
Pella
Slings
Slings Hs
Gerald Ver Meer
Chariton
New Thunder Creek
Farm Bureau
Second
Christian Reformed Church
Pella Christian School
Marion County Soil Conservation District
Clayton
R. H. Musser
H. H. Bennett
Bennett
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Clyde Milner
Pleasantville
Civilian Conservation Corps
SCS
Clay Barnett
Bloomfield
Little Watershed
Lester Crandall
Washington Township
State of
Washington
Ping
Vin
Davis
Thunder Creek
Hickory Creek
Knoxville
Hawk Run