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Community Meetings: A Device for Distributing Soil Survey Reports and for Training in Their Use¹

ABSTRACT

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.

¹ Contribution No. 762, Department of Agronomy, Kansas Agr. Exp. Sta., and No. 106, Office of Dean of Agriculture, Kansas State University, Manhattan. Presented before Div. V, Soil Science Society of America, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 30, 1961.

² Agronomist, Kansas Agri, Exp. Sta., and Assistant to the Dean of Agriculture and Director of Extension, Kansas State University. Appreciation is expressed to R. D. Davis and G. D. Miller for assistance in the preparation of the colored soil map and fluorescent photography of it.

Received for publication October 30, 1961. Accepted for publication December 22, 1961.