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...surprisingly, the most persuasive proselytizers for sustainable agriculture are those who have profited by it. Since 1981, Wilbert Blumhardt and his son Glenn have been fighting erosion on their 3,000-acre spread near Bowdle, S. Dak., by planting wheat, sunflowers, soybeans and corn in fields littered by the debris from earlier harvests. "That trash," says Wilbert, "serves an important purpose. It helps feed the soil, and it allows the water to soak in and not wash off into lakes and streams." Last year the Blumhardts' fields produced an average of 27 bu. of wheat an acre, 30% more than...
...RALPH BLUMHARDT Trenton...
...competitors from the different so- cieties are as follow: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-E. N. Fales '11, F. W. Caldwell '11, H. F. Lehman '11; Tufts.-R. P. Bugbee '12; University of Pennsylvania.-G. A. Richardson '12; Swarthmore.-H. Blumhardt '12; Cornell.-C. H. Wetzel '13, F. R. Lentz '14, C. K. Getchell '11; Volkmann.-E. P. Warner, E. W. Lombard, B. Darling, C. Townsend; Harvard.-R. M. Allen '11, M. C. Allen '11, E. C. Brown '12, J. H. Taylor '13, W. H. Capen '13. The Waltham society will take part only in the open events
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