| Show S soil 0 i I 1 conservation C 0 n s e r v a t i 0 n news by kenneth williams new soil conservation projects are springing up everywhere the S C S engineers serving this district are all scheduled up uniel february 21 if anyo anyone ne has a new project in mind it would be well to let your super visors know now so that they can arrange for you some help it isn t likely that we will be able to start star t on any new jobs before the last half of february bill morgan and I 1 are due in iii gre en river january to finish up ome borne designs for sand gates at bris ca wash and jess powells trie national association of soil conservation districts are holding their annual convention at boston on Febu 6 9 it will be inter esting to see what the re presena tives fives of the local soil conservation districts hai hag e to say about a farm program for district leaders are showing a marked interest in the present proposed soil bank and consecration conse ration reserve ideas there will be quite a number of utah far mers at this convention an interesting article appeared in tl tj e Febu issue of soil conser magazine titled land lev cling moves east the article pointed out that land leveling was no longer a purely western irrigate ion practice farmers in the east em high rainfall climates have found that land leveling pays off th ey level their fields basically to pro vide good drainage which will make the land more uniform to work le velma eliminates low areas which become swamps during heavy rains leveling leeling research conducted on suga cam cain showed that often the le velma costs were paid out in one year through ir creased crop tion many eastern farmers are even turning to irrigation to insure good yields anen dry seasons th crops |
