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Show Soil Conservation Week Is Observed Conservation districts all nv the United States are spon-over spon-over lne stewardship week, soring Soil t tnj which began May ind rrenndcVofrhcir dependence upon the soil for their very exis- tence. TT Don Williams, Chief of the U.S. ,oil conservation service says, Un- etwe pause to consider V,e spiritual spir-itual man, we may be amazed by his spread of the soil stewardship concept in a time when we are troubled by temporary crop surpluses sur-pluses and when only one person in Is actually tills the soil for a Uv- Unless we accept as a fact that men do recognize the spiritual values of soil and water conservation, conserva-tion, wc are unable to explain fully the personal sacrifices thousands of them make to serve as members mem-bers of the governing boards of nearly 2,700 locally-organized and managed soil conservation districts dis-tricts These men and there are some 'women on these governing boards already are conservation farmers or ranchers. They already are personally, reaping the material ma-terial benefits of greater net income in-come lower production costs, and greater efficiency in the use of labor and machinery that comes with conservation." |