| Show A CP helps build better Uintah u re ayea Area county chairman T issues report of ui 1948 JUTO progress iTU gress grebs uintah county is richer and more productive because of the work done by farmers of the county who have cooperated in t h e agricultural conservation program according to harold dudley chairman of the county ACA committee few people besides the farm ers themselves realize all that has been done to protect anti anal im prove the soil and water resources of the county under the 1948 program alone farmers carried out one or more mote more conservation practices he reported one thousand eight hundred and seven acres of land were leveled making a total of cubic yards of dirt moved there were nine stock watering ponds built on uintah county comity ranges 10 and one half miles of tion ditches constructed and four and one half miles of canal six thousand two hundred a and n d thirty six rods of fence was built on the range and dast vast pasture ure land through these practices farm ers of the county have made material progress in controlling erosion anal anaa making the land more mor e productive the chairman points out that to the farmer this means that he can look to his land fo for i continued production to the man on main street it means a continued and stable business a permanency which permits planning for the future As the chairman explains it will not be like a mine that means of business when the coal or the ore gives out the conservation program Is get ting farmers away from mining the soil 11 forty percent of the fa farmers rm ers ens of uin min uintah mintah h county are participating in t the e agricultural program the e assistance provided under the program was not very much for each farmer the average for the c county according to the chair chairman marm marP was 65 per farmer g but this little assistance ads ais Istance served as a leaven that got the work started it is estimated that this assistance was responsible for at least worth of conserva tion work in the county this says the chairman still does not include the value of a continuing production in terms of a more permanent agriculture increased business stability in the com corn w m and a strong stronger er and better cou country |
