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Show Rork Explains Soil Conservation Program and Functions The local Soil Conservation district dis-trict organized under the state law is interested in all conservation conserva-tion and agricultural production measures. It is their object to deal with all agencies concerned with conservation and more production pro-duction by conservation planning and application. Each community has a board member so that the separate and combined problems can be considered. The following board members represent the various communities: communi-ties: Wayne C. Gardner, St. George, chairman; Francis J. Bowler, Gun-lock, Gun-lock, secretary; E. S. Gardner, Pine VaUey; J. Claude Frei, Santa Clara; and Wallace Iverson of Washington. Just recently the Lower Virgin-Santa Virgin-Santa Clara Soil Conservation district dis-trict has purchased a Misken scraper and an Eversman leveler. These machines are available for farmers for leveling their lands. An equipment charge is made to take care of maintenance and replacement. re-placement. Some federal assistance assist-ance is given in order to supplement supple-ment their program. This assistance assist-ance now consists chiefly of seed for demonstrations, technical personnel per-sonnel trained in soil conservation, conserva-tion, and some equipment on a rental basis that is not ordinarily within the means of the individual individ-ual farmer or groups of farmers. In the past, there have been various types of relief funds available avail-able for the purpose of establish-i establish-i n g demonstrations, preventing and checking serious erosion of the land. Irrigation practices such as proper control and application of irrigation water, better irrigation turnouts, sluice gates, preventing waste, land leveling, re-arrangement of irrigation systems, better bet-ter land use by converting lands to their maximum capabilities through conservation methods are problems that the district is vitally vi-tally concerned with. Charles F. Rork, district conservationist, con-servationist, working with the districts in this county, stated that considerable progress is being be-ing made, but that individual farmers could contribute to the war effort by more widespread application of conservation practices prac-tices through their own efforts. The erroneous impression that conservation farming is more ex- pensive among the up.t(Hi., farmers has disappeared iv are finding that increased viA can be obtained at lower cost! Washington county farmers & displaying an active interest h i land leveling, better infe ' practices, pasture improvers and range re-vegetation. I |