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Show conservationists attended. Although Al-though the range seedings are very dry, due to drought, those participating partici-pating in the tour seemed impressed im-pressed with what they saw. They expressed the desire to do more range work in their district and promote more inter-agency participation partici-pation in such a program. It was good to see that, in spite of the severe se-vere drought conditions that have existed this year, the seedings have been able to establish themselves on the Wood & Eyre ranch. Although Al-though growths of the seedings are not good for a normal year, they appeared to be doing much better than one would expect under un-der such severe conditions as have existed this year. Monthly Report of , Beaver SCS Districts The drought continued through j August with no relief, and muchi of the cropland, with little or no' water this year, will be grazed for the remainder of the growing season. sea-son. Ranges as a whole have gone from bad to worse as a result of no moisture. A cold snap brought a frost which froze some of the corn fields to the point that they must be harvested as soon as possible. Some other crops suffered slight damage. The newly organized West Beaver Bea-ver Soil Conservation District received re-ceived official word from the Utah secretary of state changing the name of the district to Twin-M Soil Conservation District. One of the district's "cats" broke down, due to oil pump difficulties and the board voted to overhaul it. I This is being done at considerable expense. The equipment policy was established and equipment is being operated under this program, Lynn Smith of Milford was sent to the Youth Conservation Camp at Logan by the Twin-M SCD. He will give a report of his trip at the next board meeting. The Beaver SCD Board is continuing con-tinuing preparations for a business mens tour of the Pilot District, scheduled for the mornng of Saturday, Satur-day, Sept. 10. Many applications for practices are being received at the ACP office of-fice for this fall, However, it appears ap-pears that work on structural type practices will decline this year be-1 cause of the drought, j Approval for the use of Wayne Wiseman's ditches for lining concrete con-crete ditches up to 20 inches in depth was received from George Lawrence, state conservation engineer. engi-neer. Also, approval was received for construction of a 1,500-acre-foot reservoir on the Jim Smith farm in Tipperary. This will store a two-year water supply for this farm. Considerable time was spent by Keith Chapman and Ken Williams working on conservation plans for Sheldon Jessup, Sheral Carter, Dell J. Evans, Paul Anderson, George Smith, Delora Stephens, H. L. Tolley, George B.Law, Alvin Yard-ley, Yard-ley, Clark Smith, Wood & Eyre, and Ray Yardley. Don Stevens has been working on irrigation guides for the Twin-M SCD, along with his regular engineering en-gineering duties. Keith Chapman spent one day in range training with Horace Andrews, An-drews, range conservationist, on the Wood & Eyre ranch in Pine Valley. Range site and conditions surveys were completed this month by Mr. Andrews. A tour of this ranch was conducted by the Twin-M Twin-M SCD at the request of supervisors supervis-ors from the Delta SCD. Three Delta supervisors and their unit |