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Show COUNTY AGENT TALKS ON LOCAL CONSERVATION By Cum C. Harvey Grant Esplin, Beaver County i Agricultural Agent, talked at a ' special Milford Grade school assembly Tuesday, March 1. 1 His topic was "Conservation Needs and Practices in Beaver I County." j Mr. Esplin's talk was the j tirst of several activities being j planned at the Milford Elementary Element-ary school for March, which has been set aside as the month when all classes will give special spe-cial emphasis to conservation of our natural reources. His talk was illustrated with slides of pictures he had taken in con-' nection with his work as agricultural agri-cultural agent for Beaver county. coun-ty. Some of the people in the pictures connected with the projects were relatives of the boys and girls in tne audience. According to Mr. Esplin, our biggest conservation problem, not only in Beaver County but in all Utah, is water. In the state there are 3,176,000 acres t suitable for crops if adequate J water could be secured. Of these, 1,165,000 acres are being cultivated with irrigation. Also there are 517,000 acres of dry farming. About 775,000 of the j 1,165.000 being cultivated in j Utah need more water. I In Beaver County, about 25,- 000 of a total of 1,600,000 acres I (Continued on Page Three) Wo Imvt' nlways had an abundance abun-dance of food. Mr. Esplin showed tlip hoys and airln pictures pic-tures of the Statue of Liberty, Valley Forgo, and Independence ITall, symbols of liberty. "If wo conserve our resources," re-sources," he said, "we will have a much better chance to keep our liberty than if we become a land of hunger." HERE'S MORE ABOUT CO. AGENT Continued from Page One are being cultivated. If the Central Utah Project we hear discussed so widely at the present time is carried out, we will have about half enough water for cultivation of the :i,'l7(i,000 acres suitable for 'tanning. ' Rainfall in Milford is about I!1 l inches annually. In the mountains there are 40 Inches, and this water is stored and used for irrigation: in the big Minersville reservoir and in five smaller reservoirs in the county. There are many conservation practices which can be used to make the best use of the water available. One is land leveling, another lined ditches and combining com-bining ditches. Hauling water to livestock. Conservation of range is important. Keep a healthy watershed. Prevent erosion. Not over-graze. Building Build-ing windbreaks. These are all found in Beaver County. Keeping up the fertility of the soil is as important as pre venting erosion. Livestock is important in keeping up fertility, fertil-ity, as are such crops as alfalfa. Another conservation measure is spraying of crops for pests, keeping livestock free of ticks, lice, and disease. Weed control is another method of conservation conserva-tion and we have to keep "ight-ing "ight-ing weeds constantly. In Beaver County erosion is not a very great problem but could become one. There are places where we are fighting erosion. Watersheds and forest for-est grazing lands are in a healthy heal-thy slate. Seven farms in the county have pipelines for irrigation, irriga-tion, and this saves about one-third one-third of the water. Sprinkler irrigation system Is being widely wide-ly used in some places in the county and may become a valuable valu-able help to farmers in Beaver County in incroiising production in the future. There are 189 4-II Club boys and girls in Beaver County. One of the chief projects of the National Na-tional 4-11 Clubs is conservation, conserva-tion, and Beaver County Clubs may become active in conservation. conserva-tion. Many boys in the county are Scouts, and conservation is al;o one of their big projects. Mr. Esplin stressed that our population is increasing, which means the need for more food. |