Show OUR SOIL SOIL OUR STRENGTH By Carl Wilker Unit Conservationist Soil Soli Conservation Service Reporting Time July 1 marks the of ofa ofa a new fiscal year for USDA em em- It is also the signal to total up this last years Personnel will be doing just that the first of the the- week We will enumerate the past six months' months accomplishments in the next Issue is sue Fire Time This long dry spell has greatly great great- ly increased d the fire hazard We caution everyone to be very careful careful careful care care- ful with matches cigarettes the burning of trash etc The fire in Flat Canyon North of Fayette started by the highway highway highway high high- way probably due to ta carelessness careless careless- ness with cigarettes Forest Service personnel lo located located lo- lo Gated at Manti ManU are fighting fire near Fishlake this w week ek Mr lr and Mrs Irs Marsel Mr and Mrs Marse moved into Mrs Mae- Mae G Groves Grove's l' l 0 ve s shome home this week Marsel is Soil Scientist for Sanpete and Juab Counties Countie's and will be working working working work work- ing out of Manti for an Indefinite indefinite indefinite period Mr graduated from the BYU in the Spring of 1954 He began working for in Beaver Beaver Beaver Bea Bea- ver County later transferring to Ogden where he has been employed employed employed em em- prior to moving to Manti ManU Soil Conservation Society The Utah Chapter of the Soil Conservation Society of America will hold their annual field tour tourin tourin tourin in Sanpete this year The tour will begin at Indianola Indianola Indianola Indian- Indian ola next Friday July 11 at am a.m. and will center around the Pleasant Creek Watershed Project Pro Pro- The public is invited to attend if they notify one of the local offices Guy Bird and Carl Wilker of the R. R Lynn Nielson of George L. L Burnett of the Forest Forest Forest For For- est Service are the local arrangements arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments committee Did You Know Inow- Inow The U. U S is the largest ex exporter exporter exporter ex- ex porter of farm products In fiscal fiscal fiscal fis fis- fis- fis cal year 1957 the U U. S. S supplied 22 per cent of world Agricultural exports The output of f 60 million acres 1 acre of 5 of cropland moved abroad Held Hel over from last week Land Leveling Frank Keller Keller of Manti h has a s finished his land leveling pro pro- Lee E. E Anderson of Ephraim plans to level land now and again in the fall on the G. G Aaron Hansen farm north of Ephraim New Canyon Seymour Christensen and engineers Brotherson and Beck installed triangular weirs in springs below the New Canyon reservoir site last Friday is now working out de detailed detailed detailed de- de tailed plans for enlarging this reservoir Springs have to be measured to det determine effect on them from variable depths of water ater in the reservoir Drainage A fu preliminary estimate on a atile athe atile tile the drain was given to John K and Floyd Olsen of Ephraim last week High water tables are affecting the crops in their fields this year More Canal Lining engineers are completing detailed plans and specifications for Cor lining approximately 1 1 z miles of canal for the Indi Indianola nola Irrigation company Plans are to begin construction construction tion on this project early next next month Fountain Green Irrigation Co also Iso plans additional canal lining lining lin lining lin- lin ing and plans for the project are axe now underway Fountain Green began modernizing mod mod- their system by lining ditches 3 years ago Their immediate immediate immediate im im- im- im mediate plans are to complete approximately 1 1 miles Juab Farmers Busy Saving Water Farmers and irrigation companies com com- Janies anies in Juab County are gong gong gong go- go ng ng for ditch lining in a big way The companies and indi- indi planning projects are and Delwin Shep- Shep i of Nephi Neph and Sam Faulkenburg Faulkenburg Faulk- Faulk enburg at Trout Creek I |