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Show June THE CITIZEN Egypt Woman Back From Arizona Visit 17, 1971 NEWSLETTER SOIL FRANKLIN DISTRICT CONSERVATION named Amy a week ago Sunday in the Preston Fifth ward by her grandfather, Ralph Porter. 'Lyle Porter came from Portland, Ore., for the occasion and spent the weekend with his parents, the Ralph Porters. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Owen attended two wedding receptions Friday evening, one in Winder for Miss Charlene Nielsen and Forrest OHverson and one in Lagan for Miss Carol Steffan and Stewart Richins. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Alder have had (heir granddaughter, Gail Olsen of Bakersfield, Calif., living with them during the school term. Last week her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Olsen, came to get their daughter. They visited a few days with 'the Alders. Mr. and Mrs. Alton Alder of Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald and Mr. and -in-law. Mrs. Wesley Keller of Logan Mr. and Mrs. Wade Porter spent Memorial Day at the had their baby daughter Alfred J. Alder home. EGYPT Mrs. Elmer Hulse returned home from Phoenix where she has been visiting the past three months with her daugiter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Harrington. Mr. end Mrs. Jesse Johnson and family were dinner guests on Memorial Day of his mother, Mrs. Beatrice Johnson in Preston. Other callers present were (Mrs. Lee Winslow and family of Salt Lake City. Late afternoon callers were the Lee Johnsons of Logan. Mr. and Mrs. Dee Petter-bon- g had a birthday dinner for her mother, Mrs. Owen Ames of Preston, Thursday evening. Also present for the occasion were Mr. Ames and her sister, Mrs. Gladys Rich-in-s of lindon, Ut. There were gifts and a birthday cake few Mrs. 'Ames. Mrs. Richins spent two days last week visiting with her sister and has (3) Rodweed only as ne- will be far reaching in scope and pollution control pracchanged. The lake or stream The conversion of 'the dr; fishing hole where they re cropland to pasture wouV cessary to kill the weeds dur- and important to the social tices will increase the farm member catching the big one create many desirable envir- ing the fallow year. and economic well being of income by $1,660.72 per year By LaMON BAIRD (4) Use a skew treader in the area. It would slow down to pay for the practices. ' The now only be a mud hole onmental features but at an may ' District Conservationist the once beautiful meadow extremely high social' and late summer when the straw the rate at which many of the annual cost of the practices ' is dry and easily broken only mail towns and cities of the equals 84,305.82 (848,380 amto area, difcost roll economic wed the beautiful the What is pollution? To patch; ferent people it is different ing cropland disected aix The resource area would sup- if the straw is too heavy to area are losing their valuable ortized at 8 percent for 30 human resources. A large years). Financial assistance unsightly from erosion; an port one ranch operation in drill through. things. To the housewife (5) Seed with a deep fur- percent of the energy and fin- of 61 percent of die total cost is dirty water in her culinary their pleasant dreams of relationship to 10 family siz" childhood may be gone for- ed ancial resources presently be- of the practices is required dryland farming opera row drill. system. To the dry fanner The above tillage sequence ing spent by all sections of for the farmer to break even. tions. The 'adverse 'soda is ditches washed across his ever. summer Callow or winter Sediment from the dry and economic impact in the affords excellent protection to the local societies fighting A farm management decision To the irrigated cropland areas is a costly rural family farm population the Jand and is effective in erosion and sediment pollu- to invest one's financial rewheat. farmer it is that thick soupy problem. Sediment in the would be great reducing the forces off the tion could be turned to more sources usually is not made raindrop against the Soil sur- fruitful endeavors of improv- without some financial incenUnder a dryland liquid leaving his bottom wrong places causes many field carrying mud, fertilizers types of damages. The folrotation a good land man- face and snowmelt runoff in ing and beautifying the sur- tive. An estimated benefit-coroundings. and crop residues. To the lowing are a few of them: margin of 1.5 or 2.0 to agement program including the early spring, districts a are factors Road is that the need borrow Three to considered desir(1) man dark is the good it structural and Gleaning both usually green agronodairy liquid leaving his corral or pits of roads at approximately mic land treatment practices be considered when convert- example. Presently the road able for long term investbarn yard after a rain or $2 per ton. are necessary to combat the ing to this sequence of tillage districts spend from 20 to 30 ments of over 20 years due to 1 o n erosive forces of nature. To 1 To snow the melt. (2) percent of their annual bud- the higher risks and mere inGleaning irriga practices are as follows: spring (1) Possible purchase of gets to repair erosion and tangible factors involved. A rural and urban human popu- canals at approximately SO protect the resources in sediment damages. 'A good financial assistance of 74 perlation it is septic tanks fluent cents per ton. rotation requires new machinery. grain-falk(2) Possible reduction in erosion and sediment pollu- cent far the application of the filtering to the soil surface, (3) Swamping and flood- the proper combination of the tion control program on the needed erosion and pollution Ail these things have some ing of lands adjacent to following agronomic am crop production. (3) Proper timing of the dry cropland would probably control practices on the study effect on our society. This streams which have decreas- structural land treatmen reduce this expenditure by 70 farm would create an estinews letter will deal with dry ed in size because of the ag- practices: minimum tillage sweeping operation. land erosion problems in Sou- gradation Of the channel by stubble mulching, ' contour Research indicates there is to 80 percent. The reduction mated 1.5 to 1 benefit-cos-t thern Idaho. Research shows silt. fanning, strip cropping, ter a variation in crop produc- expenditures on repairs would margin for a favorable farm' that the most soil loss occurs of destruction races, diversions, small de- tion between black fallow and be devoted to improving, up- ers managerial decision or (4) The in rain Call areas where there spawning beds for fish. bris dams, and grass water- a good stubble mulch pro- grading, and beautifying the incentive to apply the practices. are 4 inches annual pregram The temperature and road system. (5) The loss of fish faabi ways. The application of these cipitation. This fits the maj- tat in general. Farmers in the area have moisture conditions in the The application of the needRIVERDALE Mr. and and Mrs. John D. Jensen and erosion been consoil altered have ed and on the study farm or part of FYankiin County. the pollution by practices (6) The cost of building made tremendous progress insulating effect of the straw. trol too Mrs. wiH are Andersen Orval have children, Julie and Jennifer reduce sediment the practices costly additional storage in major over the last 10 years. The This climatic of San Francisco, Mr. and to in rethe tons will increas9,996 change relationship ' been ' yield by the annually, of stubble has nearly vacationing past Mrs. Vernon Dry Crop Land downstream reservoirs for burning D. Jensen and in sult a ed income to farm increase An 50 created cents ton assumed in slight per been eliminated. The use of week in southern California sediment. of Pocatello in the individual daughter Betty farmers and expect production years dry By JAMES R. SHELTON average weighted damage or disk moldboard he ' plow visited Disneyland, San and Mr. and Mrs. Wifford They (7) The added cost of to reduction sediment finanwithout wet in them out over time for of apply slight More attenAgric. Economist SCS, Idaho cleaning sediment out of tas decreased. Diego and Tiajuana, Mexico Robinson of Laketown, Ut. cial assistance. Hie erosion place results in an ' We must control the rate municipal and industrial wat- tion has been given to fami- years. amount on of one time The in Enroute home they stopper They took pictures of the a Rock to farm has benefit of 84,998 study compared ng on the contour. A few n the of erosion and offsite sedi er supplies. ' families and visited. Mr. of Creek indicates the the to an of benefit 8V spring applicawatyear in and diversions, Granger and Bountiful to Jensen was erraces, jnent pollution in' our dryland do of successful 680.72. needed The higt cost of tion erosion a the presented with a (8) opsweeping constructbeen visit relatives. farming areas. Can we af- cleaning sediment from resi- erways have wrist watch by his family. eration is greatly reduced ed. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Rosen ford to do this within allow dential and commercial proWeekend guests of the W. over the use of a moldboard A good stubble mulch proable limits? The remaining F. had and Rindlisbakers were Mr. sister her or disk floods. Fanners after husband, plow. planisoil resources must be pro- perties gram is necessary to protect and Mrs. Ray Peterson and diffind Mr. a it and Mrs. James ng of crop spring The (9) Ostergar smothering he ground surface during the ficult to meet the tected for the enjoyment and proper time of Sacramento visiting them family of Kemmerer, Wyo., use of future generations. The crops and lawns by a few allow year from the force of and Mr. and Mrs. for using a nches of sediment. for a week recently. ' Memor- oreaux of Kearns. Ray Lam he raindrop. The straw cov- requirement Off site sediment pollution the is If cold sweep. spring ial weekend guests were her (10) The loss in aesthetic er breaks the force at which problems will cause the deMrs. Don Carter and chiland wet, it becomes almost brother and wife, Mr. am dren were in Salt Lake predation of entire areas un- values of once clear streams. he rain hits the ground sur- impossible to do a successful City ' Mrs. Reed Olsen of Idaho for less more protection is given It is beyond the scope of face, reducing its pulverizing a few days last week visit' sweeping operation. Falls and the Lyle Bosen to the sail resources. his paper to try and identify and sealing effect. This slA successful sweeping opering with her mother, Mrs. family of Lewiston, Ida. The irreversible ' adverse the damages caused ' from ows more moisture to ' be ation in the spring of the (Malhvard. Lyle Kevin Smith of Pocatello the soil and fallow ecological effect of not con- sediment. A value of 50 absorbed intorunoff. is desir always year and his brother Joel, a stu FRANKLIN BRIEFS trolling the simple erosion cents per ton overtime was thus reduces able for reducing erosion and dent at ISU in Pocatello, visMany farmers realize the and sedimentation problems assumed to equal the weightimportant in maintaining ited Saturday with their moThe Stone family met last are far reaching. ' Parts of ed" average damages per ton mportance of a good stubble crop yields. If the sweeping Mrs. are mulch Leila A out Smith. ther, of sediment all program. They Middle place. the and Thursday night and had dinnot Spain, Italy, successful, operation is The fight against erosion concerned, however, about the daughter, Lee Ann, is em- ner together in honor of their East exemplifies an extremehis works either fanner a good stubployed in Jackson Hole, Wyo., ly higi degree of adverse eco- and sediment pollution is ev- low to maintain ' fathers 83rd birthday. Those ground too mulch in trying to for the summer. ble mulch without The business. best causing conservnot of effects eryones logical dll weeds or reverts to the enjoying dinner and visiting Mrs. 30, weed of Lou Iva to mown sediment Herd May agronomic problems way fight use of the plow. In either ing ttie natural soil resources. and children, Karen, Defaby were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. A similar situation may occur pollution ' is through erosion control and reduced crop case, the ground drys out and Nancy, of ' Idaho Falls Stone of Mapleton, Mr. and in southern Idaho in the next control. In the dry cropland yields. more than normal and reand Mrs. Gail Shaffer and Mrs. L. Richard of eroThe following sequence 200 years. The ecological ef- areas of southern Idaho Jensen and duces his chances of obtain-n- g conon the controlled be sion daughter tillage Robyn of Preston Mr. and Mrs. Bert Winn of practices sedimenby may fects of erosion and stand of fall wheat. a good visited at tour Orville the will the leave areas usually Neeley tation are relatively slow and either planting large new farm program will home. That Monday, dinner Preston, Mr. and Mrs. Mermaximum amount of straw The easily overlooked by the' peo- back to' grass or by applying on farmenable a the surface In which grain guests of the Neeleys were lin P. Stone of Ogden and Mr. ple living within the area. rather expensive ' structural er to plant up to 45 percent Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bige- and Mrs. Ruben Ooambs of seeded: can be treatment more noticeable land practices by They are this cropland to wheat. low and daughter Jean Marie (1) Chisel the standing More family members who have along with a good agronomic thus less fall crop, of Idaho Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher. left the area without return- program. Easier method of stubble in the fall after har- spring crop, will free valua-l- e David Jensen and son Eric of Enjoying dinner with Mr. vest. ing for many years. The control would have a signifineeded time the in spring Use a (2) Montpelier, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Conrad Doney were sweep for the for a successful sweeping opplaces and things they re- cant social, economic, and Kelvin Smith of Pocatello and heir family, Dr. and Mrs. in the on first the environmental operation spring impact member which brought them eration. Mrs. Leila Smith of River-dal- Devon Doney and family of of the fallow year. area. have and enjoyment pleasure Surface moisture cannot allyrum, Bishop and Mrs. Seth ways be absorbed into the soil Mr. and Mrs. Marve Pack- Allen and family of Cove, Mr. even with a good stubble er were in Tremonton Friday and Mrs. Richard Harris and mulch program. This results to help their son Stanley and son Richard of Franklin. AfFOR YOUR FARMING NEEDS SEE US A in runoff. good stubble family of Salt Lake City get ternoon callers were a mulch program with the opsettled in their new home. n her, Mr. and Mrs. Phil eration of machinery on the -Mr. and Mrs. Harry KirkFHANKLIN COUNTY GRAIN GROWERS. INC. of Lewiston. contour will greatly reduce land and son Boyd and Mr. 4 Preston, Idaho Telephone the amount of sheet and rill and Mrs. Philip Outright and erosion. The straw on and family of Salt Lake City spent FERTILIZERS AND APPLICATION near the surface of the Memorial weekend with Mrs. ground functions as a retardFEEDS AND DELIVERY Varita Woolf. She had a sisFOR EVERYONE RANKING SERVICE TULL ant to the rate water moves ter, Mrs. Ada Sharp of GARDEN SUPPLIES SPRAYS SEEDS down the slope. This reducGranger, as an overnight Groups, Weddings, Indlvldul tion in water velocity reduces PRESTON STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS PHONE 853 - 1788 guest one day last week. Mrs. Color or Black & White its erosion force. The straw Woolf was in Preston calling is extremely effective in reCommercial on Mrs. Harvey Rasmussen Photographs ducing water velocity as long one day last week. Genealogy Copies Last as it is held by the soil on weekend a granddaughter School Photographers both sides of the rill. Terand husband, Mr. and Mrs. races constructed across the Ronald Winkler and two chil- 111 Work Guaranteed YOUR BANK IS AS NEAR AS YOUR MAILBOX PRESTON. IDAHO slope could prevent this. Marie and Chad, of Sait dren, There are two types Of Lake City, were her guests. Graddtnt terraces When Yon Bank at Memorial weekend guest of FOR ALL DRAIN. IRRIGATING. SEWER safely convey the excess watand Mrs. Ray C. BarBishop OR CORRUGATED METAL PIPE er off the field. Level terPhone was Miss Velma Edrington races hold the excess water wards of Salt Lake City. CaU on the field in the terrace. Mrs. Vernon Jensen had a 852 - 0854 The spacing between terraces dinner for her hus-- i xirthday PRESTON PIIONE 852 2850 852-005y is determined by soid LEE REDINGT0N 7 Preston land last Thursday. ' Coming Ph. of and steepness Idaho event for the iiome were Mr. Phone Preston, LEWISTON, UTAn slope. If the topography of the area is too rough and uneven for terraces, small dams may be substituted when practical. However, terraces cannot be expected to handle all the runoff. Grass waterways are needed to carry the excess water Pn. 801 LEWISTON, UTAn safely from the farm or area. Grass waterways are difficult DITCH LINING -LAND LEVELING to hold and costly to maintain until the other land treatment LAND PLANNING -SUB SOILING J.L. Burton been ajrpJicd. have practices x SEEDS COAL GRAIN FEED EARTH EXCAVATION returns from The MIXING ROLLING CHOPPING erosion and sediment control f SQUIBB INSULIN? POLLUTION STRUCTURES 4 Phone E. 4th South can be measured only from a Preston, Idaho iyjf I; AD Q U ART R S' long-teranalysis. For this study the effects of a good erosion control program were projected and evaluated over time period. This a NEW AND FULL SERVICE BUT PROGRESSIVE LAND RANK LOANS type of projection is difficult due to the variations in weaAS CONSERVATION. ther, price, and many other Term We Give Yen Long factors over the evaluation LET US SERVE YOU. An evaluation period period. 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