Show I Conservation Notes by I By W. W Earl Rhinehart 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 From time to time in Garfield and Kane Counties I have been asked Just asked Just what part does Soil Conservation Service play in helping farmers In answer to this question I might say that tha through its Nation wide program of work on the land and cooperation cooperation cooper cooper- with soil conservation dis districts districts dis- dis I the Soil SoU Conservation Service Service Ser Ser- Ser Ser-I vice has led in the development de I and application of new and improved improved im im- proved measures for the control of erosion conservation of rainfall rainfall rain rain- fall and improvement of or land use The Service is helping individual individual individual indi indi- vidual farmers and ranchers as aswell aswell aswell well as groups of farmers and ranchers ranchero to adopt these practical measures over the widest possible possible possible ble area and to solve other problems related to the maintenance maintenance maintenance main main- of soil productivity The Soil Conservation Service is not a lending agency and makes no benefit payments oj of o any kind to farmers Essentially it is a corps of trained experienced experIenced experienced specialists in land plants animals and land use organized ed to work cooperatively with the farmers out on their land I chiefly by supplying technical assIstance assistance assistance as as- I all the way from planning planning planning plan plan- ning the work to helping with its application and maintenance And too the Service carries on In cooperation with the States throughout the country a program program program pro pro- gram for the development of new and better methods of conservation conserva conserva- I tion and for getting Immediate practical answer to Questions question that are arc constantly arising in connection with the operational program If there were some standard simple remedy for the ill ills of the land that could be applied indiscriminately the job of sol soil Continued on last lout page paRe Conservation Notes Continued from tram page one c conservation would be comparatively comparatively cas easy But there Is about as much variety In soil and erosion erosion erosIon ero ero- sion and In the performance of water wind and plants as the tho landscapes of tho the country It is possible that even oven on neighborIng neighbor- neighbor Ing lug farms and often orten in the tho same field land problems are almost never completely identical And Andin AndIn AndIn in those localities ies where such atthe of at the precipitation Is In the form of snow special measures aro are required required re required re- re to safeguard farm and and andr r range land In short the soil and water conservation program must be sufficiently flexible to meet all possible conditions and needs I SInco Since society as a whole depends depends depends de de- de- de absolutely on the produce of the tho land for Its present and future existence society as a whole must share In the responsibility responsibility and cost of at maintaining I land In a productive state Dr H. H H. H Bennett Donnett ww w A mining city In the Ural Mountains has been named Molotov Molotov Molo- Molo tov to in honor of oC the Soviet Foreign Foreign Foreign For For- eign Minister The Tho U. U S. S Department of at Agricultures Agriculture's Agricultures Agriculture's Agricultures Agriculture's Ag Ag- Northern Research Laboratory at Peoria Ill Is la experImenting experimenting ex ex- experimenting on tho the practical production production production pro pro- of synthetic liquid motor fuels r f from r l' o a m ft vegetable farm wastes particularly corn cobs of at which one ton may produce as much as gallons DDT should not be bo mixed with whitewash nor applied on freshly fresh fresh- ly white washed surfaces as fresh whitewash Is ls likely to bo be sufficiently alkaline to decompose decompose decompose pose the tho Insect eradicator Billiards In a variety of oC games Is Is played today by an estimated people I Enough energy to bowl one full Cull game of tenpins with a 16 pound ball rolling two balls to toa a frame Is contained In the new high-energy high flashlight battery which is less than 2 J Inches In height and 1 in diameter During Its three weeks of at nestling nest nestling 1 ling life lICe the crow eats about 10 ounces of at food dally daily or a total of or 1 13 y pounds Wo We can observe nations none has ever prospered that failed in its Integrity to tho the land Katherine Katharine Glover in America Begins Again i Soil erosion expresses itself asa asa as asa a deficiency disease of at the land which begets deficiency of food vitality and higher values for peoples and nations Dr Walter Lowdermilk A single dust storm can pick pickup pickup up as must aS a'S million tons of at topsoil and carry it away Regardless of whether agriculture agriculture agri agri- agriculture culture moves In the direction o of more moro corporation farms more cooperative co operative farms or more individual Individual Indi indi- vidual family farms the productive productive productive tive land must bo be conserved Neither a corporation a cooperative cooper cooperative an Individual or a government government government govern govern- ment can bring land back once It is at the bottom of the Gulf of at Mexico or the Indian Ocean I Dont Don't Care Eva Tan the tho Little Cyclone on Legs Legs tells of at the tho giddy days when she was the tho highest paid attraction c on the time big vaudeville stage r j Read it In Tho The American Week f ly Iy tho the magazine distributed With vita 1 r next Los Sundays Sunday's Angeles Et Ex- Out of the Darkness Donald A. 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