Show SOIL CONSERVATION By Justin Smith The first leveling In flat bench terraces In Garfield County was done on the land of Eldan Porter and Bishop Jesse S. near and last week principal of the Hatch asked me down to explain conservation of Irrigated Miss Thalia Riggs brought her class In Her pupils surely like They come to school early and she can't get them to go home after school Is Most of the pupils had seen the bench which are a-bout a mile over the hill to the west of Just the same I showed them my They all recognized the picture of Ver-mon who stood with his father by the road grader on their farm the day the terraces were finished and first Bishop Wilson has told me of gardens within the town of Hatch that have had washed off by irrigation water in the last 50 until by now the soil that Is left will not produce a good If the land had been levei it would still he there and My oldest was born in upper New York State in what Is called the of New York The soli over the rock there so thin that the only profitable farming that Is possible any more is grass and the farmers there have found dairying to be more profitable than raising because they are close to their The winters there If colder than what we have here In and It was interesting to me to see that after the first heavy the cows are put Into the and kept there until after the last thaw In the Those New York farmers think that their cows give more milk to If they are kept in warm barns during severe cold and as they haven't much soil they can't afford to spoil it by letting their animals trample it and puddle it while it is |