Show SOIL CONSERVATION By Smith Louis Myers was In the office the other day and remarked that the Soil Conservation Service Just about he out of business In the winter ground Is all frozen so there cannot be any And there Is so much Ice along the edges of all the streams that there Is no erosion of stream banks And so In spite of our ing on erosive slopes 1 per cent to 5 per cent referred to as Irrigation chutes of and every potato furrow being an erosion we still have soil after nearly years of Louis has given us the The land can stand a lot of abuse for a short because we put it down in cold storage for most of tho will prevent erosion the of the Speaking of Calvin Wilson has several varieties of wheat grasses growing on his place up In the head of Hillsdale And he reports that wheat grass does very matures and cattle like even after it is dry and Intermediate wheat grass produces a little and matures and Is eaten almost as readily as wheat Tall wheat grass has been Calvin's While it will grow Mime stems over six It will not mature seed In the short season he has And while it produces a lot of the cows don't eat It when they can get something He has some hay was cut before and some and his cows avoid One cold day this our engineer was in the office designing flumes and other and Howd Clark H. came Clark Is the old engineer that has become as much a land-mark as the hills around our He has walked up and down all the drainage-ways In the selecting dam Bites and figuring water And very few land owners have not had him locate a corner or design u He didn't have Federal agencies to finance his or Garfield County might be better He left us with some good designing a structure for a big company an engineer must allow a safety factor In figuring the stresses and even though the will lie painted and cared for and But for a who ver maintains a structure nor looks at It again after It Is put you have to design it three times stronger than it so that It can withstand the ravages of time and Merry |