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Show Conservation Tour Attracts 150 Over 150 persons from Iron county were taken on a tour of conservation practices in the Ce-,dar Ce-,dar and Escalante valleys last I-iiday by the Iron County Soil Conservation district. Following a stop to view the Columbia Iron Mining operations, operat-ions, the tour continued west to Newcastle and the Alonzo Chris-tensen Chris-tensen farm. Here was seen increased in-creased plantings, pump well and an overnight storage pond. At the Weyl-Zuckerman holdings hold-ings in the Escalante valley, the group saw 3100 acres tilled out of a possible 4000, farming, under an eight-year crop rotation rota-tion program, hog culture, 80-acre 80-acre permanent sprinkling system sys-tem and potato cellars 407 feet long. At the junction of the Beryl end Modena highways, the people peo-ple on the tour saw windbreak planting on the John McGarry farm. Through a mechanical seed planter which plants 400-fOO 400-fOO trees per hour, 80,000 trees have been planted in the valley. After seeing a pump well on he F. R. Bekin farm, the group leturned to Cedar City and continued con-tinued on up to Duck Creek, camp grounds, where a special program was held with visitors from the state association of the Soil Conservation department. A picnic lunch was served by the local conservation office to those making the tour. |