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Show Land Judging and Treatment Contest Made? ; New Part of College Vocational Day Agenda Arrangements have been completed com-pleted this week between the Iron County Soil Conservation District and the College of Southern South-ern Utah Vocational Day Committee Com-mittee to Incorporate into the agricultural ag-ricultural activities a land judging judg-ing and treatment contest. School teams of three men from the SCS Zone No. 5, including includ-ing Millard, Beaver, Iron, Washington Wash-ington and part of Kane county, will participate in the event this ( year, pecording to Howard Stokes, soils man with the Iron County district. Eforis to incorporate the land and soil training in the schools of the zone was undertaken last fall and each school has run off a contest to select the team to participate in the judging contest con-test this Saturday, April 16. This being the first year, all of the schools of the zone will not participate. However, it is expected ex-pected that teams from Kanab, Enterprise, Cedar City, Parowan, Fillmore, Hurricane and possibly Beaver, will participate. Would Expand Program The SCS zone oficials hope to build the program in the years to come so that the zone winners can participate in the state-wide contest and possibly continue to the national contest in Oklahoma City. This year Stokes, of the County district, and Glen Wahlquist, agronomist ag-ronomist at C S U, have laid out the course for the first contest to be staged. In addition the district committee com-mittee Is presenting a rotating plaque to the winning school. The plaque will be rotated to the winning school each year until one school has won for three consecutive years, then the plaque will be awarded to that school permanently. The program has been, set up to initiate an interest In the vocational-agriculture departments of the high schools for conservation. conserva-tion. Wahlquist indicated that the agriculture department of the the college is more than happy to cooperate with the land judging judg-ing contest, for the reason that the conservation of the land is the basic fundamental in all agricultural ag-ricultural and livestock endeavors. endeav-ors. The contest will be unique In the vocational day program at C S U in that it will pit judging judg-ing teams w ho have already competed com-peted on the local levels. |
