Show conservation notes by W earl rhinehart tho the lj oswell new mexico morning bis dispatch carried A very interesting editorial dated october 6 which id like to pass on to you ajmera farmers armera and ranchers hero in hi south central utah it t tells us is in a few words what 8 soil coils conservation er Is train from the standpoint of 0 their editor during tho the past decade we have been hearing the words soil more arid and more frequently ly today one can scarcely road read a without encountering those two words in an article editorial and even in the advertisements what do these words mean to us doubtless the mean different things to dit faient borei t people to man they mean 1 only a government agency costing coating the taxpayer millions of dollars a year to maintain to some farm es ers it may limy moan mean something that they aro ara doing on their farm tor for which the government Is 19 paying them to other people it may bo be nothing moro than some kind of method or device tor for saying saving soil soil conservation can be do fined filled simply as the use and development of our soll soil resource without d destroying 1 it in order for us to live we must make the soil produce our food clothing and much of our shelter but how we do 10 this athla determines liow bow lorig long the soil will continue to support us we cannot libuse abuse or misuse 0 our ur soil sol resource for long without su suffering the ill effects through reduced standards stand aids of living poorer man v eab I 1 si ruction qt life itself when soil destruction becomes complete As aa a nation wo we have made our soil resource source ip produce more and faster than an other nati nation on in history but 1 we do it according to soil conservation principles tor for we have fifth of our original tillable acreage and badly damaged one thircy of the remaining li acreage creage we are still de our basic resource at the rate of one halt half million acres each year I 1 soil conservation is nothing more than proper use and care of the land it means using tile thu land to produce the roost most ot of tho the things wo we need the most and at the same time protecting tt it BO 50 that it will continue to produce at its maximum capacity every acro acre Is riot not like overy every other acre bands like people differ therefore each acre must bo be used coed tor for tho the things it Is best suited to produce and protected according to its needs the basic guiding principle of a sound soil conservation program can then be stated as follows treating according to its an and using it according to its capability 11 |