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Show Conservation Readies Peak "Tending to the requests com-inetato com-inetato the Soil Conservation Service Ser-vice offices in Millard and Beaver CUnnr in tryear'namet. ApHl ?Vy work comes at once and each request is the most ,m-portant ,m-portant and an emergency. Conservation work in Millard and Beaver counties is in a boom period. The Millard district board has two tractors and a cement crew working full time. The Beaver Bea-ver district board has two tractors operating full time, but they are not able to keep ahead of re-auests re-auests The Milford board has one tractor on active duty. One private company is doing extensive land leveling there. The State Soil Conservation committee com-mittee held a meeting at Delta last week. The new Delta area soil conservation district will be voted in next month. The district will comprise the Delta area approximately 900,-OOOacres 900,-OOOacres of which over 50,000 acres are irrigated. This is one of the largest irrigated acreages in the state. The Millard and Beaver county districts comprise nearly 5,000,000 acres the largest single work group in the state. Farmers and ranchers are fast realizing that conservation is something we all need to do something some-thing about. |