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Show M Planning Board Holds Conference The annual conference of the Beaver County Planning board, which was held last Friday, January Jan-uary 31, in the Beaver West ward church, was attended by visitors from all parts of the county. In addition, Director William Peterson Peter-son of the extension service, together to-gether with W. W. Owens, assistant assist-ant director for agriculture; Miss Myrtle Davidson, assistant director direc-tor fur home economics; Misi Elna Miller, extension nutritionist, nutrition-ist, and Wilford Day and Lottie Kimball, members of the state land use planning committee, were present. Reports were given by planning board members on four main toics: irrigation and water conservation, conser-vation, crops, livestock, and better home living. These reports presented pre-sented a brief picture of the present pre-sent conditions in the county, (Continued or. last page) Planning Board j (Continued from first uagei ' made recomendations for improvements, im-provements, and stated spacific goals which the planning board intends to accomplish during the J present year." " " ! Director Peterson stressed the ' importance of our water shed to Beaver county agriculture. He stated that the precipitation which falls on our mountains is brought to us in the valleys, either through; direct run-off or springs The water" which comes, from springs, he said, is the more valuable valu-able because it comes late in the season at a time when it is most : needed. As the conditions of a water shed decreases, he .stated, ' the amount of water coming off ' as a direct flow increases and ! that coming from springs decreas- : es. As the run-off increases he said, its power to erode the soil is tremendously enhanced. He stat-; er that, if a stream capable of moving a :-..one-pound rock were doubled in - size, this would automatically auto-matically double the velocity and make it capable.of mendng a stone weighing C4 pounds. . In view of these facts, he urtjed "the planning board members to make all possible pos-sible efforts 'to- build up their water sheds to a point where excessive ex-cessive mn-off will ' be stopped and spring flow increased. Re- ji carding the Three Creeks reservoir, reser-voir, Director Peterson stated that the big job for local people is to determine how much they can pay for .the water to be stored. He said that when the project was finally- approved for construction, construc-tion, the reclamation service and i other government agencies, such as the WPA, would absorb the cost above this amount. W. W. Owens, during a brief talk encouraged 'Beaver county farmpm to nVnctfc bptpr nasture management. He said that al-1 though, we have som.o very fine pastures in the county, we could iro into almost any pasture in the summer .'and find areas which livestock live-stock do not graze, boSause of un-. scattered. droppings. and unpalatable unpalat-able growth. He sai.d that cows knew more ' about pastures than anyone else, and if we could observe ob-serve thorn grazing-, we would see that they grazed mostly the short grass because it was more palatable palat-able and nutritious. He added that the young growing; grass under four inches will have a protein content of from 35 to 37 percent, which makes it one of the most nutritious feeds there is. By pro-, per . fertilization, cultivation to scatter droppings, mowing to remove re-move old unpalatable growth and rotation grazing, the returns; from our pastures could be great-, ly increased. ' 1 . Miss Davidson and Miss Miller , discussed topics related to better home living and both cited the re-' lationship of good health to national na-tional defense. ii |