Show II OUR SOIL OUR STRENGTHS STRENGTH Manti personnel Carl Wilker and Howard Broderick are arc In Instructing instructing instructing in- in Earl Gulls' Gulls and George GeorgeW W V Ag Vo-Ag classes in inland inland land judging this week Students Students Students Stu Stu- dents are instructed in The fundamentals fundamentals fundamentals fun fun- of classifying land end and are then taken out in the field where they classify the theland theland theland land by their own skills This is the second year this program has been carried out cooperatively cooperatively lively with the Vo-Ag Vo instructors instruct instruct- ors and Remo Braithwaite has completed completed com com- leveling his pasture land and prepares to seed it this spring Reino TIerno has set up his pastures for a l rotation pasture pasture- management system Hal Lowry plans to seed tall heat grass on an additional acres of his salt grass and relatively unproductive mea men dows H Hal l has several acres of tall wheat grass established and gets excellent use of it Itis It Itis Itis is especially recommended for highly saline soils Parley Peterson who has hns hauled milk for years tells me that there are 80 families in inthe inthe inthe the Manti ManU area for whom he once hauled milk wh who do not even own a cow now It seems the necessary equipment for modern dairying has all but el eliminated eliminated eliminated el- el the small dairy herd Ephraim ONiel Larsen signed up as a anew anew anew new cooperator with the Sanpete Sanpete San San- I pete ONiel plans ta to level approximately 30 acres to provide provide pro pro- vide ide for better water management management management manage manage- ment and to plan a rotation pasture pasture pasture pas pas- ture and cropping system 1 Reed Recd Noyes T is leveling ap approximately approximately ap- ap proximately 11 acres north of Ephraim this week Reed also plans to install a steel ed concrete this spring President Reuel Christensen has constructed new fencing to protect ne new ne v seeding and R Reed e e d Larson is building new cross- cross f fences for rotation grazing Equipment will be scheduled for Clifford Peterson's Petersons farm soon to level about 15 acres on the Waldemar Valdemar Sorensen farm Cultivate only to kill weeds I Ido do not compact soil by harrowing harrowing harrowing harrow harrow- I ing disking and driving rubber- rubber 1 tired equipment over it These needless operations cost money I and ond reduce yields Float land only to provide for efficient Iri ir ir- ir rg i Conservation is fundamentally fundamental fundamental- ly an ethical problem problem- resting upon faith in universal operation i of scientific laws and upon re respect respect respect re- re for the importance of the human humm individual It is also an anaesthetic anaesthetic anaesthetic aesthetic p pro r rob o b 1 l e m requiring sound and harmonious design of our activities and the setting in which we carry carryon Paul B. B Sears n |