Show conservation notes by W marl harl Rhine rhinehart haft last week we sort of 0 went into detail on how cooperator lorum pollock down under the idum adum dump P was cashing in on applying g conservation to his land this week I 1 happened to run rua across another case where cooperators clair ford down in kane con county aty soil conservation district found that his conservation plan was paying spaying ivl bends clair was one of tile the first farmers to sign up with the local katie county soil conservation district in 1343 1943 and what I 1 mean clairs one of the most conservation minded farmers in iii the district there were quite a few conservation 0 a practices written up in clairs plan of operations by the soil conservation service technicians helping the local district which he felt were really needed and were sound but the tha one which clairs most enthused about right now Is the small overnight storage reservoir con spruced on his farm last year by the kane county soil conservation district it seems as though clair only gets his water an hour each week from the main ditch when the water Is stored in this reservoir clair Is able to take his time in applying it and can do a much more efficient job than he did before clair also said that before he mafle made this improvement pro he valued his land at about 60 an acre but now he take an acre tor for it it cost clair claar 48 tor for use of the district equipment and 40 for the all tile the engineering and technical assi assistance assistant stane e was furnished shed without cost b by y local son soil conservation service technicians assigned to help the farmers in the kane county soil conservation district heres what clair says about this conse conservation ovation tVa tion practice these are his own words my experience in irrigating land in kanab where the grade is steep and the soil is loose has been that when I 1 tried to water trie field I 1 could not get the water to stay on the land neither could I 1 water any amount of land for the reason the velocity of the water would carry the water in water courses and wash gullies through at a diagonal direction through methods taught by the U S soil conservation technicians assisting the kano county soil district I 1 have installed inn a small reservoir and now I 1 can water tour four times as much land with the same shares of water I 1 am able to keep the water in inthe the furrows and have no water leave the land as waste concluded mr air ford |