Show conservation notes note S by b W kill earl during the last three months month 8 weve been passing on oil to you farmers here in gai garfield field county the way some of our oui neighbors have been taking advantage of theli their local soil boil conservation district programs iams weve wee talked about how its brict cooperators coope down in kane here heie in upper sevier seller and down under the dump on oil the parla have put money in theli their pockets through conservation conse farming tills this time id I 1 d like to tell how cooperator coo aerator E at K over in the escalante river saved bayed eves elves from possible one olle hundred 1 eves elves on mi air Sli escalante ranch lanch were saved saied from certain death last winter antei because lie he decided to follow a conservation practice that added acres of rye re to his range land mr air who cooperates with the escalante river soil conservation Cons district had biad ewes last fall that were in such poor condition that they couldn coulden t be taken to a winter range ile he turned them on oil a rye re pasture that lie he planted in the tall fall of 1943 and today the ewes have I 1 recovered covered le their health and araj are producing lambs mi air started his con program in ill 1913 1943 concentrating cent rating on the development of additional range lange forage heien ty acres of rye planted in 1943 provided spring feed tor for lambing out ewes after lambing sufficient rye re was vas harvested hai vested to plant an additional so 80 acres mr air says sais this additional forage brought him a gain of sheep tile ewes which would have died on the lie winter range and their lambs A months feed for 1700 sheep was also provided on the ranch through the con coi st ruction of a stock pond opened on a 1000 acre acie area that lad had been because it was too try dry tills this development remove remote the herd from a heavily grazed area in tile lie forest foiest for a month |