| Show conservation notes I 1 by b W V earl h you farmers and ranchers here in grfield county might be interested in knowing the extent to which the state and reglo regional al offices of the soil conservation service go in training their men to give you the most up tal date help helb I 1 one of our conservationists down in kane county nal namely liely boyd A murray has recently returned from albuquerque where some of the topnotch top notch technicians in the soil conservation service really put a few conservationists through the training ropes we in this service feel that the b best est services we can render to you people who are interested in conserving your land should always be in the best state of improvement prove pro meat boyd was telling us the other day that lie sure felt a lot more qualified now to tackle the conservation problems down in kane county the regional boys called boyd into albuquerque along with 16 other conservationists for this or orientation ent atlon training school between the period october 15 to november 10 he said that this was not a snap course and that the boys in the regional office really worked farmers hours there was no eight hour day or five days a week they would start in early monday morning and those fellows did nt seem to know when the sun went down furthermore a good of this work was not conducted in the office actual field training was conducted right out in the field on the farms and ranches around albuquerque the course included both administrative and technical phases ol of work of the soil conservation service the administrative phase which was introductory and general included a review of tho organization and functions of the soil conservation service and of the department of agriculture and of the policies and procedures involved in the field of personnel management fiscal and procurement the major part of the training school was devoted to technical phases of the conservation program which included agronomy range engineering biology forestry foi estry and soils and was designed to give the boys a better understating of the technical program and the relationship of soil to plant and animal life in addition to this considerable time was spent in the study of land use capability and farm planning principles and procedures ce an hotop to top this oft off additional i on the ground training Is worked in as a regular part 0 ot f our work in order to give you the beat possible assistance |
