Show 11 1 Conser conservation vahon notes by W V lail earl work unit conservationist james al gatherum over in the escalante river soil conservation district recently related a story about distrait cooperator warren J osborn lie ile says that usually a fellow figures lie ho has all the trouble and hla his neighbor has clear sailing but this Is a story of a fellie stop to moan but he got get busy and ad did something about it it seems as though the nearest stock water to his farm was about a mile and a halt away and this water was only temporary but it took two and a halt half miles to get permanent water A round trip with stock required at best two hours to do farming chores and have to use two hours dally daily to water stock was completely out of the question and something had to be done so this flits is what cooperator osborn did he had noticed that after Irr gatlon gation application on the farm above had been made that a seep freshened and ran into a small stream on his place so he took his team and fresno and constructed a dam across the m mouth auth of 0 tile the gully the pond tilled filled and he had water tor for its his stock during the irrigation season when cold weather set in mr Os boins borns pond was too shallow and consequently froze up tight right to the bottom with the result that he be had the old chore back on ills his hands to further enlarge tile the pond with a team would bp slow and manpower was not available so when mr air osborn heard that flint the Esea escalante lante river soil conservation district had bad a bulldozer aval available lale for cooperators ors at operation costs he applied tor for the equipment and scooped out a pond several times larger than tile the original one at a cost of about 40 last year mr air osborn had 25 pigs 50 cows 33 rams and 10 horses all watering at this pond mr osborn says himself that pond Is worth a lot to my place jim further states that warren J has initiated many con sen atlon practices on his farm one a seven acre wheat grass pasture adjoining ills his pond and lie he says it Is really supplying an liev cable amount of forage |