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Show A SCS Employs District Meetings J ! In Solving Oonservation Problems I BY :OWAPJ IVORY -. I District Conservationist cabi' In line with the recent policy Jopted by the Uintah Basin oil Conservation District super-iiors, super-iiors, group meetings are being jmtfa' 3 wth farmers who have awaiting four to five years lw f technical assistance. Priority w ;-Jbeen given to the older ap-i ap-i ipwi 'ications and neighbors are in-. in-. jmci i -ed to learn more about the driLoi rendercd by the Soil sw , :nservation district. I Meetings were held during the y. I '4 week at Oscar T. Adams' , ?me east of Myton; at Rue lie's home southeast of Mt. I I ane; at Wm, N. Brotherson's j1 me in Boneta; at Reed Lemon's j me in Ioka; at Rex Gardner's ffle in Neola, and at the new fliHouss in Vernal. Organization and arrange- aits for the meetings were T rwJP Louis Jensen ard Wm. y Vrrutaker, county agents for , esne and Uintah counties. were assisted by Howard Ivory, Morris W. Lewis, and want Parrish from the local iJJConservation service office. , I ' : " Spiral an angements were made to have A. Golden Kilburn, state extension conservationist, present at these meetings to explain ex-plain the importance of soil conservation to the individual land owners. Mr Kilburn brought to the attention of his audiences the fact that during 1947, 10,000 acre feet of soil (not water) went down the Colorado Colo-rado river, and it was estimated that at least one half of this came from Utah. 10,000 acre feet of soil would mean a 10,000 acre farm with soil one foot deep. Another interesting figure was that during flood season on the San Juan river in southeastern I Utah, a measurement of the soil I content of the water indicated 37 per cent of the stream was soil. Mr. Kilburn said, "The stream didn't run; it just rolled like a huge mud ball." He pointed point-ed out further that soil is our basic asset. We are all dependent upon it. Regardless of our business, busi-ness, if the soil fails we will fail not only as individuals but as communities, as a state, a nation, and even as a civilization. In addition to Mr. Kilburn's talks on the importance of a sound soil conservation program for every farm, an explanation of land and soil classification was given by John L. Swenson, Soil Conservation service soils scientist, scien-tist, and the principals of a com- plete farm plan were explained I by Morris V. Lewis and Boyd A. , Murray, farm planners at Roos-evelt Roos-evelt and Altonah, |