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Show Farm Conservation Report gS33S. d t ronservation of soil and water ..more than just putting dams frtSes gullies to keep them from ' Sting bigger. According to Les-' Les-' S Maxfield. chairman of the iiuchcsnc County Agricultural reservation committee, conser-S conser-S is aimed at holding soi . 'wining it productive, control-En control-En excess water and making the most efficient use of water here irrigation is necessary. 5t is a simple matter just to Jve soil, while maintaining and Screasing production is the important im-portant problem. Gullies, he points out. are just one indication of erosion, or of land that is going out of production produc-tion Often hundreds of tons of topsoil have been removed from , field before a fully starts. And "dually sheet erosion results from loss of organic matter in the soil. The chairman mentions some of the practices stressed by the ACP' Farming on the contour or ' across the slopes instead of up and down, cover and green ma- ' nure crops, the use of phosphate to increase the growth of grass and legumes, the seeding of ' grasses and legumes, and practices prac-tices which encourage increased vegetative cover. 'But cultivated crops are nec- essary. too," the chairman points out "Conservation practices under un-der the program are designed to help keep erosion and depletion deple-tion at a minimum while the land is being used for the production produc-tion of the needed food, feed and fiber crops." Pasture Improvement Stressed Calling attention to the pos-i pos-i sibilities of increased food pro-' pro-' duction from better pastures, Lester Maxfield, chairman of the Duchesne County Agricultural Conservation committee, says that too often the pasture is the "most neglected" part of the farm. Good pasture management includes in-cludes proper stocking of the area. Where the pasture is overstocked, over-stocked, something must be done to restore lost fertility or to keep palatable grasses and clo-vers clo-vers coming along with a food vigorous growth. A pasture that is overworked and weak doesn't offer the protection pro-tection needed to keep the land from eroding. To be a part of the protective bulwark against erosion, a pasture must be kept up. The chairman urges that farmers farm-ers keep the pasture in mind when they make their plans for cooperation in the 1949 Agricultural Agri-cultural Conservation program. Details about 1949 practices may be obtained at the Duchesne County Agricultural Conservation Conserva-tion program office located at Roosevelt, Utah. |