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Show SOflL- By THOMAS B. EVANS Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District News Your Uintah Basin Soil Conservation Con-servation District is helping you get conservation established on your ground. This is your District Dis-trict and furnishes technicians to help you with your soil and water wa-ter conservation problems. SCS Don Nielson reports that Gordon Gor-don Marsh, of loka, has reorganized reor-ganized the irrigation system on 80 acres of his farm. Irrigation runs have been shortened to 440 feet. ' ' SCS Senior Mortensen and Don Liddell, of Myton, are doing a good job of land leveling with farm tractors. SCS If anyone is planning to make grass plantings on ranges or other dryland areas, now is a good time to do it. Shallow drilling drill-ing of the seed is recommended as the way to obtain best results. SCS Now is also a good time to install in-stall prefabricated headgates. Most of the farmers aren't as busy now as they will be next spring, and the gates can be obtained ob-tained without waiting several weeks for orders'to be filled. SCS Ouray Park Canal has completed com-pleted three large drop structures struc-tures at Avalon. under the supervision su-pervision of B. O. Colton. SCS Conservationists John Strang and Gilbert Horrocks have been assisting Elwood Carter, Tab-iona; Tab-iona; Glen and Carl Van Tassel, Bridgeland; T. M. Gilbert, Arcadia; Ar-cadia; and Floid Hartman and Mrs. Johansen, Mt. Home, in land leveling, reservoir and ditch construction projects. SCS Soil Scientists John Swenson and Don Jones have been making mak-ing land use capability surveys in the Tabiona, ; Mt. Home and Talmage areas this week. Surveys Sur-veys were completed on the Nel-lo Nel-lo Hicken, Nick Killian, Burton Tew, Glendon Sorenson and Harold Har-old Sorenson farms. |