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Show Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District News By Don B. Nielson Do you know that 12 to 16 pounds of powdered blue vitriol per surface acre will kill the moss, algae and charr from your fish pond. For best results the blue vitriol should be applied before the moss gets too well established. Stop in at your local loc-al Soil Conservation Service of fice and make an appointment with a technician to help you do .the job right. SCS Fred Goodrich, of Bluebell, repaired and enlarged the storage stor-age pond damaged by the flood this spring. SCS Morley Dean, of Independence, Indepen-dence, has a good crop of grain on the area he ' drained last spring. Morley is preparing to level about 35 acres of thi drained area before planting a crop on it this fall SCS It is important to mow you pasture after it has been fed off to even it up and eliminate the tall ungrazed bunches of grass It is suggested that the mowed grasses be left where they fall for the cattle to eat along with , the green feed. SCS I Uintah Basin Irrigation Company Com-pany in Pleasant Valley is installing in-stalling a combination ' divider and parshall flume near the end : of the canal. SCS C. M. Bolton at Ballard is I having a siphon installed to re-I re-I place an old flume on his farm near the RW Barn dance ha1.. The structure is on the soutn side of the highway. Mr. Bolton invites anyone who is interested to look this over. SCS The Soil Conservation Service is cleaning out 1500 linear feet of channel above the Dry Gulch "C" and "D" diversion that had been filled in by debris from the flood. This work is being carried out under the emergency flood program. SCS Albert Marchant, of Hancock Cove leveled five acres of land last week. SCS The Service is receiving many applications for assistance in re- i storing canals and diversions that have been damaged by the 1952 flood and also for cleaning out stream channels that have been silted in. SCS v Spencer Squire has been using us-ing border ridges to irrigate about 30 acres of his farm in Ballard during the past two years. Spencer uses a small farm terracer attachment to his tractor trac-tor to build the ridges and says he is sold on the system. His ridges are about 15 feet apart. The ridges have a settled height of about 4 inches and average about 3 feet wide. The ridges are graded out on each side so equipment can cross over them easily and conveniently. convenient-ly. SCS Ross Monsen, of Bluebell, has enlarged a farm pond. s c s Bernard Winkler, of Bluebell, has built a pond. SCS Francis Ross has installed a complete ditch system on his new 160 acre farm in Pleasant Valley. Before the irrigation season is over he will install drops and headgates to prevent the main ditch from getting too deep. SCS Wilfred Oberhansley installed a completely new ditch system on his new 160 acre farm in Pleasant Valley. Before the irrigation irri-gation season is over he will install in-stall drops and headgates to prevent pre-vent the main ditch from getting too deep. SCS Wilfred Oberhansley has installed in-stalled a completely new ditch system on the 80 acre farm ha recently purchased at White-rocks. White-rocks. SOS" Those farmers who have built headgates, flumes, etc.. which the Soil Conservation Service must certify to MA for pay-ment, pay-ment, should contact the Sb;l Conservation Service office for an appointment so that the structures can be inspected and certified. Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty; they defi ne every man's rights, and defend the individual in-dividual liberties of all men. Josiah G. Holland |