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Show - I Cl V E M y PLEDGE AS AN AMERICAN TO SAVE AND FAITHFULLY TO DEFEND FROM WASTE THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF MV COUNTRY-ITS SOIL AND MINERALS. ITS FORESTS. WATERS, . AND WILDLIFE t ... SOIL-AVERS SOIL-AVERS By Howard M. Ivory Uiniah Basin Soil Conservation District News The Soil Conservation Service office at Vernal is now located in the Coltharp Building. Farmers Farm-ers who wish to contact Soil Conservation Service personnel at this location should call at Room 5, at the east end of the second floor. This move was made so that it would be possible pos-sible to worker closer with the Uintah County P.M.A. committee commit-tee and the Farmers Home Administration, Ad-ministration, which are both located lo-cated in the same building. A tour was made recently with the Alterra group of Young Farmers. They visited the Senor Mortenson farm and saw the drainage work, his farm ponds and irrigated pastures. They visited vis-ited Horace Allred's place to see his beef feeding set-up, and at the Roosevelt ward farm they observed the border method of irrigation. At the Hugh Murray Mur-ray farm the group saw land leveling job completed this spring and a waste water disposal dis-posal structure which dropped the water into the gulch along the east side of the farm. The final stop was at the Regional Welfare farm, where the dairy set-up was observed along1 with some stream bank erosion which occured last summer, s C s Cecil Murray recently completed com-pleted 12 acres of land leveling level-ing on the Wm. Akhurst farm north of Vernal. Mr. Akhurst plans to plant most of this l&nd to permanent pasture', sCs Eighteen acres of farm land have been staked for leveling on the Vern Huff farm at Le-ota. Le-ota. Mr. Huff will complete this leveling with his farm tractor and scraper. -sCs-Orson Nielsen has completed 20 acres of leveling on his farm at Leota. The job was done by Harry Pledger with a farm tractor and scraper. |