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Show SOHL-AVEEiS SOHL-AVEEiS By THOMAS B. EVANS Uintah' Basin Soil Conservation District News It has been a long, hard winter win-ter and really rough on the feed situation, but those farmers farm-ers or ranchers with irrigated pastures will do better to continue con-tinue to feed a little while longer. Turning livestock into pastures while the soil is wet frequently - results i.i packing the soil so tightly that the necessary neces-sary movement of air and water in the soil will be reduced, which will have harmful affects af-fects on the plants. It is best not to turn livestock into the pastures until the grasses have 3 to 4 inches of leaf growth. Your pasture grasses are now drawing upon the stored food in their roots to make what leaf growth has been made so far. If the grasses are grazed too early, the food factory is destroyed des-troyed before it has time to gel in production and the plants will not have much vigor to put out -leaves the second time. A reduction in vigor will result in reduced pasture yields. Donald Jensen, of Neola, has started construction of 'a pond which will store 6 or 7 acre feet of irrigation water. Marley Hamblin is leveling 25 acres of land on his farm at Montwel. Soil Scientists John Swenson and Don Jones completed soil surveys on the farms of Ray Barney and Arvene Cooper, of Leota; Grant Pickup, of Rand-lett; Rand-lett; Lynn Reynolds, of Vernal, and Reed Clayburn, of Arcadia. A drainage investigation has been started on the Devon Gentry Gen-try farm. . |