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Show S.C.S. District Reports Successful Year Never will the need for using us-ing proper soil and water conservation con-servation practices on every acre ac-re in the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation Con-servation district be more important im-portant than in 1951. when America's soil will be called upon to produce food and fiber to help us meet the world s crisis, Alden D. White, chairman chair-man of the board of supervisors, supervis-ors, declared today. "It is only through the proper pro-per use of every acre of our land that we can protect the soil from serious erosion damage," dam-age," Mr. White said. "This is especially true," he continues, "when we consider that our soil has been under strained production during and since World War II." Mr. White pointed out that the 389 cooperators of the district dis-trict made considerable pro gress in the application of soil and water conservation practices on 521,940 acres of farm and ranch land during 1950, but that a big job still remains ahead, "The use of conservation practices usually means greater great-er production," Mr. White declared, de-clared, and pointed out that many Uintah Basin farmers and ranchers have found that crop yields have been increased by 25 per cent or more through proper conservation methods. The district cooperators followed fol-lowed recommended crop rotations ro-tations on 1325 acres, planted green manure crops on 289 acres and seeded 351 acres of irrigated pasture in 1950. Irrigation improvements have been made on 256 farms, with resultant savings in water and labor, and higher crop yields. More than 3500 acres have been leveled. Ditch systems have been relocated on 4500 acres, 2283 structures for improved im-proved irrigation have been installed, and 39,808 linear feet of soil-saving dikes have been built. Ranchers controlling 451,127 acres in the district have boosted boost-ed beef and sheep production by better grass management, including such measures as adjusting ad-justing stock numbers to the forage supply, deferred and rotation ro-tation grazing, and better distribution dis-tribution of animals. The district I has assisted stockmen in building build-ing 258 stock water develop- ' ments. The Uintah Basin district was organized on Oct. 28, 1940, with an area of 5,423,000 acres. This is the largest Soil Sonser-vation Sonser-vation District in Utah, which now has a total area of 41,000,-OOOf 41,000,-OOOf acres in organized Soil Conservation districts. Under provisions of an agreement with the U. S. Soil Conservation service, ser-vice, technical assistance is provided pro-vided to aid cooperators in carrying car-rying out their soil and water conservation programs, Mr. White said. All affairs of the district are managed by a board of supervisors super-visors which includes Alden D. White, Roosevelt, chairman; Joe Wilken, Hanna, vice chairman; Marvin Smith, Vernal, board member; LaRue Pickup. Rand-lett, Rand-lett, board member; Leslie B. Goodrich, Bluebell, board member. mem-ber. District plans for 1951 are now being formulated and the greatest emphasis will be placed upon seeding1 range, seeding irrigated ir-rigated pastures, proper application applica-tion of irrigation water, development devel-opment of farm ponds, and irrigated ir-rigated land preparation. |