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Show SQHL-AVEE15 SQHL-AVEE15 Uintah Basin I Soil Conservation District Newt Mr. Farmer, have you voted for your new Soil Conservation District Supervisors? If you haven't mailed your ballot, will you do it now? The three men receiving the most votes will help manage the affairs of your soil and water wa-ter conservation program for the next three years. These men will not get any money for doing do-ing this job. Their pay will be the cooperation and appreciation apprecia-tion you farmers give for a job well done. -SCD- Douglas Bryant, of Independence, Indepen-dence, has started construction of car and cable stream-bank protection revetments on his farm just south of Victory Park. Doug is following a plan prepared pre-pared by the Soil Conservation Service engineers and will receive re-ceive financial help from Uintah County PMA under the Flood Restoration program. ; -SCD- The Equipment Dealers As-1 As-1 sociation is working with your Uintah Basin Soil Conservation i District. Each equipment dealer and salesman in the Basin will i interview two to five farmers j to find out how well conserva-I conserva-I tion farming is paying off. j Carl Harrison, local Allis-S Allis-S Chalmers dealer, has completed ) his interviews now. -SCD-' Did you know that letting livestock on your rang-e or pasture pas-ture land when the soil is wet, puddles or packs the soil. Puddled Pud-dled or packed soils do not let water or air get into the soil. Without air and water, your grasses cannot give you the tons ) of feed you need for your live-) live-) stock. -SCD- Floyd Case, president of the ) Dry Gulch Irrigation Company, reports the last concrete was poured on the Lake Fork No. ! 1 diversion last week. -SCD- ) Marvin Smith reports the con- tract for constructing a diver-5 diver-5 sion on Ashley Creek northwest of Vernal for the Ashley Upper i Canal Co. was awarded to Red I Stewart. Construction will be-S be-S gin in thirty days. |