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employees services are not directly involved. 

 Districts can ask for and accept contributions 

 so long as it is understood it is for district 

 operations and not for federal government 

 operations 



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Shown above is a single row field windbreak 

 on the John Byrne farm south of Laurel in 

 Yellowstone County. These plantings are one 

 year old, as tall as the wheat, and in excellent 

 condition. The outstanding feature of this 

 man's operation is that he controls the weeds 

 ) about the trees with chemicals. It has been 

 an experiment with him, and where he found 

 it practically impossible to keep the weeds 

 down by clean cultivation , this particular 

 chemical he uses does no apparent harm to 

 the 45 miles of windbreak he has treated. 



Byrnes has a Great Plains Contract and is to 

 be congratulated on the fine job he is doing. 

 Supervisors of Area V recently had the plea- 

 sure of touring his place. Incidentally, he is 

 a believer in the take half, leave half of the 

 grass on his ranges and they show it. 



(Continued from Page 1, Your Assoc. 

 President Sez) 



The Guide Books printed by NACD can be of 

 great help in arranging the program, with 

 various jobs assigned to individual super- 

 visors. Then every super-'isor has his 

 work and he knows to whom he can look 

 for various phases of the program. This 

 can work and it will shorten the length 

 of the meetings of the Boards and facilitate 

 District work. The value of organization 

 is sometimes amazing. 



DIRECTORY OF MONTANA SUPERVISORS 

 AVAILABLE 



A directory listing all the supervisors in the 

 59 Soil and Water Conservation Districts in 

 Montana is available form the Montana Soil 

 Conservation Committee office at the School 

 of Mines in Butte. If you have not received 

 a copy and desire one, send us your request. 



GRASS ROOTS SURVEY COMPLETED BY 

 TREASURE AND WD3AUX DISTRICTS. 



Treasure and Wibaux SWCD's have completed 

 and mailed in their NACD Public Lands Grass 

 Roots Survey. Many districts are struggling 

 with it. It is particularly important that 

 Public Lands agencies get the form early 

 so they can be working on them. 



Arnold Bolle New Dean of Forextry at MSU 



Congratulations to Arnold Bolle who has been 

 appointed Dean of Montana State University 

 School of Forestry. Arnold at one time was 

 employed by Soil Conservation Service before 

 taking a teaching assignment at MSU. He is 

 presently President of Montana Conservation 

 Council and Montana Woodland Council. Dean 

 Bolle replaces Ross Williams who has re- 

 tired. 



Persons building Irrigation Storage Dams 

 above Canyon Ferry must obtain Bureau of 

 Reclamation approval. 



Inquiry has been made relative to building 

 of dams above Canyon Ferry. Inasmuch as 

 the Bureau of Reclamation claims unappro- 

 priated rights as of the time of the begin- 

 ning of operation of Canyon Ferry dam, 

 clearance must be made with them on any 

 projects being developed above Canyon 

 Ferry. Four private and two watershed 

 projects have since been approved, but 

 the parties concerned have to pay 14.3 $ 

 per acre for the water for forty years, 

 and 5£ maintenance, and abide by the 

 160 acre limitation. 



STATISTICALLY ON THt BALL 



One hundred men and two women cooks were employed 

 at a lumber camp. The owner, a stickler for business-like 

 procedures, penned a memo to his foreman: "Make your 

 reports brief and snappy. Don't waste words. Give precise 

 figures." 



The foreman's next monthly report read: "Last month 

 2$ of the men married 100% of the women employees." 



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