In recent years the Soil Conservation Service in their work with Soil and Water Con- 

 servation Districts, have been giving much more attention to cost and return relation- 

 ships as they plan conservation programs with individual farmers and ranchers. At 

 the present time the Soil Conservation Service technicians and the Extension Range 

 Specialists and local County Agents are conducting studies in several counties in 

 Montana to try to determine probably costs and returns on range practices. Similar 

 studies have been made with other conservation practices. 



The business man on main street or the factory worker in Detroit should be just as 

 interested in seeing that conservation practices are carried out on the land as the 

 landowner. All these people are interested in having available a plentiful supply of 

 food at a reasonable cost. This can only be assured by maintaining our soil and water 

 resources in a productive state and utilizing the latest developments of technology and 

 operating the farms in a highly efficient manner. 



DON J. LUEBBE 

 Production & Conservation 

 Agricultural Program Leader 

 Extension Service 



Don has recently returned from a year's 

 leave of absence to go to school. Super- 

 visors should call on him thru their 

 Coimty Agent for assistance in Conser- 

 vation Educational programs. Conser- 

 vation Specialists for which he is leader 

 include N. A. Jacobsen, Livestock; Dick 

 Marks, Forestry; Orville McCarver, 

 Horticulturist; Earl Peace, Dairy & 

 Swine; Eugene Quenemoen, Economist; 

 Art Shaw, Agrmiomist; Charles M. 

 Smith, Soils; Eldon H. Smith, Wild- 

 life; Leslie W. Sonder, Weed Control; 

 S. J. Tietema, Economist M. M. 

 Afansiev, Plant Pathologist; Ja.nes 

 Drummond, Sheep; J. J. Pepper, En- 

 tomologist; Don Ryerson, Range 

 Specialist. 



ASCS Committeemen, FHA Committeemen, and 

 any others are invited to partake of this leader- 

 ship training and also find out how district pro- 

 grams are put together. 



CONSERVATION COUNCIL SAYS THANKS 



Nineteen SWCDs responded to the MASWCD 

 recommendation that courtesy memberships 

 in the Montana Conservation Council be pre- 

 sented to local cooper ators, business and pro- 

 fessional people with whom SWCDs work. The 

 following districts have sent checks since Janu- 

 ary 1962: 



Fergus County 



Treasure 



McCone 



Big Horn 



Roosevelt 



Phillips 



Lewis & Clark 



Beaverhead 



Glacier 



Sweetgrass 



Daniels Coimty 



Stillwater 



Broadwater 



Liberty 



Carbon 



Mineral 



Granite 



Garfield 



Reserve 



I 



Arnold BoUe, President of the Montana Con- 

 servation Council says "thanks" to the cooper- 

 ating SWCDs. He says the coimcil board members 

 appreciate MASWCD support of Council programs. 



SUPERVISOR LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS 



Cold weather hampered workshops held in Drum- 

 mond and Missoula the forepart of January. 

 Workshops in Helena and Bozeman were held in 

 below zero weather. Remaining workshop sched- 

 ules are: 



February 12 - Toole and Liberty at Shelby 

 February 13 - Hill, Big Sandy, Chouteau at 

 Big Sandy 

 February 14 - Judith Basin and Fergus at Lewis - 

 town 

 February 19 - McCone, Richland Garfield at 



Circle 

 February 21 - Dawson, Wibaux, Prairie County 



Grazing District at Glendive 

 February 28 - Yellowstone, Big Horn at 



Billings i 



March 1 - Stillwater and Carbon at Bridger ' 

 March 5 - Roosevelt and Valley at Glasgow. 



