JAYCEES SPONSOR FARM CONTEST: 



In an effort to encourage better farm manage- 

 ment, a contest is being sponsored by the Dillon 

 Jaycees, according to Earl Love, Jaycee Agri- 

 cultural Affairs Chairman. 



The Contest is open to all senior Vo-ag students 

 in Beaverhead County. 



Each contestant will work out a detailed farm 

 management plan for the development and opera- 

 tion of a typical farm unit under the East Bench 

 Project. 



Contestants will be furnished basic information 

 explaining acreage, soils, water supply, topsoil, 

 and other related data. 



Main judging points will be to properly manage and 

 maintain the soil and water resources, to establish 

 the unit on a paying basis and to plan a sound type 

 of enterprise. 



The prize-winning plan will be entered in the state- 

 wide Farm Planning contest, which is being spon- 

 sored by the state Jaycess organization. 



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First Saleaman: "Say, Jim, I had a 

 narvoloua day; made lota of friends 

 for the corpanj." 



Second Salesman: "Ife, too. I didn't 

 sell anything either." 



WHO'S in the Goodyear Contest: 



The following districts are to be congratulated for 

 entering the 1962-63 Goodyear Contest: 



Big Horn 

 Box Elder 

 Broadwater 

 Garfield 

 McCone 



Mile High 

 Reserve 

 Sweet Grass 

 Wibaux 

 Phillips 



There is still time to enter. Just drop a card to 

 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. , Goodyear Conser- 

 vation Contest, Akron, Ohio. This is one way of 

 getting a certificate to present to your outstanding 

 Conservation Farmer. Do it now'. 



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Policeman to driver going the 

 wrong way down a one way street : 



"Hey, where do you think 

 you're going?" 



Driver: "I don't know, but I 

 must be late — everybody is com- 

 ing back." 



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NEW SUPERVISORS 



Following are the names of some of the newly 

 elected Supervisors in Montana: 



Yugo Nayematsu and St. Clair Ottun of Hardin ■■ 



replace Sam Denny, Garry Owen and Emund 

 Kelly, Crow Agency. Dean Nyhus, Scobey re- 

 placed Morris Billehus, Flaxville; Don Weeding 

 Jordan replaces Cecil Weeding; Jordan; Wm. 

 Ohrmann, Drummond, replaces R. H. Peterson, 

 Hall; Jack Halverson, Big Timber replaces Bjarne 

 Bjarndahl, Big Timber; Leslie Arensmeyer, Chot- 

 eau replaces Robert Lee, Fairfield; Robert Reiquam 

 Fairfield replaces James Crawford, Choteau; 

 George Rankin, Ferdig, replaces Joe Gottfried 

 Sweet Grass; Wm. Korst, Sunburst replaces Gilbert 

 Ehli, Sweet Grass; Robert J, Bernhardt, Billings 

 replaces Ishamel Yost, Billings; Everett Snortland 

 Conrad, replaces H. J. Kellogg, Conrad; Carl 

 Zinnie, Delphia replaces Elmer Eklund, Barber 

 and Tom Keller Ryegate replaces J. M. Robinson, 

 Musselshell. 



STATE GREAT PLAINS COMMITTEE MEETS: 



Members of USDA agencies at the state level and 

 State Soil Conservation agencies met in Bozeman 

 recently to review provisions of the Great Plains 

 Program and to determine policy. 



Of particular concern were: m 



1) We have relatively few applications for Great 

 Plains contracts at this time and it does not look 

 like we will be able to spend funds alloted. An 

 educational program is needed to take further ad- 

 vantage of this program. Supervisors are advised 

 to include this in their educational program and 

 engage Extension Service to assist. 



(2) Deferred grazing which was recommended for 

 cost -sharing by the committee was discussed and 

 the Committee was advised that it was not approved 

 nationally because it is not considered as a physical 

 installation of a conservation measure. Other 

 cost-sharing practices were reviewed. The 

 concensus was that cost-sharing should be the 

 same for both the ACP and Great Plains Pro- 

 gram. 



3) Considerable concern was voiced over the 

 many demands at SCS work units to give techni- 

 cal assistance in the many programs. Average 

 cost lists which are revised each year was brought 

 up as an example of probably being inefficient 

 and taking too much technical time. 



Employment of lower salaried clerks to handle <^ 

 necessary paper work was suggested. In this 

 matter SCS has depended on local districts to 

 provide some clerical help. This might be a 

 reality now that districts can raise some funds 

 at the county level. 



