Madison District supervisors., anticipating that logging operations may soon begin on 

 private timber lands ^ are urging owners of marketable timber to become acquainted vri. th 

 various harvesting and management phases so that they may most intelligently market 

 their products « this warning is timely and applies to all timber owners. 



Treasure District has started a project to produce EtLrdsfoot Trefoil seed. It is still 

 too early to predict the outcome but should it prove successful it may be a valuable 

 enterprise for district cooperators as well as surrounding districtso 



Little B eaver District supervisors says "Education and information is a most important 

 phase of the District progranio Effective conservation application and understanding by 

 the people of the area cannot be accompolished imtil everyone understands the need for, 

 the objectives of <, and the ways m which a soil conservation district operates and the 

 goals they intend to reach". 



Only six (6) districts entered the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company ^s Soil Conservation 

 Awards Program last year. All districts should have material on the program that ends 

 April 30, 1962. If any district does not have detailed information write the above 

 company at Akron I61, Ohioy and ask to have your district enrolled. Some district will 

 be awarded a week's vacation to Goodyear Farms, Litchfield, Arizona, for one of it-5 

 supervisors and the outstanding conservation farmer in the district next December. 



Richland County District moved over three-quarters of a million cubic yards of earth 

 in completing its I960 soil and water conservation program. This is enough earth to 

 cover Ih city blocks to a depth of thirty feet. 



The Richland District Board in their March Newsletter gave the following definition of 

 a pessimists "A man who doubts what he sees, sees what he doubts, always laughs first- 

 can never laugh last". Judging from the conservation accompolishments in the distract 

 there ar^ np pessimists in ftLchland '^ounty. 



The Roosevelt County District developed I3 water spreading systems in I960. Ihese pro- 

 vide flood waters for 1,187 acres. The District also assisted cooperators in planting 

 155,000 trees. 



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