MORE DISTRICT DOINGS 



State Examiner - States in reply to a question "Can 

 County Commissioners limit increases in soil and 

 water conservation district budgets appropriations 

 to 5% each fiscal year?" After having reviewed 

 Section 76-201 through 219, RCM 19117, there is 

 nothing stated or implied therein which could lead 

 us to believe that a board of County Commissioners 

 is empowered with such authority. 



Cities and Towns - To vote on a referendum in 

 conjunction with the special election June 24 for 

 addition to their respective Soil and Water Conser- 

 vation Districts are Havre, Hingham, Harlem, 

 Glasgow, Circle, Winnett. 



Dean Hanson, George Lackman 

 Attend Secretary Hardin 

 "Listening Conference" 



Dean Hanson, Gildford, Chairman of Montana 

 State Soil Conservation Committee, and George 

 Lackman, Commissioner of Agriculture and mem- 

 b^of SSCC were among scheduled speakers repre- 

 st^Pig Montana who spoke at Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture Clifford Hardin's Listening Conference in 

 Pullman, Washington. The- Secretary asked for help 

 in improving income and the Natural Resources of 

 the nation. Dean Hanson told the Secretary that we 

 need higher priorities assigned to resource affairs 

 or we will be unable to protect the land and water 

 resources that protect our economy . 



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GREAT PLAINS PROGRAM SOLVES CONSERVATION 



PROBLEMS 



BY Oscar Hippe, Chairman, Great Plains 



Committee 



Farmers and ranchers throughout the Great 

 Plains Area are finding in the Great Plains Program 

 a way in which they can solve their conservation 

 problems and make yields and income more depend- 

 able. 



One of the primary things a Great Plains 

 farmer or rancher must deal with is drought - he 

 knows there is nothing he can do to prevent droughts 

 from occuring, but he also knows that if he properly 

 manages and uses his rangelands, by use of livestock 

 watering facilities, good cross fencing, and proper 

 range use, he can withstand several years of dry 

 weather. He knows that by diverting some of the 

 poorer croplands to permanent hayland and pasture 

 he's going to realize a greater profit from the feed 

 and forage produced. He knows that by developing 

 a waterspreading system, or leveling a field for 

 irrigation, he will have a reliable source of feed for 

 his livestock. He also knows that by using water 

 conservation practices like contour stripcropping, 

 field shelterbelts, and grass waterways that more 

 water is going to be available for growing crops in 

 these drier years. 



He knows all these things because he took time to 

 find out through the Great Plains Program that 

 answers were available, technical help was avail- 

 able, cost sharing was available, and he made use 

 of these basic ingredients to stabilize his unit and 

 minimize the dreaded effects of those poorer years. 



