Soil Saver Notes

Soil Saver Notes

Eight farmers in Rappahannock and Culpeper counties completed drainage projects on (their farm3 recently. Soil Conservation Service technicians working in cooperation with the Culpeper soil conservation district, assisted the farmers in locating the ditch lines and in the design of the ditches.

The Production & Marketing Administration will make a payment of 12-cents per cubic yard of dirt moved from drainage ditches on the farms, not to exceed a maximum of $100 per landowner. All drainage work for which PMA gives financial assistance must meet specifications and receive the approval of the soil Conservation Service technician, before payment can be made.

Two Rappahannock farmers completed drainage work this week: C. R. Wire, recent purchaser of “The Shade,” and R. M. Menefee, both located near Flatwoods.

Mr. Wire is developing “The Shade” as a grass farm. Pasture improvement will consist of developmg various mixtures of grasses and legumes centered around Ladino clover, orchard grass, and Kentucky 31 Fescue. Hayland development—will—include—ali'aifa,

clover, and orchard grass in various mixtures. Proper amounts of limestone and fertilizer will be applied as the program unfolds. Protect Land Our government is founded on the principle that we—ail of us together—have the spirit and the ability to decide for ourselves the actions we want to tak» togetherin our Joint Trittrre*sf^aTid_c‘6himbn welfare. This is what^xwe fight i'orv This is a representative selfgovernment—'the best government and the best society that men and women have ever enjoyed on earth. This is the kind of government and society that offers the greatest advantages in personal liberty and the greatest opportunitiesTor accomplishment. This ics the form, the spirit, and the practice of the Culpeper Soil Conservation District.

Americans have decided they want to protect their land and water resources. But there is no man in Washington who can order ail the people to apply modern soil conservation measures. So the farmers have organized themselves freely and voluntarily, to do the job according to the principle of self-government in counties and communities ail over the country. The medium through which tnis is accomplished is the Soil Conservation District — free, local, representative self-government in the best tradition of America.

The farmers of a soil conservation district decide for themselves what they want to do in

conservation, when they want to 'do it, where' they want to do it, who they want to help them and how they want to do it.

The Soil Conservation District is American self-government. ^The right to continue American selfgovernment is one of the great rights lor which we work and fignt and sacrifice, it is one of the rights Americans have died for in the past, and now, again, are defending with their lives and air their resources.

In the years ahead, soil conservation districts offer America the greatest oppoitunity it has had in modern times to strengthen its ideal of self-government and solve at the same time one of the most fundamental problems—the protection of its vital land and water resources.