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The Sandy (Ore.) Post Thursday, April 4, 1963 (Sec. 2)
Organic Material Needed by Plants
The ideal soil contains a
great deal of organic matter
in various stages of decom­
position. It also contains many
micro - organisms and small
animals, such as earthworms,
that help decompose the organ­
ic matter.
In the process they release
nutrients for use by new plants.
The partially decomposed ma­
terials that make up humus
produce stable granular struc­
ture in the soil. Since organic
matter is constantly being bro­
ken down new supplies must
be added regularly to maintain
life in the soil.
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BULK GARDEN SEED
• BEDDING PLANTS
• BABY CHICKS
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These white face Herefords are feeding on
improved seeding of grass and legumes. The
planting is on Charles Heyer’s place south­
east of Sandy and was made in the spring of
¿y
1959, using akaraa orchard grass and ladine
clover. Heyer cut nine ton of hay per acre
from this planting.
Watershed Approach
Best For Erosion
Farmers have found the
"watershed"
approach
the
practical way to control run­
off water The same principles
apply in suburban area, be­
cause runoff is governed by
watershed
boundaries
and
drainage patterns, not by prop­
erty lines.
What is a watershed? It is
the area from which water
drains to a particular point of
interest. One slope of a roof
is the watershed of the gutter
that catches its runoff. A rill
through a garden may receive
water from a fraction of an
acre; that area is the water­
shed of the rill.
Each larger drainageway has
a successively larger water­
shed embracing the separate
watersheds of all its tributar­
ies. The stream that runs past
your property may have a wat­
ershed of several square miles.
The larger watershed prob­
lems. such as floods in the
valleys and sedimentation of
reservoirs,
usually
can be
dealt with only by cooperative
action of the land holders in
the watershed area.
The more difficult situations
may require major structural
works, such as floodwater re­
tarding
dams,
diversions,
drainage ditches,
sediment
basins, or extensive planting or
mulching of eroding areas.
Sometimes these measures
are needed on public land or
need to be larger than individ-
ual land - owners can provide
at their own expense. Then
some kind of public action —
as by city, county, or special
district authorities
is need­
ed.
In watersheds that include
agricultural as well as urban
land, Federal assistance for
flood prevention, erosion con­
trol. and water management
measures may be available
under the Watershed Protec­
tion and Flood Prevention Act.
The local office of the Soil
Conservation Service will give
information abotu small water­
shed projects under this act.
The office is located in the
Telford Building in Boring and
may be reached by calling MO-
hawk 5-6094.
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this generation, to the last,
nor to the next. No single
man or generation can ever
earn the right to use them
wastefully. — Cheyney and
Schantz-Hansen, in "This Is
Our Land."
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