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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thundery, rtbruary 1. 1968 CDDg Annual Meeting Prgrasn Plannei (See Story Page 1, Sec. 1) TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HEPPNER SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT Tuesday, February 6, 1968 7:30 P.M., Lexington Grange Hall Film on "Irrigation" shown by UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD BUSINESS MEETING Minutes of 1967 Annual meeting Election of three Supervisors Financial Report Annual Report INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS PANEL BY Morrow County Port Commission REFRESHMENTS Compliments of Heppner Soil and Water Conservation District DISTRICT ACTIVITIES FOR YEAR 1967 Held nine regular monthly meetings one special meeting. Cooperators invited. Meetings held the first Tuesday of each month at Soil Conservation Service Office. One annual meeting held on regular meeting date in Feb- rUaiAnnual report circulated through local paper. Observe Soil Stewardship week "34 of our land . Conservation Tour Adult tour with lunch at Conservation Man of Year's farm, Louis and Betty Carlson. Fifth grade school tour Lunch at lone High School. .,i Rj Co-sponsored Application for Columbia-Blue Mountain Re source Conservation and Development Project with supervisor ,wv.v.4t.m Film made of Conservation in Morrow County. tf.1.1 Pnnnm.nllnn tnliro ftT nttIHl PmimS. District agrees to assist in management of two large land tracts Navy Bombing Kange ana me ducihr District pushing for County wide soil survey and underground WUt Continued the push for a study made of Rhea Creek Small Watershed Project. , , . . School sixth grade Forestry-Soils Tour nine schools from four counties attending. . Sponsored a soils workshop and soil judging contest. Sponsored the Soil and Water Conservation Speech Contest. Co-sponsored Farm-City Week and annual banquet. Recognition and award to Morrow County Conservation Man tiOwnCand rent equipment to district cooperators. 100 cooper ators used equipment and stakes. Contested in the Goodyear award program. ANNUAL CONSERVATION REPORT Hennner District has 342 cooperators which includes 994,518 acres. 13 new COOporaiOrs SlH'lcll uisuiti ciiL-ciuum aucvm 24 932 acres. 11 basic conservation plans were written on 17,358 acres. 26,305 acres soil surveyed bring the total surveyed to 938,787 acres. nr.i on nnroa survpvprt for contour striD cropping during the year. Total acres of wind and contour strip cropping amounts to 24,220 acres. , 133 660 linear feet of diversion ditches (25M miles) making a total of 234 miles of diversions in the district. 129 acres of land leveling bring the total to 4.985 acres leveled to 4949 linear feet of irrigation ditch. 125 irrigation structures and 4 large Irrigation turnout dams. Channel change and improvement on 38,458 linear feet. 3 water flumes. 63 stock ponds and erosion control dams, one irrigation pond and development of 4 springs. , 500 feet of open drains, 215 linear feet of tile drains and 1284 linear feet of irrigation main line with four new irrigation systems. 50G0 acres of stubble mulch fallow for the first time. Assisted 25 farmers with 450 acres of grass and grass-legume seedings. L JJ :'. ;7? ""- -,:f ;. ;:sih vfl&r&K'.rt - . i Vi r "nil i 'if . HEPPNER SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT January 1. 1968 a Rank halnnee January 3. 1967 Received from cooperators on account Over payments refunded Net Income ..$7f8.7() .. 73.73 $1,709.59 from cooperators oHi! SELECTION of Louis Carlson of lone as Oregon's Conservation Man of the Year was one I the highlights of the year for the Heppner sou ana waier lonservauon aimti. "cr" a coopercrtor in the district since 1958. He was announced as county Conservation Man at the spring meeting of the Morrow County Wheat Growers League in April and was selected State Conservation Man at the Oregon Wheat League convention In Portland in December. Mr. ana Mrs. Carlson will be hosts at the annual state conservation tour in June of this year. (G-T Photo). New Concept of Conservation Results in Forming RCSsD District Equipment Offered for Rent By RAYMOND FRENCH The Heppner SWCD has five pieces of equipment for rent to district cooperators. With the good weather of late, some of the spring work can be done with this machinery at present. For instance, now would be a good time to poison gophers. The dlsrict is at present con sidering buying a new grass and alfalfa drill. It is felt by the supervisors, however, that due to increased prices of new equipment and high upkeep costs that the rental on a new drill will have to be substan tially raised. Comments by co operators on this matter will be welcomed by the supervisors. Following Is a schedule of rental rates for district owned equipment: Gopher getter Drill Noble Blade Packer Terracer 35c per acre $5.00 minimum 50c per acre $5.00 minimum 50c per acre $5.00 minimum 50c per acre $5.00 minimum $1.25 per hour $5.00 minimum Land leveling stakes $1.00 per acre Other staking jobs $5.00 per bundle By RAYMOND FRENCH Tha mar 1 Qfi7 saw a flPW COn- cept of conservation develop ment nntHntJ linHpr WDV in SIX soil and water conservation dis tricts in eastern uregon. Known as Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D), it is bas ically the joining 01 me six con servation districts into cooper ative effort for the further de velopment of natural resources in the combined areas. This RC&D project, sponsored by soil and water conservation districts in Morrow, Gilliam, and Umatilla counties, is known as the Columbia-Blue Mountain Dacnnpna Arnn nf Oropon. In cluded are the drainages of Wil low Creek, Umatilla Kiver, wai la Walla River, and the part of Gilliam county which drains in to the John Day River. It con sists of a total land area of 3,596,840 acres (5,620 square miles) or 5.8 of all land in the state of Oregon. The original sponsors are Gilliam, Heppner, Boardman, South Umatilla, and East Uma tilla SWCD's. Support by other organizations such as county courts, port commissions, recre ntinnnl nrtrnnizations. and oth- op rtn-iTnimitv arnltns. is beini? sought. The organization a 1 structure consists ol resource committees composed of mem bers of each sponsoring district, local leaders, and resource agency people. There are six of these ' committees: water, crop land, woodland, rangeland, rec reation and wildlife, and pub licity. Resource committees rep resent the action of the RC&D nmft Thiw Htprminp mainr objectives and both short and long range goals. Some of the problems to be AnncirlarAfl innlllHf f!nllimhia River projects being considered by the Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation on Wil- lr.li, Cpoolf Wnlln Walla. nnH Umatilla Rivers. Small water shed projects will be encourag ed by the RC&D unit. Each SWPn is nt nrpsent sDonsorins one or more of these under Pub lic Law 5fab. Cropland soil losses will be studied along with practices which will sustain rangelands and woodlands on both private and nnhlic riomain. Recreation al developments will also be en couraged. It is hoped by the sponsoring districts that along wish coop eration with other legal entities and individuals that a united furthering of resource conserva front can be presented in the tion and developments within the Columbia Blue Mountain RC&D boundaries. Interest on time deposit i:;: Donations - """" Bank deposits during 1967 Office supplies - Telephone ii nn Dues and memberships i'm Audit report oothn Stakes & flags purchased , Ti Advertising 1 Bonds and Insurance ! Awards and trophies Annual mantfno nml J.J.W Kighth grade tour . - Paid out by checks - .. 778.51 $2,518.10 682.14 Bank balance January 2, 19C8 f Value of equipment -- a-vo 'ninn Total cash and equipment assets as of January 2, 1968 ... . $3,0JO.BO Accounts receivable X'ti Credits - -53 Net receivable accounts - 5 34 TO Following Equipment Available On Rental Basis f SA 1 Gopher getter 35 per acre, M n mum 3.ou Grass drill DU per acre, iviiiimiuii ss-v ew- Noble blade"".'..' 50 per acre, Minimum $5.00 rental Packer 50 per acre, Minimum $o.00 rental Terracer 1-25 per acre, Minimum $o.uu remw EQUIPMENT RENTAL DURING 1967 Gopher getter $ 68 20 Grass drill 88.50 Noble blade 20.00 Packer - 1 Terracer Stake sales used land leveling Stakes sold by bundle $202.95 ..$ 79.50 .. 152.40 Submitted by EDMOND GONTY, Treasurer i v IS" . 4 - 1 LOUIS CARLSON. State Conservation Man. sifts topsoil In a di version ditch on his ranch. The ditch keeps topsoil irom wasn ing away. Carlson has 2760 acres under his management. Among conservation practices employed are use of trashy fallow, diver sion ditches seeded to grass, sod waterways and contour farm ing. In the way I range management, practices include rotation-deferred grazing, wcter developments and fencing. (G-T Photo). Heppner District Lists New Objectives for I968 VnrnnrnP'P continuation of striD-croDPins. stubble mulch fal low, diversion ditches, grass-legume rotations, contour farming and other needed conservation practices. Continue to maintain and operate conservation equipment now owned for use by district cooperators. Bring to the attention of all people the importance of conser vation of our natural resources and its effect on their economics. Continue to encourage and cooperate with Oregon Wheat League in selecting the Conservation Man of the Year. Affiliate with and be represented at the State and National Conservation Associations. Carry out a well-rounded conservation program through par ticipation in the Goodyear Conservation Award Contest. Continue to sponsor activities to better acquaint Youth with observation of our natural resources Conservation speech contest Soil workshop and judging contests send boy to attend conser vation range camp. Encourage observance of Soil Stewardship Week with all Churches in the District. Be represented on all committees of the Columbia-Blue Mount ain Resource Conservation and Development Project. Does Subsoiling Pay? By RALPH RICHARDS Does subsoiling pay? Those of you that make a practice of subsoiling must think so. Other farmers think there is no value in subsoiling and that it is a costly operation. Which is true. The Pendleton Experiment Station found after several years of subsoiling on three dif ferent locations in Umatilla County that there was no in crease in crop yield. The ACP makes payment for subsoiling as a conservation practice. Before approval is giv en on this practice the Soil Con servation Service must deter mine if there is a need for this practice. Checking this fall on requests we found the same thing on every request. The roots of the previous crop was matted in a two inch zone just above a soil compacted layer. In every case after digging through the restrictive layer we found some moisture. How much that moisture would have help ed the growing crop I cannot say, but we know it surely wouldn't have hurt any. This is not a suggestion that everyone should subsoil but I would suggest that everyone do a little digging with a shovel to see if they have a hardpan that will prevent the permea bility of moisture or stop roots from penetrating. This was an exceptional year, but aren't they all? The crop had moisture during the period of root formation and then when the roots had to work for moisture, also for food, the hardpan had dried and harden ed sufficient to prevent roots from penetrating. All soils do not form com pacted pans while other soils are more easily compacted. So again I suggest you do some digging on your own or come in the office and we will study your soils map and go dig if necessary and let you make the decision if subsoiling will bene fit you. THE FOLLOWING ARE HAPPY TO JOIN IN SPONSORING THIS REPORT IN THE INTEREST OF CONSERVATION: Paul Pettyjohn Co. Morrow Co. Grain Growers White's Grading Service Dick Meador Padberg Machinery Co. Heppner Inland Chemical Columbia Basin Electric Co-op Pettyjohn's Farm & Bldg. Supply Gar Aviation First National Bank Lindstrom Brothers IRONWORKS AND SPRAYING SERVICE Cornett Green Feed HEPPNER SOIL and WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT
