CONSERVATION
NOTES
By LEW HANKS
Well, here we go again. There
seems to have been another
breeze last week beginning about
Thanksgiving Day. 1 suppose you
people in the Butte area didn’t
notice it, but we city slickers did.
I’m about ready to trade the wind
for the shadows almost any old
winter. Well, to get back to the
latest breeze, we made a check
to see how real estate moved dur
ing that period. Open fields
moved pretty well. We checked
wind erosion in six open fields
from the Fish Hook Road to Mat
ahuska. Soil losses varied from
about one-eighth of an inch to
over one-hall inch of soil depth.
Maybe half an inch doesn’t sound
like much, but that soil loss is
accumulative. Half an inch this
year, half an inch next year, and
before long you’re right on the
rock pile—in more ways than one.
Do you know how much half an
inch of soil is? It’s about 60 tons
per acre, ten truck loads. That’s
a lot of dirt if you had to pack it
back from the Knik Arm or the
Susitna Flats. That’s where a lot
of it went.
Three men asked me what I
suggested doing about it. There
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look—like celebrating.
BROWN'S SHOP
VALLEY
THEATRE
FRI.-SAT.. DEC. 1-2
Nights 7:15-9:00. Sat. Mat. 2:00
SUN.-MON.. DEC. 3-4
Nights 7:15-9:00. Sun. Mai. 2:00
WED.-THURS., DEC. 6-7
j is no panacrea, no one answer to
wind erosion. The Soil Conserva
j tion Service has fought this prob
! lem for a good many years in the
States. The wind blows there the
I same as here. Here are their rec
ommendations:
Drag in windrows of brush
' across windswept fields and plant
j these brushrows to trees and
j shrubs in the spring. Spacing
! should not be over 330 feet. When
I clearing, leave a windbreak of na
tive trees at least every 660 feet.
Use a sytem of wind strip crop
ping with those strips that are
planted to row crops not over 100
feet in width. Use a crop rotation
that includes grass crops to main
tain a high humus content in the
soil. Use a stubble mulch or
trashy tillage method of working
; land. Don’t fall plow. Fall ma
: nure field strips that are open in
| the .winter.
Following these practices will
| mean working small fields. In
j lots of cases it will mean the use
j of silage rather than oat and pea
J hay or grain, because of the diffi
i culty of field drying hay on pro
tected fields. You can’t figure on
quick Vind drying hay or grain
! and also raising row crops on the
| same field afterward without ero
sion.
If you don’t protect against
wind erosion that rock pile gets
a bit closer to the surface every
| year. Think it over.
Cubs to Contribute
Christmas Toys to
Children's Homes Here
Toys from each of the Cub
Scout dens here will be collected
and made ready for distribution
at the local children’s homes be
fore Christmas, it was announced
this week by members of the
group. Any broken toy that cam
be repaired is to be taken to den
meetings to be worked on so they
will be ready for the Christmas
distribution. The Cub Scout com
mittee said that it is hoping to
have a good supply of toys for
the homes this year.
There will be no monthly meet
ings of the committee during De
cember, according to the an
nouncement. The next monthly
meeting of the Pack 354 has been
advanced one week to December
i 18 at 8 p.m. in the school gym.
A Christmas program is planned j
and all parents are urged to at-,
tend with their children.
At the regular meeting of the
; Pack November 27 at the school
: gym, three Cubs received awards.
1 Cubmaster Allan Mick presented
Wolf badges to the parents of
Stephan Hamilton and Jerry Fogg
| who in turn awarded them to
j their sons for work completed
! during the past year. Colin Mick
was awarded a gold arrow point,
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earned by additional work after,
having received his badge some i
time ago. Dens 1 and 3 presented
short skits pertaining to the j
monthly Cub Scout theme, radio. j
Television seemed to be upper
most in the boy’s minds. Dens 2
and 4 displayed hand craft
worked on this past month.
V. W. MARTIN OUTSIDE
V. W. Martin of Martin’s West
Side garage, has been Outside for
the past few weeks on a business
trip. He flew to the states on his
way to Gordon, Nebraska, to get
additional equipment for his shop
here. He planned to drive back
over the Alaska highway, bring
ing the new equipment here by
truck.
Interior Freight Lines
Clay Prewitt and Cliff Steadman, Owners
Freight Hauling Between Valdez and Palmer
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