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be held in Goldendale. At this steps will be outlined for build- ~. long tim,~ county program. M. Turner, of Pullman, assist- (lirector of the state agriculture olTk~e, will be on hand to the plan. Four county corn- will he selected at the meet- They will represent community home building; home interest rural life; plant and animal in- and land use. WHEAT .... t "Red ~te goft White 17 ............ ~ .51 18 ............ 53 .51 [ i 19 ............ 52 .50 21 ............ 51 .49 ~.~ ............ 52 .50 With Uncle Sam furnishing every- thing but g~sollne, wire and cement, ! Klickitat Valley fi~rmera ~tre ~ow re- ! calving scientific treatment for their i in,dividual a0dl erosion ills. Uncle Sam in this case is (~amp Gotdendale's Soil Conservatlen corn-I p~ny ntmffoer 945. The so41 erosion: work is done with Civilian Conserva- tion (k)rps l~bor, and United Statesi department of agriculture equipment. The engineering and planning isI added by graduate engineers .and l o.gron(mlistls ~hired by the government i to ai,d far~lers through scientific soil consexvatton met,hods. Fill Up Gullies l~rt of a n~tionwlde project to aid and educate f(~rmers in soil eonserva- t~o,n a~ad erosion control work, the Klickitat Valley program is being cttrried out IJhrough individual con- tracb.~ between local farmcq*s and ~he ing. The divez~lo~n ditches, approxi- / ~rs can (,petite their machinery. , farmer no longer has the ineonveni- Camp Gohiendale engineers wotking mutely four feet wide and dug to pe~r-, Gully control dams ~re built ~f ence of f,3rming around what former- under Aldelt Copeblad, camp di.rector, i mtt easy crossing with farm nm*:htn- rock laid by hand and anchored by ly were dangepous ditetles. Grass ie In their soil er~(:~sion control work lery, run e.long the side of the slope strong hog wire netting. 'Phe top of see(led along tile edges of the gully tl~e Camp Goldendale engineers use stetrting on tbe Columbia mountain the dam is built ~bout two f~et be-land s(~n sod formation stops any i native materials ,almost entirely. On at a low gradient,low the field' level and the ditch be- i further wasidng. This type of gu ly the M. O. I~yton ranch four miles;i At regular interva.ls, dopen,ding up- i ditches 10 ft'~t deep and as far across ! control ~rrk not only performs a south of Golden,dale a large gully i on the slope, identical diversion i to shallow swales, over which farm- ! service to the farmer in remedying control d,am some 15 feet wide andiditches axe dug acrcos the field, each t vals~cross the gully the conservatic~nla serious soil wash but i~h serves an about 10 feet !high w~s constructedIparallel to Vhe one above. Theory, !hind the dam filled in even with it~ eveI~ me.re valuable pin,pose in ~5s- for an actual cash outlay to the own- ~b~cked by ~ctual practice, proves that I service ha~ been able to e.lmnge ing the water table of l~ts land by er of about $35. This expenditure i Vi~ese diversion ~lit(~hes will top all 'j lop. The s~des of the ,d,itoh are then checking run-off that occurs threug~h x~as entirely for cement, l:~bor, rockI future erosion es wail as remedy igraded in. A series of thee rock deep lmrlzontat ditches. much of ~he er0~+ion troubles already (l,ares. each one costing the farmer~ Ma~y Klickitat Valley ~rmers imaterials, equipment, and engineer-i present, less Lh~n $12, are built along the have already sighted contracts for ing were grmis from the government. I Use Native Materials gully at intervals of from 75 to 150 ~, complete erosion control work on Stop Erosion I Anot~her feature of the sell ere- fe~t. their farms. Some of the farms h~ve On the Andrew Isa,+cson farm near islen control being carried on in th~ Build Rock I)ams alrex~dy been serviced, ~ork is ~o~ W,].rwtck, George Ross, Camp engi-!Klickitat Valley by COC labor and t ractice has shown that in l~u undt~r w,~y on ()ther,~ and many more neer, has recently constructed a corn-government engineers is gully con-than two years the gully c~n be fllle.d are completing d(~t;~ils with gov~n~- plete system ;0~f diversion ditches to lta-ol work. Through a aeries of rock and further e~rosion ~halted. Not only ment engim~ers for i~dividual censer- protect l~a(~cson's land from wash-idems constructed at regular inter- is considerable soil saved hut the vatio~ prog,ams. w dan superintendent, will be in Goldendale this Saturday for a meeting ~qth L. W T(~rnahan, and members of the county AAA com- mittee. ON MAIN STREET ....