I Watershed - Plains Efforts Lead '5B SCS Work
■ams aimed at the contrasting problems of floods
'ht led the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Soil
ion Service activities during 1958.
iar-end summary of SCS activities showed: The
of small watershed projects for which construction
authorized more than doubled; the Great Plains
tion Program ended its first year with 2.8 million
•oiled in the program for complete conservation
and technical, assistance to soil conservation dis
tinued to increase*
Campaign
School
Drinking
J subsidy and educa
programs worked to
to increase milk con
>n in schools In New
i.ty during the 1957 -
1001 year according
;ors of the Greater
»rk Program of the
' Dairy Council. Dur
school year the pu
over 134,300,000
its of milk, an in
of more than 10,200,-
if - pints over the pre
school year.
. r the School Lunch
\, the United States
lent of AgricuTure
■sed local schools for
•ion of cost of each
'te lunch consisting of
dish, milk and des-
The Department also
ied an average of
cents per half'pmt of
milk served in addition
included in the lunch
other times during the
day.
is provided by dairy
■s m the New York
i.ed resulted in the use
national services and
:ais of the Dairy Coun
-91% of the public ele,-
■y and junior high
and in more than
ards of the Catholic
.wish parochial schools,
addition to the 'service
nutation consultants,
Dairy Council program
requests from the
Is for more than 900,-
tucttional booklets for
iom use It also fum
sixty-five motion pic
seventy exhibits in
’ model cows, and a
-of posters for the
nas and lunchrooms.
New York City a com
lunch is available to
>ils of 85 per cent of
elementary schools
Ik only is served in
of the remaining 15
mt. Milk or complete
are available to the
and girls attending 161
• lumor and senior high*
s Schools which serve
'te lunches usually
additional milk avail
m mid-morning and at
time.
Jout 190 of the 215 Jew
parochial schools serve
5 or a complete lunch, an
fase of 92 in the past
y ® ars In this same
od, there has been anin
*se of more than 100 Ca
hc parochial schools which
te milk available to the
bringing the-total to
F 250.
Wk consumption in New
k-State under the feder
sponsored programs
f 333.830,000 £lfS!
nnn G t Se lf 0i more -than 19,-
800 half-pints over the
s-57 school year.
pmplete 'lunches were
red ln 3,324 schools and
F only in an additional
r, schools.. The latter
lols- .served ' 210,054,214
-pints' -most, of* .which,
£f®t- that/
r. “utnents .to' afe. bbys
-girls as well as the addi
|“i£ Murke t f or loca dairy
tv,! 95 !' 58 sch ° ol year
• the. fourth -year during
: federal funds were
e "^7 ubsidize the
*li^ 00ls the
•ial Milk Program.
R Dec l r a_total of 136
small watershed projects
were authorized to begin
construction or other opera
tions/outlined in their plans;
compared to 60 on Jan. 1.
These local projects are re
ceiving Federal assistance in
installing dams and other im
provements under the Water
shed Protection and Flood
Prevention Act.
Watershed projects are in-
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xtiated and administered by areas of the Great Plains,
local organizations USDA 939 farmers and ranchers
provides technical assistance have developed plans and
assistance, cost sharing, and signed contracts to carry out
credit in accordance with needed land-use adjustments
plans mutually agreed upon and conservation practices to
Average cost of the first offset drought hazards The
130 projects authorized is contracts provide for long
estimated at $1,174,583. Of term cost-sharing under the
this, $657,601 is Federal and Great Plains Conservation
$516,982 non-Federal. The Program..
non-Federal costs include By Nov 1, the Soil Con
such things as land, ease- servation Service had receiv
ments, rights-of-way, admin- ed 3,109 applications in the
istration of contracts, and 318 counties m 10 States ap
water rights. proved_ for this assistance
The Soil Conservation Ser- During fiscal 1958, the soil
vice has approved 398 water- Conservation Service assisted
sheds for planning assistance 40 more soil conservation
out of 1,001 applications-re- districts than m 1957 The
ceived from 46 States, Putr- SCS gave technical assist
to Rico, and Hawaii , ance to 2,791 of the 2,806
In the critical wind-erosion districts organized m the
basic telephone service*
This means that if you are build-
ing a new house or moving into
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Serving Pennsylvania’s living area!
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an existing one, you can have those extra
telephones you’ve always wanted (and needed)
at an important saving.
As your Commonwealth Telephone Company
•continues its sound growth, other service
improvements will be possible and will be
made available to Commonwealth’s 56,000
subscribers.
United States and its terri
tories.
These districts include 89
percent of the agricultural
land and 94 percent of the
farms and ranches m the
country.
During the year the dis
tricts added 116,303 new
cooperators, bringing the to
tal to 1,794,411 farmers and
ranchers operating 539,561,-
777 acres Service technic
ians helped 1,180,583 cooper
ators apply conservation
practices. They also helped
them prepare 91,335 new bas
ic conservation plans and
revise 13,270 old plans.
Preachers may not be per
fect but they are working to
ward perfection and we do
not know of a better pursuit
in life
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