Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1958-08-07
By WILBUR o. SHISLER
US. Soil COnServatiOniSt

The Conservation Needs Com
mittee held its first meeting last
week. We were enthused with
participation by all the commit
tee members. Not a single per-
son who was invited to serve on
this committee refused to take
part. This was most heart warm
ing and a good indication of
the Importance that many al
truiStic people place on conser-
walton. This meeting was the
first of a series Of four meetings
which will continue through the
near future. At the close of this
study it is hoped that we will
know roughly the acreage of
land in Geauga County that
needs various kinds of treat
ment for soil Improvement and
protection. The needs will also
be projected through 1875.
The first meeting was spent
in calculating the amount of
acreage in Geauga County that
is taken for non-agricultural
usage. We also tried to project.
these figures through 1875 to ar
rive at the amount of agricultur-
al land available in 1875. Similar
consideration will be given to
water conservation.
We are grateful to James Ben
nett and Lois Ann Dixon from
our area office for their help in
making this study. Jim has
helped conduct similar studies
in Portage and Trumbull coun-
ties. Lois Ann has taken the
notes and will summarize the
data. This Conservation Needs
Study certainly is important
nationwide and we enjoy doing
it. However, it is time consum-
ing and keeps us from working
full time with you land owners
and operators.
This past week we worked
with Don Meyer in marking out
several conservation measures
on the land. A diversion was
marked out and plowed over
once on the farm of Foster
Frost. We also planned and
Staked a tile main for him. An
other diversion was Staked for
George Clemens on May Road
in Auburn. Frank Czoka will
build this diversion with his
small bulldoZer and pan. We be-
gan stalking still another diver
sion on the Beales farm but will
have to finish it some other day
because a hard shower chased
us back to the office.
Weather permitting, the wat
erway and open bitches on the
Beales farm will be done soon.
John Henke, who lives on Route
6, Chardon, now has the district
soil mover to build several wat
erwayS on his farm.
Many Of you part time farm
ers work roughly the same
hours as we do; this has made
it difficult for us to contact you
as often as we would like. If
you know when you will be
taking your vacation you might
make an appointment for that
time If you would like to see us.
Making some contacts with us
well in advance may make the
difference between getting your
planned conservation practices
done and in not getting them
done. If there is just a chance
that you can get them done
this year, see us now rather
than wait.
From present indications we
will not have a large backlog
of requests for farm conServa-
ton plans by the time next
spring rolls around. If you are
interested, it would be we'll to
make formal application in the
near future so that the neceS-
sary soil survey can be made
and photographs provided by
that time.
Charles March, Route 422 in
Parkman township, is we'll plea
sed with the waterway he con-
structed last fall, in fact he
plans on completing several
more this summer.
The waterway was construct
ed to improve on an area that
receives the run-off from the
sleeper slopes above. This rapid
run-off also makes it necessary
to consider the erosion hazard
in such waterway. Charlie
built the flat bottom waterway