Conservation Aide Joins County Soil Office Career Path
JOAN ISTAS profiles a Kansas native known as Human, a 20 year old who joined the Franklin County Soil Conservation Office as a conservation aide on Dec 5 1976 and will become a soils technician in Aug 1977 after a year of training. Born in Wichita and raised in Eureka Wichita and Topeka, he previously served in the Army in Germany Switzerland Austria Italy and France before taking an outdoors oriented role with the Soil Conservation Service in Burlington. He enjoys outdoor work, hunting and fishing, photography, and plans to continue terraces waterways and pond design work in Ottawa residence at 727 Mulberry.
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Houston
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June Jones
Temple
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Air Force
Ottawa
Mulberry
Area Extension Agronomist Talks Irrigation Costs and Yields
Gary Kilgore addressed area farmers on irrigation in the Courts building basement. He stressed water rights, fees, and priority rules for non irrigation uses, and cited average yield gains from irrigation for corn, sorghum, soybeans, and alfalfa. He outlined costs, required water, system types, power needs, and urged gypsum blocks to time irrigation, with initial costs around 150 to 400 dollars per acre.
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Gary Kilgore
Courts
Kilgore
Bozworth
Conservation progress in Kansas soil and water efforts
Conservation Facts Kansas reports fiscal year 1976 gains with 2,620 new cooperators taking total to 95,694. USDA Soil Conservation Service aided 2,182 landowners in creating plans for 881,000 acres. District cooperators implemented measures boosting land use, including 1,182,000 acres under improved agronomic practices and conservation cropping systems.
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