Contour tillage, terraces, and grassed waterways have proved highly valuable in checking erosion and keeping the maximum amount of moisture in the soil where it can be utilized by growing crops to increase production. This booklet gives specific…
This is the Twelfth Annual Report of the Mills County Soil Conservation District for 1952. Mills County farmland experienced heavy flooding from the Missouri River that year. Damage surveys were done and flood restoration practices were put into…
This annual highlights the activities and accomplishments during 1947 of the Mills County Soil Conservation District.,
This was a year of disastrous floods followed by prolonged drought. June brought three torrential rains in
an eighteen day…
This Tenth Annual Report reviews the progress of the last ten years in the prevention of soil losses for the district. There have been definite changes for the better made by many of the operators and there is an ever increasing awareness on…
Planned conservation accomplishments this year were not as great as had been expected for a number of reasons namely the dry weather during the fall terrace
building season, the necessity of keeping some personnel on the job of finishing the…
This report summarizes a survey taken of farmers cooperating with the Soil Conservation Service who were interviewed for their impressions of the program. 55 percent stated that sheet erosion had been greatly reduced or stopped, while almost 70…
This booklet is a brief history of soil erosion on farmland in the United States and how this serious problem was addressed. In 1933 a government agency, known as the Soil Erosion Service, was organized under the Department of the Interior, and…
This eleventh annual report highlights the successes of the past year as well as current conservation problems that need to be solved and how they are being addressed..
