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0245. Harlan, Iowa

1948 National Plow Terrace Site, Harlan, Iowa. Shelby County.

Tags: Farmland, Mills County, Soil and Water Conservation

0228a. Warren Gregory Farm

General view of the Warren Gregory farm. This farm has soil conserving rotation, fourteen miles of terraces and field boundaries on contour.

Tags: Farmland, Mills County, Soil and Water Conservation

0215a. Emmett Gipe Farm

Modernistic fields. Terraces and contour field diversions create this design on the Emmett Gipe farm.

Tags: Farmland, Mills County, Soil and Water Conservation

0227b. Kilpatrick Farm

View of Nishnabotna River at Kilpatrick farm. Light areas are sand deposits left by floods of 1947.

Tags: Farmland, Mills County, Soil and Water Conservation

0246. Mills County Farmland

Mills County farm showing contour farming.

Tags: Farmland, Mills County, Soil and Water Conservation

0244. McManigal Farm

View from north of McManigal farm (Brooks) in McManigal-Jurgens Group. Jurgens farm in background. Terraces, earth fill, and contour field diversions are shown.

Tags: Farmland, Mills County, Soil and Water Conservation

0123. National Plow Terrace Building Contest

A crowd gathers in a Mills County farm field for the National Plow Terrace Building Contest.

Tags: Farmland, Mills County, National Plow Terrace Building Contest, Soil and Water Conservation

0209c J.F. Wearin Jr. Farm

J.F. Wearin Jr. farm from the north. Field in right foreground was the location of the Nation's first Plow Terrace Building Contest in September 1942.

Tags: Farmland, Mills County, National Plow Terrace Building Contest, Soil and Water Conservation