The Mills County Flood Control Committee has called a meeting to petition that the Missouri Valley Flood Control Report be submitted to Congress at once. In recent years, farmers had suffered heavy agricultural losses from floods that had eroded…
A review of the year's work shows a few innovations in running a district have been brought about. The pictorial nature of this report is a direct result of the most outstanding of these innovations; namely, the taking of aerial photographs by Ray W…
If a tenant is going to be aggressive
in soil conservation work on a rented farm,
he must have a guarantee from the landlord
that he will receive fair compensation for
unused· value in case he has to leave the
farm before fully realizing his…
This report is an account of the National Plow Terrace Building Contest held on September 10 and 11, 1946 at the Jay Wright Farm in Mills County, Iowa. It recounts the organization required, registration process, the activities taking place, and the …
The purpose of this outline is to help Mills County, Iowa students in the fourth through eighth grades have a better understanding of the problems of conservation in general, and in particular, the resources of Mills County.
Highlights of this annual report include the formation of the Mule Creek Watershed Association at a meeting on October 6, 1949 which was organized to formulate a plan to control floods in the river valleys. An aerial photography program resulted in …
This booklet is a history and explanation of the Mule Creek watershed program in Mills County, Iowa that was developed in 1949 for the purpose of controlling erosion and flooding on farmland using a watershed protection program.
This bulletin is a compilation of the best information available at the time on terrace construction and its coordination with other recommended soil conservation practices. It includes the history of terracing as well as how to implement a terracing…
