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…
The information contained in this booklet show the amount of conservation work which has been accomplished and the present land use within the county. It also projects land usage and the conservation work which is expected to be done by the year…
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 …
This annual newsletter from the Mills County Soil Conservation District in Malvern, Iowa reports on the 1955 activities and financial status of the organization.
Address by Dr. W. McClellan, Chairman, Land Resources Council, Mississippi Valley Association at the National Plow Terrace Building Contest, Glenwood, Iowa - September 11, 1946
Dr. McClellan discusses the importance of soil conservation stating…
The Union County Conservation Board wrote a letter to Rep. Don Avenson in 1986 disagreeing with his comments at the farm bureau state convention of the Iowa Farm Bureau that the "cost - share program isn' t used much anymore".
This is a notice of condemnation of land by the Iowa State Highway Commission. It is addressed to Glen N. McGee of Glenwood, Iowa and Albert Washburn, Chairman of the Mills County Soil Conservation District in Malvern, Iowa
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…
