Erosion on Joe M. Johnston's farm 10 miles NW of Knoxville in Marion County, Iowa. Every other row of corn washed out of this 40-acre field. Worked and planted up and down hill 30 to 40 tons of soil loss per acre.
Bill Young, son-in-law of Ernest Harms approaching a bromegrass waterway with a tractor. The waterway is used as a turnstrip in cultivating corn, in Underwood, Iowa.
B&W photo of a water filled waterway on farmland. Handwritten note: "6 Newly Filled & Seeded Waterway on/ J&R. Foster Farm tenanted by/ Jr. Coon. Rains started just as the seeding was completed. 10/6/59"