Soil Conservation Award Winners
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Soil Conservation Award Winners, Annual meeting in February 1962.
Winners L to R: Hans Sothman, Otto Schwartz, and Alfred Hogan.
Graham Studio, Atlantic, Iowa
State Library of Iowa
February 2, 1962
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Terracing on Richard Malone's Farm
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Terracing on Richard Malone's Cass County Farm
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State Library of Iowa
1975
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Aerial Photo of Fields in Atlantic, Iowa
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Aerial photo of fields in Atlantic, Iowa, Region V, Section 85, Iowa 1b.
News-Telegraph
State Library of Iowa
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Recognition of the American Steel and Wire Fence Company
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A group gathers to recognize the American Steel and Wire Fence Company services brochure held by a furrow queen of Cass County, 1956.
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State Library of Iowa
1956
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Cass County Field and Pond
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Cass County Field and Pond
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Parallel Terracing
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Photo of a completed example of parallel terracing.
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State Library of Iowa
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Group of Cass County Conservation Omaha World Herald Certificate Winners
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Cass County Soil and Water Conservation Commissioners were awarded $500.00 for the Omaha World Herald Merit Award for their soil conservation program. The event was held at the Methodist Church on November 13, 1952 where operators of 3 farms in Cass County were honored.
The farmers honored were Lowell Hall of Griswold, Ed Amdor of Massena, and Tom and Frank Eblen of Cumberland. A bronze plaque was also awarded to the district and certificates of merit went to the farm operators whose land use and conservation practices earned the winning awards for the District.
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State Library of Iowa
November 13, 1952
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Cass County Soil and Water Conservation Commissioners receive an Omaha Wold Herald Award
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Cass County Soil and Water Conservation Commissioners were awarded $500.00 for the Omaha World Herald Merit Award for their soil conservation program. The event was held at the Methodist Church on November 13, 1952 where operators of 3 farms in Cass County were honored.
The farmers honored were Lowell Hall of Griswold, Ed Amdor of Massena, and Tom and Frank Eblen of Cumberland. A bronze plaque was also awarded to the district and certificates of merit went to the farm operators whose land use and conservation practices earned the winning awards for the District.
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State Library of Iowa
November 13, 1952
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Max Kern's Home During the Turkey Creek Flood
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Max Kern's home in south Anita, Iowa during the Turkey Creek Flood.
Graham Studio, Atlantic, Iowa
State Library of Iowa
May 29, 1957
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Construction of a Grass Waterway
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Stages of construction of a Grass Waterway on Maurice Odem's Farm. It was prepared with the farm tractor dozer and plow.
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September 9-10, 1947
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