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 …
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…
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…
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…
This eleventh annual report highlights the successes of the past year as well as current conservation problems that need to be solved and how they are being addressed..
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…
This report summarizes a survey taken of farmers cooperating with the Soil Conservation Service who were interviewed for their impressions of the program. 55 percent stated that sheet erosion had been greatly reduced or stopped, while almost 70…
