The 260 acres of birdsfoot trefoil and orchardgrass pasture on the farm of Pearl Spilman and his son, Dean, have made possible a gradual increase in production of hogs, beef, cattle and sheep.
Verle Arnold, work unit conservationist for the Davis
County Soil Conservation District, spoke to the Bloomfield Rotary Club about the progress on the Wyacondah and Carter Creek watersheds.
A bullding, located at the corner of Locust and Dodge Streets in Bloomfield, will house the ASCS, the S01l Conservation Service, the Farmers Home Administration, and the Extension Service
Encompassing 24,480 acres in Iowa, the 18-mile-long Carter Creek watershed area starts near Moulton in Appanoose County and enters Missouri south of Bloomfield. The watershed averages 2.5 miles wide.
Mr and Mrs Harold Baughman, Mr. and Mrs Sam Botts
Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Iles Heady will leave Friday for
New Odeans, La, where they will attend the annual meetmg of the National Association of Soil Consenvation Distnct Commissioners.
Two articles discuss an upcoming air tour. Sixty-two passengers were flown over their farms to get a better over-all picture of conservation work being done.
Some were surprised at the amount of water visible from the air. There are about 2,000…
