Browse Items (1074 total) for Des Moines County Soil and Water Conservation District Historical Collection

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Smiling man at Christmas

Unidentified man enjoys opening a Christmas present while his family watches

Agricultural machinery on display

These pieces of farm machinery are on display inside a building

1976 Men at no-till meeting

A meeting was held in 1976 at the Mediapolis High School for farmers to learn about no-till planting of crops

1978 No-till corn tour with John Wagenbach

John Wagenback is the fifth man from the left in the plaid shirt. These people are on a tour of no-till farming methods.

1978 Group on no-till corn tour

Doug Cling is the young man in the middle

Geode Wonderland Pathfinders display

This Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D)display promoted the Lake Geode Wonderland project in Des Moines County

Joe Beckman, Commissioner

Joseph Beckman served as a Des Moines County Soil Conservation District Commissioner from 1974-1980

Before the development of the first self-governing windmill, settlement of the upland areas of the American West was almost impossible. Windmills were needed to pump underground water to the surface. As soon as their design and manufacture had been…

Unidentified woman reading papers

Unidentified brick building

This unidentified building appears to be deserted

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