Quad-District Conservation Newsletter is a cumulative regional newsletter including informational and educational news regarding Harrison, Crawford, Shelby, East Pottawattamie, and West Pottawattamie County soil and water conservation districts.
General view of a portion of Reuel Harmon farm, picking corn in a terraced and contoured field. Bert Wheeler farm right background, Joe Munsinger farm center background.
Photo taken by Ray W. Jones- Mills County Soil Conservation District.
View of the Mansfield farm from the south. Spots in the corn field at the left foreground are caused by volunteer corn. Alfalfa-brome hay being cut in left background.
Photo by Ray W. Jones - Mills County Soil Conservation District.
View of the Bert Wheeler farm, from south looking north. This complete plan now has sixteen miles of terraces. Modified strip cropping on the Glynn land in background.
Photo taken by Ray W. Jones - Mills County Soil Conservation District.
Field patterns and practices on the Mansfield farm - of the Gipe, Mansfiled, Hathaway Group. The east and west divisions show and the north and south divisions will be established in 1949.
View of the Nishnabotna River, south of the Chas Gipe farm, showing large sand bar thrown in at former bridge location and large quantities of white sand left on land after 1947 floods.
Photo taken by Ray W. Jones - Mills County Soil Conservation…
View from west of home of H.W. Washburn, showing diversion and drainage ditch along north fence, terraces north of the house, and rotation strips on the bottom-land.
