Bloomfield will be the host for the regional contest to select a "queen of conservation." The contest was formerly the "queen of the furrow" competition.
Clay Barnett of Bloomfield, long active in soil conservation work and currently a district soil
commissioner in Davis county, will speak next Tuesday at Albia during the annual Monroe county conservation dinner.
Two farms which were winners in the Davis County Soil Conservation contest were picked as regional winners in c:ompetition that included competitors from five other counties.
