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Aerial view of contoured farmland with roads, farms, and trees

Edmunud Sommers countour farming, 1945

B&W photograph of Edmund Sommers contour farming.

Tags: Contour Farming, Edmund Sommers, Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District

Early contouring, 1944

B&W photograph of Ed Stout and A.D. Meyers on Meyers's contour field.

Tags: A. D. Meyers, Contour Farming, Ed Stout, Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District, Meyers farm

Contour fence, 1957

B&W photograph of Jim Sullivan farm's contour fence.

Tags: Contour Farming, Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District, Jim Sullivan

Contour field, 1945

B&W photograph of Allen Sommer and Ed Stout working on contoured field with tractor.

Tags: Allen Sommers, Contour Farming, Ed Stout, Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District

B&W photograph of a group of men in the field at a contour farming school on Chandler Farm. Featured in picture: Clyde Chandler, Herman Reeg, E.J. Gibbs, Harvey Keiffer, Glen [Carran], Gene Reeg, John Hintgen, Elmer Rolling, [Laur] Krier, Clarence…

Tags: Clarence Wauderscheid, Clyde Chandler, Contour Farming, Elmer Rolling, Gene Reeg, Harvey Keiffer, Herman Reeg, Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District, John Hintgen, John Schoop, Laure Krier, Merlin Chandler, W. T. Hartung