This 19th Annual Report includes helpful soil conservation information to farmers including the availability of conservation contractors to help with the installation. Accomplishments and activities carried out during the year are highlighted.
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Highlights included The first Parallel, cut and fill - tile inlet terraces were constructed in the county. The number of farms signed up as "cooperators" of the district increased 300% this year as 73 farm owners and operators signed up 12,235 acres…
Highlights of activities included: over 120,000 feet of cut and fill, tile inlet terraces were built. This more than doubles last year's accomplishments. Group Jobs (where two or more neighbors work together on a common .conservation
problem)…
Highlights for the year in this report include the following:The District in cooperation with several other agencies in the county helped publish a CONSERVATION FIELD TRIP GUIDE BOOK for the schools of Des Moines County. These books name and describe…
This report explains the shared cooperative relationship between the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service and the Des Moines County Soil Conservation District in educating and assisting farmers with soil and water conservation…
Newspaper clippings about the Beaman Co-Op annual meeting, dated Dec. 27, 1949; an account of the wedding of Robert L. Groesbeck and Delene Coffman, an obituary for Trena Kaput, and a story about the sale of the Thomas Store.
Undated newspaper clippings on a variety of subjects, including a basketball game, the promotion of Owen Rattray to marine Corporal in Korea, the elementary school Christmas operetta, a reception for the new Methodist Pastor and wife, and giving to…
Page of mostly undated clippings regarding the military service of Richard S. Vint, John J. Rattray, Robert Lyle Groesbeck, Ronald Rowe, Dean Russie, and William D. Vint.
Page of mostly undated clippings about the military service of Gordon Rowe, Robert Lee Untiedt, Clifford D. Arnold, Raymond Elliott and Charles E. Bunce.
