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.
The first articles announces a water conservation postage stamp and the other two articles report the approval of a petition to develop a work plan for a Big Wyacondah
Watershed plan
Jack Chamberlain, conservation aide here for the past, ten years announced Wednesday evening at the SCS banquet that he was resigning from his post.
effective January 1st.
As a county average, more than 8 inches of rain fell during a three day period in Davis County leaving crops corn and soybeans under water and sending rivers and creeks out of their banks.
Plaques presented by the Bloomfield Newspapers went to the three winners of the 1959 Soil Conservation Contest in Davis County and were presented at the Fifteenth Annual SCD Banquet and Meeting last Wednesday in Bloomfield.
Farmers pictured in the photos were the recipients of soil conservation awards at the 14th annual meeting of the Davis County Soil Conservation District.
