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 book contains Des Moines County Plat maps of the townships and a farmer's directory which includes their locations on the maps. There is also a Des Moines County highway map.
One of the largest one-year fellowships ever awarded at
Iowa State University has gone to Stewart W Melvin of rural Bloomfield, a 1964 graduate of ISU.
The 1967 Agricultural Conserservation Program (ACP) aided 479 farmers in Davis County in establishing soil, woodland, water, wildlife conservation measures on 7995
acres, Vern Henderson Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County…
Awards were presented to Davis County farmers for their accomplishments in soil conservation. The awards were presented at the annual banquet meeting of the Davis County Soil Conservation District held at the American Legion Hall.
Davis County farmers wishing to contour their cultivated fields should contact the Soil Conservation Service Office for assistance in laying out contour guide lines, reported Richard Codes, soil conservtionist of the local office
Davis County has become a leader in Iowa in the formation of grazing associations. A total of seven have been established in the state, five of them in Davis County. A grazing association is a "membeer-owned, member-operated and member-managed…
