MS 24
Clay C. Barnett (1895-1994)
Papers, 1937-1961

Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

Descriptive summary

creator:

Barnett, Clay C. (1895-1994)

title:

Papers

dates:

1937-1961

extent:

5.21 linear feet (5 document boxes, 2 oversized boxes)  

collection number :  

MS 24

repository:

Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

 Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Clay C. Barnett Papers, MS 24, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Biographical note


Clay C. Barnett was born on a farm in Davis County, Iowa, in 1895. He was a farm manager until 1935, when he entered the Soil Erosion Service (later the U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service) in Oskaloosa, Iowa, as an agronomist. He also worked as an agronomist for the Civilian Conservation Corps. Barnett served in the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) for twenty-four years as district conservationist in Des Moines, Iowa, and as work unit conservationist in Davis County, Iowa. He was also state director of the Izaak Walton League; a member of the board of Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative; chair of the Davis County Soil Conservation District; chair of the Wheat Allotments Committee in Wapello County (1933-1934); and temporary chair of the Corn-Hog Allotment Committee (1933). He promoted the first National Soil Conservation Field Day in 1946 and conducted the event for the Des Moines Register.

 

Collection description

 
This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating mainly to the National Plowing Match and Field Day (1946-1950), pasture improvement and conservation projects, and corn and soybean test yields.  

Other materials relate to Bennett's career with the Soil Conservation Service (SCS): a curriculum for a SCS Regional Training Center; SCS district work plans; resources conservation programs; field diaries through the 1940's and publications on soil conservation. The collection also includes correspondence with Herb Plambeck (RS 21/7/42), farm director of WHO Radio in Des Moines, and a sound color film of the 1946 National Plowing Match and Field Day.

 

Container list

 

Box Folder Title Dates
1 1 Pasture Improvement Projects 1937
1 2 Pasture Improvement Projects: Includes English Creek Watershed project monograph, maps and work sheets. 1939-1940
1 3 Pasture Improvement Projects: Hillculture Field Day, Hillculture Studies in Iowa, Conservation Projects 1945-1946
1 4 Pasture Improvement Projects: Marybell Project in Soil & Water Conservation in Polk County, sponsored by the Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce. 1949-1954
1 5 Pasture Improvement Projects: Des Moines Chamber of Commerce, Agricultural Committee, includes National Farm Institute Programs and organization, correspondence. 1948-1958
1 6 Pasture Improvement Projects: Soil Conservation Contest includes judging scale cards, correspondence 1953-1953
1 7 Pasture Improvement Projects: Conservation pamphlets published by U.S.D.A., National Wildlife Federation, Izaak Walton League. 1941-1961
2 1 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Milner Farm, newspapers and newspaper clippings 1946
2 2 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Bellman Farm, maps, correspondence, newspapers and newspaper clippings 1947
3 3 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Waechter Farm, correspondence, newspaper reports, committee meeting reports 1949
3 4 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Dakins Farm, newspapers 1950
Map case C31 D8 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Milner Farm, cover of scrapbook 1946
Map case C31 D8 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Bellman Farm, scrapbook of Field Day, including newspaper clippings and photographs 1947
3 1 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Milner Farm (4 photographs) 1946
4 1 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Bellman Farm (2 photographs) 1947
4 2 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Cole Farm (53 photographs) 1948
4 3 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Waechter Farm (62 photographs) 1949
4 4 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Dakins Farm (66 photographs) 1950
3 2 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Four unrelated photographs, two of a drainage project, one of a grassy waterway, one of Kiwanis Club Tour 1954
4 5 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Unidentified (21 photographs) n.d.
5 1 National Plowing Match and Field Day: Additional Field Days and Open Houses 1941-1956
5 2 National Plowing Match and Field Day: State & National Plowing Contests, includes rules, correspondence, committee reports 1952-1958
5 3 Other Professional Concerns: Corn & Soybean Test Yields, includes description of procedure, yield return forms, work sheets 1939-1954, n.d.
5 4 Other Professional Concerns: Extension Service, includes articles, handbooks, correspondence and reports 1940-1956, n.d.
5 5 Other Professional Concerns: Story County, Soil Conservation Service Office, includes correspondence, minutes of committee meetings 1949-1957
5 6 Other Professional Concerns: Kiwanis, Agriculture Committee, meetings, correspondence, handbooks, bulletins 1946-1954, n.d.
5 7 Personal: Includes correspondence on medical problems and letters of commendation 1948-1958
5 8 Miscellaneous: Includes correspondence, State Fair exhibits 1943-1957
6 1 Soil Conservation Service (SCS): Booklets and pamphlets 1949-1953
6 2 Soil Conservation Service (SCS): District Work Plan for Warren County, Iowa, No. 35, 1944.Technical Work Plan.
Work Unit Analysis, 1952. Field Diaries--contain data on course work, work plans, locations, and activities related to SCS districts		 1944-1952
6 3 Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Field Diaries 1938-1941
6 4 Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Field Diaries 1943-1944
6 5 Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Field Diaries 1945-1946
6 6 Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Field Diaries 1947-1949
7 1 Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Field Diaries 1955-1956
7 2 Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Field Diaries 1957-1959
7 3 Soil Conservation Service (SCS): Meeting plans and handout guides on planting, trees, terracing 1944-1958, n.d.
7 4 Soil Conservation Service (SCS): Polk County, Iowa Soil Conservation District Seventh Annual Report, 1952 and Ninth Annual Report, 1954. 1952-1954
7 5 Soil Conservation Service (SCS): Publications 1940-1949
7 6 Soil Conservation Service (SCS): Regional Training Center, No. 3, LaCrosse, Wisconsin 1944-1946 Curriculum. 1944-1946
8 1 Soil Conservation Service (SCS): Resources Conservation Services Programs (Warren and Story Counties, Iowa) 1951-1952
8 2 Soil Conservation Service (SCS): Soils Summer Course Photographs (46 3x5 B&W) 1937
8 3 Soil Conservation Service (SCS): Letters re: identifying pictures and people in folder 8/2 photographs 1937

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Iowa State University Library, Ames, IA 50011
Comments: tzanish@iastate.edu
URL: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS024.html
Revised: 28 June 2007.