0117. Help Save Productive Soil: America's Basic Asset 1944

0117. Help Save Productive Soil: America's Basic Asset 1944

This booklet is a brief history of soil erosion on farmland in the United States and how this serious problem was addressed. In 1933 a government agency, known as the Soil Erosion Service, was organized under the Department of the Interior, and started to work on the problem of erosion in its various phases, although Federal interest in the erosion problem really began in 1929 with the establishment of several experimental farms to study erosion problems. In 1935 the Soil Erosion Service became the Soil Conservation Service as a permanent agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. With the increasing interest in the problems of erosion the program of activities of the Service was expanded. The main objective of the Soil Conservation Service (hereafter referred to as SCS) is to promote control of soil erosion, whether by water or wind, and
encourage better use of American farm and range
land over the widest possible area.

Hawkins, L.A.

International Harvester Company, Chicago, Illinois

State Library of Iowa

1944

Josiah C. Wearin. For questions about copyright, contact the State Library of Iowa at www.statelibraryofiowa.org.

USDA Soil Conservation Service

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