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OUR REMAINING LAND
We Can Use It and Save It
By the Soil Conservation Service
Land-productive land on which good crops, pastures, or
forests will grow-is the most valuable resource on earth.
Whether you live in the city or the country, the land feeds and
clothes you and gives you most of the other things you use.
Productive land is essential to the well-being of any nation
and the people living in the nation. Most nations do not have
enough good land now; they have wasted too much of it in the
past. We are more fortunate in the United States; but, even
here, we do not have any to spare. And, we have been destroying
our good land at a prodigal rate.
Good topsoil and water are the main things that make land
productive. You cannot make fertile topsoil in a few years on
most land. It takes nature centuries to do it. But topsoil
can be removed from good land in a few years by careless farm2
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United States. Soil Conservation Service. Our Remaining Land: We Can Use It and Save It., book, June 1949; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5965/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.