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Tin1id Selling Puts Chill
OnMarketRecoueryShlft

| far with the days aggregate al
100000 shares compared with
| !, ,230, 900 Wednesday.
Quick profit cashing by pro.
fessionals received the principal
blame for the stumble although
offerings for tax purposes were
fairly large. Some bidding still
was based on hopes for a year
end rally as reinvestment de-
mand reasserts itself. Public
customers again held aloof to
await Washington anti-inflation
steps and international develop
ments.
The Associated Press 60-Stock
Composite was off 2 of a oolnt
at 64.5. It was another broad
market. OF 1,069 issues register
ing. 458 fell and 365 rose.
Up a shade were Worthington
pump, on a splitup proposal !;
Emerson Radio, on a planned
stock dividend, and Aquirre
Sugar, on raised and extra
disbursement. Union Pacific add
ed l IL at 154 IL. Lesser ad-
vances were retained by Good
year. Texas Co., Paramount
Pictures, U. S. Rubber, Mont
gomery Ward, Caterpillar Trac-
tor, Douglas Aircraft, American
Telephone, Consolidated Edison,
Kennecott, du Pont and Great
Northern railway.
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NEW YORK PRODUCE

NEW YORK, Dec. 10. - uD -
Produce markets: Potatoes: IDOL
lars per 100 lbs. Unless other
wise indicated.) Steady. Maines
Kathahdins No. l, 3.OO-.50;
Green Mountains No. /, 1925 so;
Long Island Green Mountains
No. !, 3.00-.50; so lbs No. l
Green Mountains 1.6O-.80; Green
Mountain No. l B 1.60-.75;
Green Mountain No l, 10 lbs bags
.39; Idaho Russets No. l, $40 IS;
Connecticut Green Mountains No.
A so lbs ITO asked, Is lb
bag so asked; Idaho Russets 10
lb bags 1854; Nebraska Red
Bliss so lbs No. l A or No. l B
800 asked.
Sweet potatoes: (bushels bas-
kets) steady. New Jersey Golden
No. l, 2.5O-3.5O; New Jersey Gold
en- No. 2, 10000; Jersey type
processed 800; Jersey type No.
l, 2.25-3.25; Maryland Golden
Wax No. l, 2.oo-3.25; med. 100;
jumbo 100; Virginia Golden No.
l, 2.75; Pink Hearts No. l, $50
3.25; Delaware Golden No. l,
ITS.
Live poultry: per lb. steady.
Turkeys hens 55-57; toms 40-47;
roosters old 1925; rabbits all
grades 25-35; fowls 1888; chick
ems 39-45; broilers 1914; pigeons
pair 45-75; pullets 44-51.
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS

Furnished By Allen c. Ewing d Co.
Aviation Shares SOC -------- 5.02 5.45
ACL of Conn. 40Oa $1,000 81 1-2 SO IL
Boston Fund 2.l6b -- 1886 21.25
/ Carolina Insurance l. 40a - 26 q
Chase National Bank 16Oa - 80 35
McBee .40a Ex Div 10c 6 So 1-8
Massachusetts Investors Trust
1885 Ex Div 40---------- 25.5 27.08
National Transit Co. -------- Alb 4 3-8
! National Transit Pump s.
/ Machine Co. Elk Div SOC ----- 6 3-8
Peoples Savings Bank & Trust
3.ooc ------------ 80 -
Red Rock Bottling inc,
Georgia. -----------------
Security National Bank .aoc - ~
Standard Stoker 3.00c Elk Div
75c 81 23
Tide Water Power Common
Goa Z 34
Wilmington Savings & Trust
a. Indicated annual dividend rate
bIncome and profits dividends paid in
past IL months
c. Faid in 1916
The above quotations are nominal and
are believed to be indications of the
price at which the securities may be
purchased or sold.
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Iteer stretcher-bearers to pass
by a patient too badly hurt to
be moved, or past all help. It
was a job that turned her white
about the mouth and made her
eyes sick and bitter; but il was
so much like what she had gone
through overseas that she could
steady herself by the memory
{ ID 60 on.
The rain had ceased, and
gradually the darkness thinned
and the gray light of dawn
looked down on what had been,
five hours before, a peaceful,
prosperous, busy small city.
Now it was a shambles among
whose ruins lay dead and dying
and those whose bodily injuries
were less serious but whose
minds would forever be marked
by the horror of this night All
in less than an hour, it had hap
pened; wild. roaring wind,
black and funnel-shaped, though
its evil shape had been hidden
by the nights darkness, mad
swept over the city with It's ac-
compartment of rain and thun-
der and lightning. And now the
city was in ruins.
The gray light frightened and
the sun came up
To Cathy, Strengthening her
weary body. easing her aching
back, the first ray of sunlight
that fell across the white, twist
ed face of a woman whose life
h run out beneath Cathys
swift, capable hands was some
thing shocking and incredible. It
seemed almost indecent that the
sun should come up, bright and
FURNISHED from the rain: tn a
the leaves should look newly
green, fresh-washed, and tn at
they should stir happily in the
little breeze that came with the
suns rise. The sound of birds,
singing in the ecstasy of the
dew-wet, fresh-washed earth,
made her shiver and feel that
she must put her hands over her
ears. How could nature tear the
world apart with her fury one
moment, and the next present a
bright, smiling face innocent of
all evil?
"Think there's a chance,
Nurse? asked a grimy, sweat
stained man who laid a crum-
pied body on the ground before
her.
Cathy jerked her head up and
looked into the dark, griny face
and gasped, "Mark!
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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footeh, others in what scraps Of
clothing they had been able to
Grasp in the breathless mo-
nents between awakening and
fleeing their homes before the
mighty onrush of wind and rain
and lightning.
There were people in some OF
the ruins; people who screamed
with terror and pain; people
who lay very quietly and would
never cry out again.
It was a scene of indescrib-
able confusion. To Cathy, there
was something hideously remi'
niscent of the scenes she had
looked upon abroad; but those
had been scenes of man-made
horror: bombs and shells and
the sickeningly terrifying liquid
flame throwers. But this-there
was something unbearably call
Gus about this, the sheer imper-
sonality of natures might and
fury.
Rescue workers were already
busy, unorganized, working in a
sort of desperation that retarded
their own efforts. There were
jured, terrified people already
brought out of the ruins. Cathy
went swiftly and competently to
work, while Maggie, recovered
from her own fear and horror
by the sight of so much that
needed to be done, began gath
ering up the lost and bewildered
children, some of them still half
asleep.
Cathy was rolling a bandage
about a womans lacerated fore
head when a voice beside her
said crisply, "Good work-who-
ever you are.
Cathy looked up swiftly into
the tired. tense face of man
in the sort of white coat that a
hospital staff doctor wears.
elm Cathy Layne - Lieuten-
ant in the Army Nurse Corps,
she told him, and tucked the
bandage expertly into place.
''Thank the Lord-can we use
you! said the man praverfuIly.
"I'm DR.. Stevens of St. Vim.
cents Can you carry on here
for a little? We're shorthanded,
and they're coming into the hos
pital in truckloads.
"Of course. It's a little like
what went on in the Pacific.
Cathy answered, and passed to
the next patient, a child who
had been brought out of a
wrecked house.
She worked smoothly, ef-
ficiently, steeling herself to the
ugliness of what she saw. The
rescue squads were working
more efficiently now, as their
dazed horror began to lessen,
and they could see better what
must be done.
Three fourths of the town lay
in ruins, but out of the undam-
aged fourth cars were beginning
to appear; willing hands took
charge of Cathys patients as
fast as she could render first
aid. and bore them off to homes,
or to the hospital. Now and then
Cathv had to sign to the volun-
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NEW YORK, Dec. lS.-CP)-
While assorted stock market
leaders managed to keep on the
upside today, timid selling pun
a decided chill on the general
recovery shift.
Dealings and prices tapered
after a fast opening. Llquida-
ton was a bit more insistent
in the final hour as most rails
gave ground. Modest advances
persisted at the close but de-
clines of fractions to point or
more predominated. Transfers
crossed the million level for the
eighth December session thus
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open High Low L..
CHICAGO POTaTorS

sI CHICAGo, Dec. Is. " "
CUSDA) Potatoes: tot.l :, . .
shipments 594; arrivals sl. T. y
tract 230; supplies moders,s', No. y p
mand slow; marke, dull. C's' co',e a'
do Red Nc Clures s3.65; eJ,;, Jd.t q
Russet Buubanks 81. s.. W.i- .i.
Green Mountains 1925; Min,a., re''
to-North Dakota Red River i,.:1i, V,Ts
Bliss Triumphs $500, Cob5i., NJ,
$3.50. ''OO-s
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CHICAGO BUTTER

CHICAGO, Dec. 18.- R -
(USDA)-Butter firm; prices
one to two cents a pondn higher;
AA SO score 1859; A 92-87.5-
98; B 90-85185.5; C 89-76.5.
Eggs weak; prices IL to 2 IL
cents a dozen lower; large No.
l extra $3.50; No. 2-545;
medium No. l extras and stan
dards 51-52! current receipts
49-50.5; dirties 1859; checks
1888.
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Dealings, Prices Taper
Sharply After Fast
Opening Spree

MARKETS AT A GLANCE
NEW YORK, Dec. IL. -
up - Stocks-Mixed; light
selling stalls advanced.
Bonds-Steady; Rails ad-
vance.
Cotton-Lower commission
house liquidation.
CHICAGO
Wheat-Steady; 1947 crop
production estimate re-
duce1.
Corn-Steady; best gains
reduced by late selling.
Oat~-Steady; close near
top.
Hogs-25 to 50 cents lower;
top S26.75.
Cattle-Active and strong
to so cents higher; choice
absent.
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TO-DAY, Britain produces half
or more OF its own fo,l supply
compared " i4h one-tk;rd before
WorlG W3r IL
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rR1s, MEW s.e YORK corno,,

NEW YORK ~ ooTTON
Of cf;'9n IS ee3tt futures n registered ter r.
trading today. 1lPo Tbs a bale in Hl;i N
sfO5eoted of oeet ed to recurrgaat' e5a'het e W
wbi1a VI ci1ommission mis- house 'ii' Iontllp tlps;e III
on1n mhlIe N mill |; suppoTt Tt Dqqa.da4:a
end eniy ss15;n. On the scale aorS rae'e;o2.. l2.
spof op se{,yl5y cotton in the textile S9,s, rs, \,
oyer O7, the cotton 4s|S' ex5o.. u.ncs'ta.5a77 ~
all contributed to aasi.p gci. p'og,aa
lures. ~ edSlAeSs in =,
NssTsnSs6 NJ S5 IN 5S5s5a 'o'8a OF Co?.o.
t5sa t9s, ,4ss t1o3 bales, or ,s'aSt1P',oa attIsP
$4,000 "a y: bales. Consu~S,oe'f. Csv,,S 81 '53a
tne.o the first .3 four rlserjpP'lo3 month";! q d
about 463,o0O bales s'''uer yer, 80 VI,
same period a Year sss under Ii,
mills m during NovembsSrs age, +. Th-.'
:'Esa a5out 5a% 55ooo5 So'5o3 5a1.. iay:5t',5 5
with end October stocts ty0'npa'H
Futures closed IS cents r4s'
a bale lower than the nro''! 10 'l@
NJ, o open oa High Low Lsy
Men $500 $500 35.57 35 5Ss' ~ ~.
May M. s5.6l s3 81 1852 1926 s. "a oaS on,,
os. Jly 81 AS 45 3449 34l5544.11S8 %.;5 o1 \
Dec 3O.5o 1880 30 065 30 d 80 % o.. Of \
Mich 3O.50 3O.5O 80. 40 Al 3O'Ssn S1n Of u. !;
Middling spot 36.3sN J'Ir5t o4t u, y; L
N-Nominal. '' Of
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FINAL BOND QUOTATIONS:

AT & Sc IS s5 11724.
ACL Az 64 101Ea.
B & o 4x72A 86As.
Can Pac As Perp 96.
CB & @ 412s n 112H2.
C & E Inc 81 80.
CGW As 88 7712.
Cri & P r 4s "a 5012.
Fla E C IS "A 81.
Hud C IS GA 871z
H & M 5s 5oA.
Ills-Cent 4s4s sc 1884
Int C N IS So 21A.
NIX & T Al IS 81 so.
NYC R IS 81 so.
NYC R IS 2O13 74A.
Nor & West As 96 1877.
Nor Pac 412s 2047 1884.
Penn RR DIS IS 101.
Sou Ry CN IS "a 1854.
West Md IS 50 1894.
FOREIGN BONDS:
Aust IS SIS 102.
Aust 312s Sc 80.
Poland IS so 10A4.
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NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH, Ga, Dec IA
"a - Turpentine 64A; otter.,,
sales and receipts none; ,5, rs
ments 102; stocks $685. ''
Rosin, offerings and sale, 4,
receipts eight; shipment, ,1 N
stocks 10,857, -"
Quote: B, $50; D, IT'S. Z. sn,
F, G, H, I, K, NJ, l. N AN
WV and X, 9.35.
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RALEIGH POULTRY

RALEIGH, Dec. 18 - (P -
(NCDA)-Raleigh egg and poul-
try markets steady; U. S. Grade
AA large 81; fryers "a.
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Dr.. H. H. Bennett
Holds Honorary
Degrees for Work
Continued from page -

CONTINUED from page -
sheet erosion-the removal of
a thin layer of soil from the
surface of entire sloping fields
as suspended material in the
runoff of rainfall. It was fur
ther emphasized to him in 1910
and 1911, during a soil survey
of Fairfield county, S. c. He
found that even then As per
cent of the county's area had
been ruined for further cult
walton or severly damaged by
erosion. Erosion has continued
in the succeeding years and
the population has dropped.
The census figure was 29,442 in
1910. In 1910 it was 1882.
Gradually DR.. Bennett built
up a background of facts as the
basis for a nation wide pro-
gram to check accelerated
erosion and to counteract some
of it's effects. AS he continued
this phase of his work, he be-
gan his second important con-
tribution-that of a teacher
and educator
He published aspects of his
findings in technical and pop
ular journals, and used every
effort to bring the problem of
erosion to the attention of gov
eminent officials. Finally, in
November, 1928, after years of
apathetic response on nearly
all sides, he was called before
a subcommittee of the house OF
representatives to give a full
statement of the oil erosion
problem and of his plans for
study and action. AS a result,
the Agricultural Appropriation
bill then under consideration
was amended to provide $780,
900 for investigating soil erosion
and water conservation. DR.
Bennett was placed in charge
of a major part of the investi-
cations.
In September, 1888, the Soil
Erosion service, financed by
public works funds, was set up
as an emergency organization
in the Department. Of the In
terror. This was the first agen-
cy equipped to undertake a ma
tion-wide action program to
combat accelerated erosion on
agricultural land. DR.. Bennett
was appointed director of the
new organization.
Establishment Of a perman-
ent government program for
soil defense followed two years
later, when congress passed the
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7. Improper irrigation;
8. Burning of organic soils;
9. Excessive burning of graz
ing areas;
10. Improper cultivation;
II. Single-crop farming;
Some of the things that soil
conservation does are:
l. Holds soil and its contents
of plant nutrients in fields.
pastures and woodlands;
2. Maintains or increases the
supply of beneficial organic
matter and organisms in the
soil;
3. Keeps land productive;
4. Stores rainfall in the soil
for crop use;
5 Increases Investigation of
crops;
6. Increases per-acre yields;
7. Makes cultivation easier
and more efficient;
8. Reduces cost of operation
and maintenance of farm
machinery;
9. Increases farm income;
10. Reduces waste of rainfall
and helps control floods;
II. Reduces the filling Of
stream channels, bitches, ana
reservoirs with the debris OF
erosion;
II. Reduces stream pollution:
10. Improves conditions for
Wildulife and fish;
IA. Puts all land into pro-
ductive use according to adant-
ability;
IS. Develops habits of people
working together on common
problems;
16. Brings people to love the
Land and develops appreciation
of rural life.
How the Job is Done
There are many things that
can be done; some of them are
as follows:
/. Use suitable erosion con-
troll practices and structures to
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Petitions Would
Include Entire
County ihD District
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Continued from Page y
proved range management, i'm
proved water storage facilities,
the use of runoff water spread
ing systems on haylands and
storage of feed reserves. Con-
servation plans for dryland
farms would include use Of
land according to its capabili-
ties and the establishment Of
the treatments such as contour
farming, stubble- mulch tillage,
strip cropping and other meas
ures as the examination of the
land shows to be needed.
Although these things are of
primary benefit to the land to
which they are applied, it S
also pointed out that it is a
start toward the goal of con-
trolling streams at the head
waters. This benefits the lower
lands by reducing the likelihood
of flash flooding and damage
that occurs when intermittent
streams are sent on rampages
after sudden rains.
More than that, it is said,
having all of the county in the
soil conservation district will
lead people to think of the
county as a unit rather than
as irrigated and dryland sec
tions. This is needed, because
in addition to the cash crops
they produce the irrigated
lands can also become a stable
feed base for the adjoining
rangelandS.
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Bennett Summarizes
Soil Conservation
Function, Methods

In the December, 1945, issue
of Soil Conservation, DR.. H. H.
Bennett made the following
summary of the functions and
methods of the Soil ConServa-
ton service:
Some of the land troubles
and deficiencies that soil con-
Servation helps prevent are:
/. TopSoil washing or blowing
away;
2 Land torn to pieces by
gullies;
8. Covering good land with
infertile erosion debris;
4. Exhaution of plant food
in the soil by overcropping and
teaching;
S. Accumulation of toxic
salts;
8. Water logging of the land;
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Soil Conservation act Of 1895
which authorized the creation
of the Soil Conservation service
as a permanent bureau of the
Department of Agriculture. DR..
Bennett was appointed chief of
this service, which he continued
and expanded the work of the
Soil Erosion service.
In October, 1898, changes in
the organization of the Depart
ment of Agriculture broadened
DR.. Benefits responsibilities as
chief of the Soil Conservation
service.
In the course of his career
with the government, DR. Ben
nett has served in the follow
ing capacities.
19O9-Member of a committee
appointed at the request of Col.
Goethals to report on agricult-
ural possibilities in the Canal
zone.
1914-In charge of an expedi-
ton to Alaska to explore the
Col 2 BENNETT BIOGRAPHY.
agricultural possibilities of re
gionS under consideration for
location of a government rail-
road.
Member of Chugach
National Forest commission in
1918-First lieutenant engip-
eer, U. S. Army.
~1919-Member, Guatemala
Honduras boundary commits
1873 member, Rubber
commission, exploring the pos
sibilities of rubber production
in the Americas.
1925-26-Made reconnaissance
soil survey in Cuba in coopera-
ton with the Tropical Plant
Research foundation.
194O-Chairman, Section Of
Agriculture and Conservation,
Eighth American Scientific
congress.
1941-42-Headed a mission to
Venezuela, sent at the request
of the government of that
country, to study agricultural
resources and possibilities.
1943-President, Association OF
American geographerS.
Dr.. Bennett is the author OF
four books The Department of
Agriculture'S photography on
soil erosion and soil and water
conservation lists more than a
hundred of his technical and
lie is a member of the Am
erican Society of Agronomy,
the American Forestry as:ocia-
ton, the Association of Ameri-
can Geographers, American
Geographical society, Friends
of the Land, the Canadian
Conservation association, the
Sociedad Geografica de Cuba
and the American Association
for the Advancement of Sci
ence. He is also chairman of
the Pan American Soil Conser-
walton commission, a fellow of
the American Association for
the Advancement of Science
and founder of the Soil Con-
servation Society of America.
On May 16, 1914, DR.. Bennett
was awarded the Frances K.
Hutchinson medal "for service
in conservation" by the Garden
Clubs of America.
DR.. Benefits broad know
ledge of world erosion condi-
tons and latest soil conserva-
ton technique was called upon
again in the summer of 1914,
when he spent two and a half
months in the Union of South
Africa at the request of the
Union government. There he
consulted with government Of
ficials and studied the country's
land-use problems first hand.
A highlight in DR.. Benefits
long conservation career was
his home states recognition on
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stop soil washing and blowing;
2. Hold the rain that falls on
the Land for use of crops trees,
grass livestock or other pur-
poses;
8. Use manure, fertilizer, and
lime where needed, in the
right amounts and at the right
time;
4. Use suitable tillage, mulch
ing and cropping practices to
protect the land and save rain
fall;
S. Drain over-wet or water
logged fields;
6. Plant grass, shrubs, treee
or legumeS on land too steep,
shallow, or credible to pillow.
7. Flood fields where toxic
salts ("alkali') have accumu-
lated in excessive amount, to
leach out the salts;
8 Protect organic soils peat
land from fire by flooding or
by raising the water table;
.. OpC11 w Su1UdUlS IleW
lands, where needed, unde.
conservation methods to in
crease cropland;
10. Increase supplementary
feed crops on grazing enter
prises to help prevent over =
grazing;
IL. support conservation
work with continuing program
of research aimed at quickest
possible solution of problems
arising in connection with field
work.
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Hugh Bennett" day, Sept. .,
1916. The special day was pro-
claimed by the governor Of
North Carolina and was spon-
Hored by the Brown Creek Soil
Conservation district, including
his home Arson county, the
first such district to be formed
in the United States.
On April 10, 1s47, DR.. Ben
nett was awarded a Cuban
medal and certificate of merit
by the National Agricultural
and Industrial Society of Cuba.
The award conferred the rank
of knight Commander in the
society upon DR.. Bennett in
recognition of extraordinary
services redered to the govern
ment and people of Cuba dur
ing 1926, while he was max
ing a soil SURVEY, of the island
PLACEMENT OF PONDS
In the recent report of the
Biology division of the Soil
Conservation service to the
House of Representatives COM
mittee on conservation of Wild
life resources, Edward H. Ora
ham, division chief, stated:
&C.. the pond is not built
on land better adapted to the
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production Of titled crops,
livestock or wood products. It
Is situated where it conven-
iently serves to water livestock,
cover a gully, provide a place
to raise fish, or for some other
specific use requiring the i'm
poundment of water, and where
any or all such purposes con-
tribute to the ideal use of the
Land.
las much care goes into the
selection of the pond site as Is
given to the choice of a field
for corn production or the de-
cision that the best land use
for a hillside is to devote 1t to
woods. The assistance given to
the farmer who wishes to raise
fish for food in his pond Is OF
the same quality as that Of
fered when he desires to raise
kudzu for livestock forage on
an eroding bank"
Recent tests on dairy farms
and cattle ranches in the
Southwest have shown irrigat-
ed pastures to be economical
for feeding cattle and effective
in increasing milk and meat
production, reducing labor and
preventing soil erosion.
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In humus areas tree planting
is recommended for wood pro-
duction; in the Great Plains
for windbreaks to protect farm
steads, crops and livestock; in
all regions for conservation of
soil and water.
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The job of saving Americas
soil is everybody's job.