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Last week the top U.S. soil expert, Soil Conservation Director Hugh Hammond Bennett, saluted Faulkner. Bennett pointed out that some pioneering farmers (notably United Fruit Co. and some Cuban sugar-cane growers) have long used a system of cultivation like Faulkner's, called "stubble mulch." The moldboard plow, agreed...
I should like to point out that, due to the ever-normal granary plan, we started this war with rather substantial surpluses of grains which we did not have in the last war. Also, the record crops of 1942 may have been due in large part to the soil conservation...
Fortunately, many State Conservation Commissions met the fishermen's problem in advance. They planted the bulk of their fish at accessible places: near railroad stations, bus lines, towns' edges.
These developmental projects include urban redevelopment; express highways through and around our metropolitan centers; reorganization and rebuilding of our terminal facilities; the development of our largely undeveloped river valleys, including hydroelectric power, reforestation, soil conservation, flood control, irrigation projects, sewage disposal projects, and cleaning up of polluted rivers.
This letter invoices public expenditures on public health, on nutritional programs, on adequate housing for low income groups, and adequate social security. Wise and full use of our productive resources, moreover, requires that we shall make adequate public investment in our public material resources involving conservation and development as outlined...