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Second, recent developments prove that the clean-up part of our job is well on its way . . . Part of that assurance comes from our new soil bank . . . This year the soil bank is retiring over 12 million acres and earning 500,000 farmers more than $260 million. When next year it retires 40 million to 50 million acres, overproduction will start coming under control. That means better times for every farmer...
...will administer vigorously the soil bank, a good Democratic idea...
...would urge consideration of what could be called a "legume bank" to change the emphasis from reducing cash crop production to increasing acreage of soil-building crops...
...assure ample credit at fair rates to the farmer who has to borrow money. We must protect REA co-ops by safeguarding and using the preference clause and by assuring them adequate funds for transmission, generation and distribution. We must conserve the greatest asset we have inherited-the soil . We must strengthen the agricultural conservation program and the Soil Conservation Service, restore the role of leadership to the conservation districts, restore the administration of agricultural programs to farmers, and take emergency measures when needed to prevent another dust bowl...
...fields, stream beds, limestone pits and lake bottoms of Mexico, Guatemala and British Honduras, archaeologists continue to reap a rich harvest of the New World's antiquity. There was a time when the artifacts, pottery, votive offerings and idols reclaimed from the soil were handed over to children as playthings or used as targets for Sunday pistol practice. But today archaeologists are alert to seize them as invaluable clues to mysterious, pre-Columbian cultures that send their roots back some 30 centuries. And art lovers now view them as art expressions of rare value...