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five to ten times the plant food required to produce a 100 bushel per acre corn crop. No less important the the accompanying water loses which are so essential to crop production. Needless to say, these figures should arouse the interest and command the attention of - the people of this great Commonwealth. We must redouble our efforts to prevent the continuation of such destructive soil and water losses.
I am glad to report that the citizens of this state have already made notable progress in correcting this condition. One example of this action is the widespread application of the practice of contopr strip cropping combined with other necessary supporting conservation measures. It has been shown by tests that this practice reduces soil and water losses to one tenth of those occurring with conventional straight row cultivation. And this is only one of a large number of effective conservation practices being used in a sound landuse program in this State to combat soil and water losses—I congratulate you. The progress -that _ we have made should encourage and inspire us to do a better job in the fptur°. We must lift our sights and increase our ~gffoils to conserve and -develop these resources—the resources that have played such an important part in making ours a leading State..
It is both fitting and. appropriate that 1 should commend the farm people who have taken the leadership in forming and developing programs of Soil Conservation ^districts to conserve and rebuild these resources. Already 92% of the farm lands of iJvT State have been organized into Soil Conservation Districts and more than 30,000 landowners are actively participating in the programs of these districts.
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