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Livestock Production in Relation to Crop Adjustment Under the A.A.A.^*

U. S. D. A.

Abstract

The adjustment programs of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration kept about 30,000,000 acres out of the production of corn, wheat, cotton and other basic crops in 1935. This represents about one acre out of every 12 acres of cultivated land. Much of this land was used for soil-improving and erosion-preventing purposes. The general policy in the future will be to require that the land retired from the production of basic commodities under agricultural adjustment contracts be used for soil-building and erosion-preventing purposes and that this acreage must be in addition to the acreage normally devoted to such uses.

Other federal agencies whose primary objective is to improve soil reseources include the Soil Conservation Service, the Forest Service, and the Department of Interior. One major objective which is common to the programs of all these agencies is to bring about a less intensive use of the land.

^* Abstracted and condensed by the editor.