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Show frosion Takes Alarming Toll of Good Crop Land Erosion is taking an increasingly a arming toll of good crop land in e United States. Estimates by ,?artment agriculture indi-4 indi-4 ttat about 100 million acres of ' J,?00'1 crop Iand have been "ned or nearly ruined for profit-im profit-im "opP'nS y erosion, another 'pillion acres have been badly maged and still another 100 mil- a"es are eroding too fast mini' Sre now approximately 4R0 acres of good crop land in Wow "Eluding acreage now in acre tl' W6U s about 100 million irrij., ' need bearing, drainage, s on or other Improvement. i Ut 7 miUion a"es of ) erori m'Ui0n acres are subject res ar0"""'6" protective meas-e meas-e adopted. |