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Show Billion Acres Surveyed Nearly a billion acres of farm lands in the United States have been mapped by soil surveyors of the United Unit-ed States Department of Agriculture. This area Is greater than the combined com-bined area of European Germany, France, and Great Britain. The work Is now progressing at the rate of more than 15,000,000 acres each year, and department officials estimate that between 20 and 30 years will be required re-quired to complete the survey. The cost of this work is between 2 and 3 cents an acre. |