| Show GRASS HOLDS SOIL AGAINST WIND AS WELL ELL AS RAIN RU The dust in the Middle V Wait Wert tt Give added impetus to the tho thoI I national movement to turn millions mil mU- lions of acres of marginal back to grass and legumes and added added add ed proof of the value alue of land laud In lu sod Bod to prevent erosion by wind accord according ing lug to crO crop craIr and soil men in the U. U 8 S Department of Agriculture Good sod prevents erosion by wind as well as by water points out Dr A. A J. J of the Bureau of ot Plant Industry There is no doubt that there is much land in cultivated crops that might well have havo been left in grass or might be bein bein bein in grass braS or legumes a a. part of r the time Now that there are addition al reasons for going back t to grass the factors of wind and water erosion erosion ero ero- sion should have even more weight I ero-I than usual Dust storms only ad add to lo the discomforts dis comforts and economic loss oE of a II drought Wind Vind erosion brings im Jm immediate immediate mediate loss loss on on seed blown from front the soil and in the tho damage to growing crops crop and households Every acre in sod means roans that much less soil erosion and that much l loss less ss dust In Inthe inthe the tho air |
