Show make soil safe for future anderson andersen urges it seems rather ridiculous to devote all our energies to saving ourselves from the atom bomb only to move into a slow lingering deterioration because we have not been smart enough to save our soils slaking making the nations soil safe for the future is a 20 year job under the best conditions secretary clinton P anderson recently told the fourth annual oklahoma save the soil clinic and it could easily take two or three times that long with never ending maintenance for instance 13 million acres had been terraced by 1943 1945 the secretary said but seven times that much remaina to be done farmers had drained two thirds of a million in falion acres but had bad 44 W times as many to go despite re edings of over 27 million acres of range and pasture land we had done just one fifth of the job eight times as many acres of range land are in need of proper stocking as are now properly stocked aho bhough 13 gh we have nearly 10 million a cres acres under complete soil and water conservation treatment and million acres are being used in carrying out one or more agricultural cu tura conservation program practices agriculture is still a long way from the permanent protection pro tec necessary for our remaining productive land anderson said |