Show abandoned Abandon cd i I 1 L dream cost another spectacular new deit deal experiment WM was tossed into nto the als discard when ita was decided to abandon the thea roosevelt idea of a shelter belt of trees reaching from canada to texas the project was announced in july 1934 and had been spent on it up to june 1936 congress re fused even even to appropriate more in the agricultural bill to carry on a study ot of the scheme the T h e object t of the shelter belt idea was to conserve thi the soil and soil moisture moister e and to protect homesteads and crops 1 from dry summers and cold winters it had been propos proposed ed abit to r make the belt 1000 1000 mues miles long and miles wide the belt was to have traversed north and south dakota nebraska kansas oklahoma and into northern texas 1 |