Show the land doctor docto r by vivian shearer all soil erosion Is not man made we all know that le velling processes are at work which tend to wear off the higher places and to fill up the lower this kind or of erosion Is called natural or geological erosion geological erosion la Is necessary because it helps in the formation and distribution trib ution of all soils when man moves a little dirt or rock or a mountain here or there it t too 0 0 might be bene fical it if done wisely on tile the other hand the erosion that wo we are all concerned about Is a careless and vastly hurried up process it Is man made and it Is known as accelerated cele rated erosion it Is the result of folks throwing a monkey wrench into mother natures business of maintaining a just so balance between soil growth and soil distribution this type of erosion Is as old as agriculture and the raising of domestic flocks and herds it began when the first good rain found the first over pasture or denuded forest or struck the first sloping furrow turned b by the first farmer or when the first wind whisked across the first piece of land which the vegetative cover had bad been scalped scalded by the first crude plow or had been too closely grazed by too many stock it has been going on ever since wherever and whenever mans mode anode of existence has stripped oft off the natural a shield hield of grass and forest and has bared the soil to the betrue tive force of wind and and rain the menace 0 or f soil erosion does not mean that we should not till and pasture the land for our existence it does mean how ever eer that we should be alss in ili the tha way we use it so that ve e will not allow it to become damaged by accelerated erosion and PO so that its productivity may be increased rather than diminished we should try to pass on to the generations that follow us as many inches of topsoil and as many acres of productive land as were passed on to us of the better gnau million acres of crop and grazing land that have leave been essentiality ruined ined by erosion so that the laud land Is of 0 no further immediate p pru rau pr productive 0 use about million acres were once good rich crop land this Is enough good crop land to provide a million and a quarter families with a good 80 acre tarm farm each another way to look at this loss would he be to say that the equivalent of 80 acre fauna farina have eroded out from under farm aarni families food producing families since world war I 1 A sizeable chenck or of our taxable soll soil our national wealth needlessly and perhaps heedlessly gone george washington once wrote iole the following in a letter ietter to a friend friend our lands BB as I 1 mentioned in my first letter were originally very ery good hut but use and abuso abuse have made them quite otherwise we ruin the lands that are already cleared and either cut more wood it we have hao it or emigrate to the western country |