| Show soil waste is costing america 2000 every minute AS LAND GOES SO GOES GOBS MAN A if now 0 how much do you think our annual soil waste is costing us year in and year out every year the secretary of the department voi of agriculture answers this question thusly by the most conservative serva tive estimate more than a billion dollars part of the cost consists of damage to reservoirs streams harbors irrigation ditches part to damage of drainage and flood losses part to d damage ana of railways and highways nd part to lowered crop yields A billion dollars a year Is a soil waste equal to about two thousand dollars a minute day and night seven days a week |
