Show our farms are just as wide and just as long as they ever were but are only two thirds as thick and getting thinner every day A third of our na nations eions topsoil has washed away topsoil is the basis of Arne americas ricas wealth and greatness all of our food clothing and shelter comes from the soil when our iron coal oil and other natural resources are sone gone we will have to devise substitutes from products grown from the soil because the soil is one natural resource that does not have to wear out nor be used up |