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<br />our federal, state and local agencies to whom already has been
<br />delegated the resRonsibility of planning and the obligation of
<br />accomplishment. The implication, however, must not be allowed
<br />to prevail that the problem is simple or that we can delegate
<br />authority and responsibility to a few and forget the problem,
<br />or that even ability, efficiency and science co-ordinated will
<br />solve the problem for us, There is one word greater even than
<br />co-ordination, the word is co-operation.
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<br />Let us dream of each individual citizen as a co-operator.
<br />Let us think of each individual citizen as a unit of public opin-
<br />ion, maker of laws, victim of waste (past, present and future)
<br />and still blessed today with individual crop acre index 125%.
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<br />Bearing in mind, then, that each individual citizen has acute
<br />vital interest, let us state as a precept that any and all project
<br />plans of production or land use has a soil depletion danger to
<br />a smaller or greater degree, This accepted, we hasten to suggest
<br />that it is the active concern of each individual to evaluate the
<br />hazard to determine the exact degree of peril to soil involved.
<br />As projects are complex and intricate in their ramifications, all
<br />more or less interwoven with .soil use, we hereby give three
<br />actual soil projects to illustrate and emphasize the necessity of
<br />hazard evaluation,
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<br />Probably the finest pasture and hay land of the Missouri
<br />Valley are found in the sand hills of Nebraska; sandy soil un-
<br />derlaid by hundreds of feet of ground water near the surface.
<br />Nowhere in the entire valley is irrigation and ground water
<br />handled more scientifically than by the Nebraska experts and
<br />farmers. However, there is an early day scandal down there
<br />in Nebraska; the old story of well-meaning politicians, super-
<br />land salesmen and land hungry settlers. The sand hills were
<br />broken up on a large scale. Result: calamity, lost hope, hardship.
<br />All could have been prevented if the exact erosion hazard,
<br />hazard spelled with capital letters, of blowing sand, could have
<br />been evaluated in advance.
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