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<br />8 HISTORY OF CONSERVATION IN THE MISSOURI VALLEY
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<br />Future historians, recording the rise and fall of communism,
<br />will emphasize the year 1948, the date the Soviet Union finished
<br />absorbing the Balkan States including Czechoslovakia, there-
<br />by reducing her previous abundant land ratio to the bare neces-
<br />sity 2.50 to 1 ratio, a dangerous ratio unless crop yields are
<br />normal, transportation perfect, with food reserve in storage,
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<br />East or West, true to form, greed's vision is dimmed by its
<br />own ugly shadow, Western Europe has at this date only 331/3%
<br />of its actual cropland needs and must continue to obtain 66 2/3%
<br />of her food by trade with Canada, Australia, Argentina and the
<br />United States, Experts tell us we have an average surplus of
<br />25% which means abundance and export possibilities. Never-
<br />theless it is evident that export projects should be carefully
<br />evaluated. Let us share until it more than hurts but let us
<br />also know in advance the nature and depth of the necessary
<br />wound,
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<br />We now take up as the third illustration the necessity of
<br />evaluation, a problem difficult in itself, because it is itself a
<br />major problem, and involves also, a hundred minor problems
<br />and decisions, We have this complicated problem because of
<br />an unusual condition that exists in the Missouri -Valley, a con-
<br />dition existing nowhere else in the United States, except to a
<br />minor degree in the southern great plains and in northern Can-
<br />ada, We have here an unusual condition that makes possible
<br />tremendous expansion of food products, but at almost prohibi-
<br />tive hazard of loss by wind and water.
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<br />All over the rest of the United States the farmers are pro-
<br />ducing each year at nearly 100% capacity. We grant that fertil-
<br />izers, improved varieties of seed, reclamation, inventions, irri-
<br />gation, and city gardens would increase national production,
<br />but it would be a comparatively small increase, But the Great
<br />Plains, including the southern Great Plains, present an entirely
<br />different picture. The fields are immense, These fields are ideal
<br />for large scale farm machinery. There are many million acres
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