Excerpt from The Wartime Program of Soil Conservation Biology: Statement of the Biology Division Presented at the Hearings Before the Select Committee on Conservation of Wildlife Resources, House of Representatives The slogan, Selective Service for Every Acre, states an objective for the Soil Conservation Service with the Nation at war. Dr. Hugh H. Bennett, Chief of the Service, emphasized this objective when he recently wrote: There has always been one basic reason for soil conservation the extent of its contribution to the welfare of mankind. Today that wel fare depends on our success with respect to the prosecution of total war. It is not enough to conserve soil and deter; soil conservation must re sult in the utmost yield, without waste of any kind, of those products of the soil needed by the United Nations, 'such yield is shown by the fol lowing figures which tell the story of increased production. Studies by 'the research divisions of the Soil Conservation Service and other research groups indicate that on extensive acreages in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa conservation fanning increases corn yields from 5 to 35 bushels per acre. Concerning one conservation practice, con tour cultivation, R. E. Uhland writes: Should this practice be extended to one-third of the corn acreage of the Corn Belt, the annual production of corn would be increased by almost bushels. This is ba ed upon hundreds of observations and is supported by experimental data. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.