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Excerpt from The Land, Today and Tomorrow: October 1934; Official Gazette Here is the first attempt in the history of the country to put through large scale, comprehensive erosion and flood control projects, applying to cosplete water sheds from the very crest of the ridges down across the slopes to the banks of streaas and thence to their months. These are n0t engineering projects or forestry projects or cropping projects or soils projects or extension projects, but a combination of these, with other specialised activities where needed, operated conjointly with such reorganization of farm procedure as the character of the land indicates as being nec essary. This procedure is based on the best information in the possession of scien tific agriculturists: -the agronomist. Forester, range specialist, soil specialist, erosion specialist. Agricultural engineer, economist, extension specialist, game specialist, geographer and others. It is the application of accumulated_knowledge pertaining to the great multiplicity of variables affecting the three-phase process of absorption. Runoff and erosion, employed not as single uncoordinated implements of attack. But collectively, according to the needs and adaptability of the land, in a codbination of integrated control measures, to be suppleaented where necessary by new information accruing from the experience of combat. 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 t