Lanterna Rally

Author: United States Department Of Agriculture

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780260879523

Excerpt from Fact Book of U. S. Agriculture In the 50 States there are nearly billion acres of land. About 80 percent of it, including the forest land, can be used for agriculture. Without conservation measures, large amounts of topsoil and sometimes acres and square miles of land can be lost to the sea. Improperly used, land becomes scarred and barren. In theory, however, the four basic resources of agricultural land - soil, water, grass, and forests - are endlessly renewable. With the means and methods of production based on the knowledge now at hand, land can be used and replenished indefinitely. More than 60 percent of the land area in the 50 States is privately owned. All u.s. Citizens share in the Federal ownership of a third of the Nation's land area. Federally owned land is used for timber, grazing, mineral development, parks, national monuments, wilderness and primitive areas, and other public purposes. National Forests and Grasslands total 186 million acres. The people, through State and local governments, share also in the ownership of about another 5 percent of the land area of the United States. 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.