Excerpt from Use the Land and Save the Soil The Soil Conservation Service is organized especially to give the most help possible to soil conservation districts. It has an office, usually called a work-unit, in each soil conservation district that has requested aid. In some of the larger districts it has more than one work-unit. A soil conservationist, commonly called a farm planner, is in charge of each work-unit. He may have special assistants; that depends on the amount of work and whether there are some special forestry, engineering, or other problems that require the services of a specialist in that field. The farm planner and his assistants spend most of their time helping farmers develop conservation plans for their entire farms, and [putting the plans into effect. 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.