Food at the Grass Roots: The Nation's Stake in Soil Minerals, Volume 25 |
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Page 22 - To Improve the navigability and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River; to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands In the Tennessee Valley; to provide for the agricultural and industrial development of said valley; to provide for the national defense by the creation of a corporation for the operation of Government properties at and near Muscle Shoals In the State of Alabama, and for other purposes.
Page v - It is clear that the Muscle Shoals development is but a small part of the potential public usefulness of the entire Tennessee River. Such use, if envisioned in its entirety, transcends mere power development; it enters the wide fields of flood control, soil erosion, afforestation, elimination from agricultural use of marginal land, and distribution and diversification of industry.
Page 55 - Meyer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 18 - The recent development of the application of water power to the production of electricity available for use at considerable distances has revealed an element of substantial value in streams which the Government is or is...
Page 47 - Inasmuch as phosphorus is the key element in the conservation of soil fertility, the correct use of an adequate supply of phosphatic fertilizer is fundamental to national welfare. The scope of the problem of supply is broad. Indications are that at least 80 percent of the soils of the United States are now deficient in phosphorus.
Page 96 - During the 9-year period between 1935 and 1943 the consumption of commercial fertilizers in the United States as a whole increased 68 percent. In the State of Tennessee, where TVA has conducted more test demonstrations than in any other State, the increase was 139 percent.
Page 95 - The research on susceptibility of jute to spontaneous heating and ignition, conducted in cooperation with the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils of the Department of Agriculture and a committee of the Marine Underwriters, was completed.
Page 42 - That the experimental and demonstration work and facilities of the Tennessee Valley Authority as to fertilization be continued. 4. That the program of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in furnishing concentrated phosphate fertilizer to farmers in lieu of benefit payments, be continued, with provision made for meeting the increased demands of farmers for this product. 5. That a plant for experimental, educational, and demonstration purposes be established in the vicinity of the vast western...
Page 32 - It is entirely probable," writes Dr. Beeson, "that the value of a minimum diet of protective foods may be reduced significantly below the minimum requirement through the use of inferior foods. * * * The problem is intensified because of the location of our large cities and of our truck farms that supply these cities with food. Most of our large cities are located on the well-leached podzols and podzolic soils that are acid in reaction and low in the bases (soil minerals).
Page 28 - PjOs content of the forage being frequently only a third as much as in good soils. Another reason is the shocking fact that in the past, India has regularly exported about a hundred times as much minerals, in the form of bones, as she has imported in the form of fertilizers.