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Soil Conservation Service 



BETTER WAYS OF SCRATCHING THE EARTH 



The improvements in agriculture since the abolition of slavery have exceeded all the 

 improvements made in over two thousand years before. Fifty years after Thomas 

 Jefferson proposed a metal plow and the common school, we were still using wooden 

 plows generally and were just thinking of starting common schools for all 



