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ments which the Service made on the land before it was leased, 

 the private owners were able to work out a sound and profitable 

 community of good land use. 



This method of planning is based on a single resource, but 

 it is administered by the users, rather than the government 

 agency which holds title to the land. According to this method, 

 the government protects the land by making the lessors agree 

 to follow certain regulations. The local land owners, on the 

 other hand, are free from any unnecessary harsh control from 

 a central bureau, since they may use the land as they see fit so 

 long as they do not break the regulations which were agreed 

 upon when the lease with the Service was signed. 



This type of land'use planning has been used for some time 

 with mineral lands, but it is only recently that the leasing 

 system has been applied to any great extent on agricultural 

 and range land. 



ECONOMIC LAND'USE PLANNING 



There is one type of control of private resources which has 

 been widely accepted by land users all over the nation. This 

 might be called production or economic planning. The Agricul' 

 tural Adjustment Administration is the major example of this. 

 The Triple A seeks to regulate crop production and prices in 

 two ways: (1) by having the people whose production is to be 

 regulated decide by ballot whether they want regulation, 

 and (2) by the power of the federal government to levy taxes. 

 The taxes provide the money which pays the people for reduc' 

 ing their production. 



The Triple A is planning on a big scale. It is the first real 

 attempt at agricultural planning in the history of the country. 

 It is important to observe that American economic planning be' 

 gan with agriculture. People usually are not ready to accept 

 planning until they feel that there is no other solution. Agricul' 



