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eral or state agricultural agencies in the county. These commit' 

 tees work out a plan for the use of land in their own county. It 

 is expected that they will work out problems of crop adjustment, 

 back taxes, tenancy, forestation, erosion control, and so on. 



In each state a State Agricultural Planning Committee is 

 created to unify the plans of the various county planning com" 

 mittees. The State Committee consists of the various state and 

 federal land-use officials plus farmers who represent the various 

 types of farming carried on in the state. 



If there should be a regional planning committee in that 

 area, the plan would go to it for further revision and sugges' 

 tions. In the Great Plains Region, for example, there is a com' 

 mittee for the Southern Great Plains and another for the 

 Northern Great Plains. These groups are made up of federal 

 and state planning officials who work out a unified plan for 

 the region. 



The Bureau of Agricultural Economics is the cap'Stone on 

 this whole structure. Here the plans from all over the country 

 are collected and studied. It is the job of the Bureau to see that 

 the plans all fit together. This means that crop production goals, 

 erosion control measures, probable markets for crops, and so 

 on, do not conflict. Obviously planning would be a failure if 

 one section of the country was planning to improve land for 

 greater wheat production while the rest of the country was 

 suffering from a glut of wheat. 



In skeleton form this whole complicated combination of 

 agencies which tries to plan the use of land amounts to this. 

 On the one hand, there are the federal and state agencies all 

 working to promote better principles and methods of land use 

 and unified by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in the 

 Department of Agriculture. On the other hand, there are the 

 county agricultural committees and the state and regional 

 committees above them, which translate these principles as 



