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tion, accelerated erosion, injury to water supplies, and 

 other difficulties. The passage of the Taylor Grazing 

 Act is expected to overcome many of the difficulties 

 arising from unregulated use of the range, through es- 

 tablishment of grazing districts in wliich grazing will 

 be adjusted to the range resources. The problems of 

 range grazing are common to much of the arid regions 

 of the Great Basin and the Southwest, with somewhat 

 less important occurrence in the Great Plains. Injuri- 

 ous use of privately owned range land has been re- 

 ported in Texas, CaUfornia, Idaho, and elsewhere. 



6. Improving Drainage, Flood Control, or Water Sup- 

 ply to Permit the Continuar^ce of Economic Agriculture 

 on Existing Farms. — It is occasionally true that the 

 provision of some improvement in drainage, in pro- 

 tection from flood, or in water supply, requiring col- 

 lective action for its accom])lisl)ment, will remedy a 

 condition of distress on farms. This type of adjust- 

 ment is needed in widely separated local areas, but is 

 not characteristically required in any broad region. It 

 is reported as desirable largely in the form of unprove- 

 Mients in dndnage in tbe Southern and Ctmtral States, 

 and in the improvement of water supply and/or draui- 

 age In some of the Western States. 



This adjustment should not be confused, on the one 

 hand, \nth the provision of works to bring new farms 



into existence, or, on the other hand, with the provision 

 of improvements by the individual farmer on and solely 

 for the benefit of his o\m farm. It is proposed only in 

 those cases where the lack of an improvement, which can 

 not be effectuated by individual action, stands between 

 desirable agriculture and imdesirable agriculture. 



Land-Use Problem Regions and Adjustments 



Understanding of the major areal differences in land- 

 use problems will be increased if the country be divided 

 into broad regions, each having a characteristic i)attern 

 or association of land-use problems which distinguishes 

 it from adjoining regions, and the land-use adjustments 

 in each be discussed. In this connection, attention is 

 called to figure 2, a map of land-use problem regions. 



Eastern Highland Regions 



Xortheastern Highlands (hilly or stony parts of the 

 New England States, New York, Pennsylvania, New 

 Jersey, and Maryland). Major adjustments advo- 

 cated: (1) Widespread local replacement of crop farm- 

 uig by some other productive land use, (2) institution 

 of constructive management of forest land. 



^Yliile this region still has much uneconomic farming 

 in its hillier, stonier, more remote, or otherwise less- 



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FI0URE2.— Each of these large regions bas a characteristic combination or pattern ofland-u.se problems, which differs in some important respect from that in adjoining regions. 



