MALADJUSTMENTS IN LAND USE 



Contents 



Page 

 Preface iii 



Section I. Desirable Major Land Use Adjustments And Their Regional Distribution 1 



Introduction — Geographic investigation of desirable land use adjustments — Land use problem 

 regions and adjustments — Eastern Higliland Regions — Southeastern Hilly Cotton and Tobacco Re- 

 gion — Cut-Over Regions — The Arid and Semi-arid Regions — Miscellaneous agricultural regions — 

 Nonproblem regions having little agriculture. 



Section II. Conditions of Areas In AMiich. Farm Retirement Is Proposed 13 



Introduction — Location and amount of land to be retired — General character of social and economic 

 conditions — .Vnalysis of condition.^ liy regions — Southeastern Highland.s — Southern Highlands and their 

 margins — Southeastern Hilly Cotton and Tobacco Region — Great Lakes Cut-Over Region — Atlantic and 

 Gulf Cut-Over Region — Pacific Forest and Cut-Over Region — The Western Great Plains — California 

 Valleys and Foothills — The Columbia Basin — ^Arid Grazing and Irrigation Region — Northeastern .Agri- 

 cultural Region — Central Agricultural Region — Gulf Coast Prairies — Mississippi Delta Region — 

 Southeastern Middle Coa.stal Plain — Western Gulf Coastal Plain — Nonproblem regions containing 

 little agriculture. 



Section III. The Program lor Retirement of Poor Farm Laml 48 



The current land program — The long-time program. 



Section IV. Drought Frequency 51 



Section V. Rural-Urban Migration in Relation to Land Quality 53 



SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT OF THE LAND PLANNING COMMITTEE 



