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Soil surveys aid farming and city planning nationwide
A concluding feature outlines how soil surveys support farmers ranchers and foresters and extend to appraisers developers engineers and urban planners. It notes private ownership of farmland about 4 000 000 owners and the Soil Conservation Service provides technical help while counties share mapping costs and hire soil scientists for public use.
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Soil Conservation Service
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Virginia Highway Department
Virginia Agriculture Experiment Stations