Section 3: Soil Conservation Soil Damage and Loss – The value of soil is reduced when soil loses its fertility and when topsoil is lost due to erosion – Loss of Fertility Soil that has lost its fertility is said to be exhausted Early in the 1900s in Alabama, a scientists named George Washington Carver developed new crops and farming methods that helped to restore soil fertility in the South Peanuts were one crop that helped make the soil fertile again
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