2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 278.010. — Provisions of federal soil conservation and allotment act accepted.

278.010. 1. In order to cooperate with the federal government in bringing to the farm people of Missouri the full benefits of an act by the Congress of the United States, approved February 29, 1936, and generally known as "The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act" (16 U.S.C.A. { 590h) the policy and purposes of which are set forth in section 7(a) of the act as follows:

(1) Preservation and improvement of soil fertility;

(2) Promotion of the economic use and conservation of land;

(3) Diminution of exploitation and wasteful and unscientific use of national soil resources;

(4) The protection of rivers and harbors against the results of soil erosion in aid of maintaining the navigability of waters and water courses and in aid of flood control; and

(5) Reestablishment, at as rapid a rate as the secretary of agriculture determines to be practicable and in the general public interest, of the ratio between the purchasing power of the net income per person on farms and that of the income per person not on farms that prevailed during the five year period, August, 1909--July, 1914, inclusive, as determined from statistics available in the United States Department of Agriculture, and the maintenance of such ratio.

2. The state of Missouri through its legislature hereby accepts the provisions and requirements of said act.

(RSMo 1939 § 14425)