Question

To control the effects of the Dust Bowl, the state of Texas paid farmers to do which of the following?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.
(3 points)
build ponds and reservoirs

plant different crops

use more powerful tractors

plant rows of trees to serve as windbreaks

Answer 1

The correct option is: "plant rows of trees to serve as windbreaks"

The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, passed in 1936, offered payments to farmers for transforming agricultural land with loss of soil into crops of legumes and grasses that promote soil conservation, and for implementing good agricultural practices in pastures. Measures that would have yielded more benefits if they had been adopted before the start of the drought cycle. The planting of more than 200 million trees from Canada to Abilene (Texas) was another measure taken by the New Deal administration.

Answer 2

Plant rows of trees to serve as windbreaks

Under President Roosevelt, he ordered the Civilian Conservation Corps to Plant 200 Million Trees from Canada to Abilene, Texas to serve as windbreaks.

In addition to this, a project was done called Coon Creek Watershed Project in Southwestern Wisconsin by Hugh Hammond Bennett. It is a campaign for soil conservation.

They also educate farmers on soil conservation, anti-erosion technique, adopt planting and contour plowing method, crop rotation, strip farming, terracing