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IN an article entitled “Soil Conservation in Tropical Africa” (NATURE, 141, 268–270 ; Feb. 12, 1938), Dr. L. Dudley Stamp described a basin type of cultivation that is in practice in Northern Nigeria. In conclusion he states, “If America could invent a plough which will imitate the Nigerian system by replacing the long furrow by a series of isolated elongated basins, one at least of her major problems in the dry lands of the Middle West might be solved”. Actually, the principle of basin cultivation described by Dr.Dudley Stamp has been the subject of experimentation in the United States for the last ten years, and to-day several basin cultivators are on the market and in use by farmers in various parts of the country.
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OLSON, L. Basin Cultivation in the United States. Nature 141, 858–860 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141858a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141858a0