justified by assuming potential agricultural development as indi-
cated by the study, TVA allocated additional funds to the Exten-
sion Service for personnel to carry out an expanded agricultural de-
velopment program in the trade area of the town.
The agricultural development program was based on the study,
which in turn was based on demonstrated results obtained through
collaboration between TVA and the Extension Service in the test-
demonstration program. In addition to providing an example of how
TVA made use of extension education in its water use and control
activities, the Big Sandy story illustrates the relationship between
problems stemming from water use and control on the main channels
and test-demonstration work in agricultural development. During
and for several years following the construction period, test-demon-
stration work was intensified in seriously affected communities such
as Big Sandy in order to speed up agricultural adjustments.
EXAMPLE OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION
WITH WATER USE AND CONTROL
Basic in the work on water use and control in the Tennessee
Valley are the policies and principles set forth in the “Contract
for Joint Program of Agricultural Development and Watershed
Protection Through Improved Fertilization’’ between TVA and the
land-grant colleges. While the use of fertilizers is emphasized, it is
only one of several measures included in a broad program of water-
shed protection and agricultural development. The following excerpt
from the contract explains the basic concept in this broad program:
Whereas, in promoting the further purpose stated in said Act (the Ten-
nessee Valley Authority Act of 1933) respecting the improvement of naviga-
tion in the Tennessee River and the control of destructive flood waters in
the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers, Authority finds both necessary and
appropriate thereto the adoption of broad measures to reduce the run-off of
soil and water in agricultural areas now resulting in the destructive silting of
stream channels and navigation facilities therein, and the concentration of
flood waters, which measures of watershed protection are со-extensive with
those of agricultural development through the use of improved soil tillage,
improved crops and cropping systems, new forms of plant foods, and im-
proved methods of fertilization; . . .
Under this master contract and supplementary projects, educa-
tional work has been concentrated on the following: (1) the use of
fertilizers in establishing and maintaining soil-protecting crops, (2)
mechanical measures of water control and soil conservation, (3)
reforestation and woodland management, and (4) improvement of
farm income in systems of farming consistent with watershed pro-
tection. These component factors in watershed protection and agri-
cultural development have been brought into optimum relation-
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