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Show 317 to carry out preventive measures, directing him to establish the Soil Conservation Service to exercise certain powers conferred on him under the statute.9 To this legislation, provisions were added in 1936 which in sum constitute the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, one purpose of which Congress declared to be:10 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. In addition, the 1938 and 1944 Flood Control Acts provide that: n Federal investigations of watersheds and measures for run-off and waterflow retardation and soil-erosion pre- vention on watersheds shall be under the jurisdiction of and shall be prosecuted by the Department of Agricul- ture under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, except as otherwise provided by Act of Congress. Employing the foregoing authority and acting through con- servation districts, the Soil Conservation Service makes tech- nical assistance available to individual farmers so that they may carry out drainage operations on their lands.12 Moreover, direct financial assistance for drainage work is furnished to farmers by the Production and Marketing Administration.13 This latter aid is a part of the Agricultural Conservation Pro- gram, which is entirely separate from the program of the Soil Conservation Service though both are authorized by the 1936 Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.14 'Id.; § 5, 49 Stat. 164,16 U. S. C. 590e. 10§7(a), as added by Act of February 29, 1936, § 1, 49 Stat 1148, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 590g(a). 11 Act of June 28,1938, § 1, 52 Stat. 1215, see 33 U. S. C. 701b. Repeated in Act of December 22, 1944, § 2, 58 Stat. 887, 889, 33 U. S. 0. 701a-l. u 7 C. F. R. 600.1; Report of the Chief of the Son. Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture (1949). 18 7 O. F. R. 701.3. "Act of April 27, 1935, 49 Stat. 163, as amended by Act of February 29, 1936, 49 Stat. 1148, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 590a-590q. See also 7 C. F. R. ch. VI and ch. VII. |