To carry out and make effective the purposes of this act it is hereby made the duty of the secretary of agriculture to collect from all available sources data and information respecting soil erosion, dust storms and plant or weed blowing and practical methods of preventing or minimizing them by planting or cultivating the soil, with particular reference to the different kinds of planting and types of cultivation most suitable to the respective types of soil in the different parts of the state taking into consideration topography and climatic conditions thereof, and most effective to accomplish the principal purposes of this act, and to transmit such data and information to the respective boards of county commissioners, members of the legislature, the governor, and make the same available to the general public.