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THE RIVERS!
J. N. (Ding) Darling, the famous caftponist, put the case for soil conservation in these memoraible words: “Beefsteak and potatoes, roast duck, ham and egsg, and bread and butter with jam on it, are being washed down our rivers each year in the form of good rich farm topsoil.”
We have long passed the point where we can afford to let this happen. We will have to feed a population which is growing at a dizzy rate from an agricultural acreage which is virtually fixed. That fact imposes a dual obligation: to get maximum production 4rom our land and, at the same time to save and whenever possible improve that land for the needs of the years ahead.
Basically, soil conservation is, not the job of government, even though government agencies are vitally interested and are active participants in the movement. It is the job of the farmer—individually, and collectively with his neighbors. And he hafs no lack of aids.1 Agricultural colleges, the soil conservation service, the forest service, farm equipment manufacturers, government bureaus and others offer booklet's and' other ma= terials dealing graphically and constructively with the problem. Modern farm machinery provides an efficient, low-cost means of doing the actual, work.
Every time an acre of farmland is properly and scientifically conserved, the whole country is permanently enriched. ?
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