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Show tion that deserves the support ' of all because it affects the welfare wel-fare of the whole social order. The Milford District is actively ac-tively engaged in soil conservation conserva-tion by assisting cooperators in i land leveling, concrete irrigation irriga-tion structures, pasture planting, and a number of other conserva tion practices. Farmers should contact the County Agent, District Supervisors, Super-visors, and the Soil Conservation Conserva-tion Service to get information and technical assistance on their farms. Call your County Agent or local supervisor about conservation conser-vation programs on your farm. REVOLUTION ON THE LAND Centuries hence when historians histor-ians assay the trends of ths twentieth century it is possible that more lines will be written regarding the movement for soil conservation than about many of the contemporary problems that loom so large today. As a nation, we are begmning to realize that productive land is different from the other natural resources. Soil is a resource that must be maintained main-tained and used simultaneously. At the recent Princeton University Univer-sity Bi-centennial Conference H H Bennet, Chief of Soil Conservation Conser-vation Service, presented a challenging chal-lenging paper that emphasized facts we have too frequently ignored. He said: "Productive" land is much more limited than commonly com-monly has been supposed. It is not permanent. Once the fertile topsoil is washed or blown away, it cannot be restored or replaced m any practical way for generations. genera-tions. There are no undiscovered reserves of productive land of any substantial area. We cannot dig deeper into the earth and find new productive soil. We must keep what we have or do without, for when soil has been washed or blown away into the oceans it is not recoverable. Productive land is the only natural resource without which we cannot live. To protect our source of foodthen the only sensible, practical thing to do is to protect the productive land Urban dwellers, now representing repre-senting 80 percent of our 140,-000,000 140,-000,000 population, have a false sense of security in the news items they read regarding the mechanization of our farms. It is true that corn-pickers, combines, com-bines, cotton-pickers, hay-balers, tractors and milking machines have greatly increased production produc-tion per man on the farms, but if the soil is not maintained in fertility and humus, the law of diminishing returns will in evitably assert itself. When our nation was young and the population pop-ulation smaller, we could stand a degree of waste. But now the situation is different. There is no virgin soil to be exploited; we can no longer mine fertility and humus.. The national welfare requires re-quires reforestation of watersheds, water-sheds, control of floods, and the return to grassland of vast stretches. Through Soil Conservation Conser-vation Districts and enlightened farming, we are starting a revolution revo-lution on the land. It's a revolu- |