Show what is your intention A are e you a land owner owners if so go what is 13 you your r intention with regard to the land that you owna o 09 9 do you propose to regard it mer merely 7 I 1 y a as a business investment and to ext extract bract from it every possible dollar of pro fit hta we have known farmers whose treatment of their land was calculated to leave the impression that the were the ones for whom it was on gina ly created and that when they should cease to need it no other us use would ever eter be made of it on the other hand there are men ind and meal many of atheni them who while scriv 1 ng ag to make their land as reproductive productive n j possible pos sibe have yet an ey eie a to the future owners every farmer when he takes harge charge of a piece of ground should frame rame this simple resolution 1 I hereby resolve that yh whether ether my occupancy of this land be long or short I 1 will use every means at my command to leave it more productive than when I 1 found it if this were here the guiding principle of every farmers life what a bles blea sed aed and productive country ours would become in a few generations of time and why by not nota every farmer who ho has ever work ed with impoverished soil knows how d discouraging encouraging and heart sickening is the struggle and ee y fa mer who has honest honestly I 1 y endeavored to improve his land to a P point of real productiveness know h how ew amu gratifying dying it is to see his I 1 yield beld mount upward from year to year and to feel that th at as the seasons go by y he is adding sub stani 4 11 y t to 0 th the e wealth of this country in for a after ft er all 11 is s said land is the great tangible as set of the earth the man who ho causes to bladed blade of grass to grow where only one was growing is a benefactor of man kind the man who so depletes his soil that only one blade will grow where two formerly grew frew is a thief hard words yes but true no man inan has a right to impoverish the soil even if he be does to hold lj a title deed to it at best it is only his hie for a season when hen it must pass on a to another rightful owner and what about the rights of that next owners owner and the next and the next when you pursue a policy that thai impoverishes your land it goes to your son at 0 your o or demise poorer than when you received it have you in that event been honest with your sona he had a right to receive from you what you re calved cei red certain jy no in lesa will the farmers farmer of america rob the unborn generations or will the leave for them the legacy of a bet I 1 ter ler lead land than th they ey themselves inner inner i itsu it is a a personal question i each individual must answer ti for blui himself self |