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Show Top Soil From our farms and grass lands alone, man-made erosion is moving over three billion tons of soil every year down into our rivers and reservoirs and out to sea. This is the rich topsoil that contains, In minerals and humus, the great reserves of plantfood standing between man and famine. fam-ine. Ward Shephard in "Food or Famine." We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as lifegiving assets to be directed di-rected by wise provision for future fu-ture days. We seek to use our natural resources not as a thing apart but as something that is interwoven with industry, labor, finance, taxation, agriculture, homes, recreation, good citizenship. citizen-ship. The results of this interweaving inter-weaving will have a greater influence in-fluence on the-future American standard of living than all the rest of our economics put together. to-gether. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roos-evelt. Civilization is perched on a three-legged stool water, soil and plants. If any of the supports fails, civilization will topple off. Ollie Fink. Most soils need to be devoted to grasses, at least part of the time, to maintain good granular structure and productivity. Larson and Teller. Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. Un stable is the future of that coun try which has lost its taste for agriculture. If there is one lesson in history which is unmistakable it is that national strength lies very near the soil. Daniel Webster. Conservation does not mean disuse it means wise use. Everyone who wishes to eat three times a day should take a very personal interest in the land and how it is used. M. Graham Netting "The Scientists Bookshelf." |