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Show "Just as . with bodily diseases such as cancer or tuberculosis which can be cured only in the early stages, so it is with soils built up through the' ages. Once ravished beyond a -certain point, they are incapable of restoration except by nature's slow processes, which are measured not in tens, but in thousands of pears. Leaving out all "if'ss," and's and but's," running the risk of being precise in an area where precision may have no place, I believe that at our present rate of soil erosion, this country of ours has left to it less than a century of virile existence. We have two decades at the most to plan our campaign." cam-paign." Moris L. Cooke |