The first exposition of conservation and its builders; an official history of the National conservation exposition, held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of its forerunners, the Appalachian expositions of 1910-11, embracing a review of the conservation movement in the United States from its inception to the present time . ^<. JfW .CT--.*:* Ganli-ns are maintained for neighijurliood boys. Ground and -eed is firrtiishecl free. Tlie lio\s do the ;under the direction of an expert gardener. All the\- raise is their own, to dispose of as they see fit. Theseboys have organized a stock Company,
The first exposition of conservation and its builders; an official history of the National conservation exposition, held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of its forerunners, the Appalachian expositions of 1910-11, embracing a review of the conservation movement in the United States from its inception to the present time . ^<. JfW .CT--.*:* Ganli-ns are maintained for neighijurliood boys. Ground and -eed is firrtiishecl free. Tlie lio\s do the ;under the direction of an expert gardener. All the\- raise is their own, to dispose of as they see fit. Theseboys have organized a stock Company, under the laws of Ohio. 272 THE FIRST EXPOS IT lOX OF COXSERVATION but for a lifetime; not the efficiency ofthe tool or the machine—the thing—but of the man and the woman, or thewoikers themselves. What the Company is doing in itswelfare and hygiene work is the resultof long years of investigation and ex-perience. It is a development whichstarted a generation ago, when the id(>awas new and gt^nerally unknown. It iseven now in the process of develop-ment, as the Company believes that thegrowth of this branch of the conserva-tion movement will be far greater inthe future than it has been in the past. The Object of the Exhibit The exhibit was in no w^ay a planfor adveitising the product of the Com-pany. Its purpose
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