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 . -our master; Tf you can think and no{ make thoughts your aim. If you can meet with triumiih and disaster And treat those two impisters just the same. If you can bear to hear the truth youve .spoken Twisted by knaves to make a traj) for fools. Or watch the things you gave your
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 . -our master; Tf you can think and no{ make thoughts your aim. If you can meet with triumiih and disaster And treat those two impisters just the same. If you can bear to hear the truth youve .spoken Twisted by knaves to make a traj) for fools. Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken. And stco]! ;md build em up with worn-out tools. If you can talk with crowds and keep your iue Orwalk with King^, nor lo-e the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men couiU with you, but none loo nnich ; If you can fill the unforgiving minute \\ith sixty seconds worth of distance run. Yours is the earth and everything thats in it. And, which is more, \oull be a Man, my FAIRFAX HARRISON, PRESIDENT SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY CONSERVATION OF SOUTHERN SOILS [>Y FairiAx Harrison*. There is, I believe, no pliasc of the conserwition movement so important to ourSouthern states as is that of soil conservation. It is essential, not onlv to ourcontinued agricultural prosperity, but also in a large measure to the developmentof our manufacturing and commercial interests; for the best market that a South-ern manufacturer or merchant can have is that i)rovided by a prosperous farmingcommunity. Fortunatelv soil conservation does not re()uire withdrawal of the soils fromuse. The old saving that one cannot eat his cake and have it too does not apply tothe use of the soils. On the contrary, soil fertility may best be maintained and builtup by a system of farming that will vield the largest present returns. For proofof this it is not necessarv for us to refer to the world-known experimental farm atRothamsted, England, where for more than fi
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