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CONSERVATION 



reaus concerned have, therefore, wel- beHeved that practically all of it will 



corned this demand, as a reason for do- be in hand by that date. It will then be 



ing these things. abstracted and from it a brief report 



All this information is asked for by will be prepared for submission to the 



October i6. Some of it is already in Commission at its meeting on Decem- 



the hands of the Commission, and it is ber 7. 



A STUDY IN EROSION 



Before these fields were shorn and tilled 



Full to the brim our rivers flowed; 



The melody of waters filled 



The fresh and boundless woods ; 



And torrents dashed, and rivulets play'd, 



And fountains spouted in the shade. 



— Williaiit Cttllen Br\ant 



