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and hedgerows, and in the birds that delight in 

 bushes and trees. It will enable those who live 

 in the country to get far greater pleasure from 

 life than many do at present, and will stimulate 

 them to beautify their homes and take pride in their 

 surroundings, their work, and their free health- 

 ful lives. It will prevent a farmer from renting 

 his field or his barn for a bill-board to advertise 

 someone's pills. It will teach him that he may 

 have, if he will, during each day of his life, that 

 enjoyment in the beauty of the country to which 

 business men of the city look forward as the crown- 

 ing pleasure of their declining years, those years 

 when rheumatism, deafness, and other infirmities 

 frequently prevent one from receiving the full meas- 

 ure of happiness that nature should give. 



It will teach the city dweller, who, to a certain 

 extent, is fond of nature, that it is not the part of 

 wisdom to create beautiful parks and build beauti- 

 ful drives or parkways and then border them with 

 bill-boards. It will teach him to respect the wooded 

 bluffs and hillsides, the springs, streams, river banks 

 and lake shores within the city boundaries, and 

 preserve them with loving care. This apprecia- 

 tion and care will also extend to the suburbs and 



