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8. What is the major use of land in the area in which you live? 

 Is it farming, mining, lumbering, production of water power? 

 Find out when this use began. Is the basic resource upon which 

 your community depends still plentiful? Whether it is or is not, 

 try to find out why. 



DEBATES 



Here are some topics that could be used for debates. 



1. Is the farmer justified in exhausting his soil in order to make 

 a large profit and then move on to new and unspoiled land? 



2. Is commercial farming a better type of farming than sub' 

 sistence farming? 



3. Are low prices and a bad market more of a cause of bad 

 farming than ignorance? 



