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Every particle of soil that a fanner in IVmimsvIn aula. Miniiesota, 

 or Montana allows to wash from his farm event ually raises 

 the mud bed of the Mississi[)[)i, h('l[)s to cause llcxtds. taxes 

 the nation to l)uild higher levees. The eleaiinn- ol a w alershed 

 at the headwaters of the ()hio <»r Missouri is the i)usiness of 

 every one whose spring" or well iiins dry l)el(»\\ it (»r whose 



Fui. 28. Deforested slope, Noitli C";u«iliiia. sliowiiitr erosi<jii 

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home is flooded farther down the ri\t'i's, and als(» ol e\erv one 

 who is ta\e(l or who is ealle(l upon to eoutrihute or to suffer 

 in sympathy for the eonnuou loss. 



Solution of problem, liy the ade(|uait' [)lantin^4- of trees t>n 

 every hill and mountain side and aloii-- every o;ully and ravine, 

 the rootlets of whieh will hind the st)il and liller the water as 

 it falls, we slumld have the water leaving eveiy farm clear as 

 crystal from perennial springs, ^^lst national projects are 



