THE CLAM FARM: 



A CASE OF CONSERVATION 



ur hunger for clams and their pre- 

 sent scarcity have not been the 

 chief factors in the new national 

 movement for the conservation of 

 our natural resources ; nor are the 

 soaring prices of pork and lumber and wheat 

 immediate causes, although they have served to 

 give point and application to the movement. 

 Ours is still a lavishly rich country. We have 

 long had a greed for land, but we have not felt 

 a pang yet of the Old World's land-hunger. 

 Thousands of acres, the stay for thousands of hu- 

 man lives, are still lying as waste places on the 

 very borders of our eastern cities. There is plenty 

 of land yet, plenty of lumber, plenty of food, but 

 there is a very great and growing scarcity of 

 clams. 



Of course the clam might vanish utterly from 

 the earth and be forgotten ; our memory of its 

 juicy, salty, sea-fat flavor might vanish with it ; 



