THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



Naturally, conditions grew worse in subse- 

 quent years, and the wail about " no money 

 in farming " was taken up by the younger 

 generation as an excuse for deserting their 

 holdings. The influx of country youths to 

 city offices and stores commenced. The in- 

 creasing number of abandoned farms started 

 the Government on a course of investigation. 

 Soils were analyzed by experts, experiments 

 were tried, and many beneficial facts discov- 

 ered which, when taken into general use, will 

 assuredly restore fertility to the fields made 

 barren by man's ignorance of nature's laws. 



But there! What's the use of railing at the 

 past? Our wonderful improvements of to-day 

 and to-morrow will, in all probability, be re- 

 garded as pitifully primitive one hundred years 

 hence, and, after all, the farmer has been no 

 more carelessly profligate with the soil's pow- 

 ers than the city man with his mind and body. 

 Nature's laws are virtually the same for all 

 living things. Exercise, rest, food, drink, and 

 air are all equally essential; excess or insuf- 



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