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the GREAT WEST the granary of the world ? " And so they build 

 canals and railroads, and bring from the west millions of bushels of 

 grain, and send not one fertilizing atom back to restore the land. 

 And in this way we shall by-and-by make the fertile prairies as 

 barren as some of the worn out farms of Virginia. And thus " the 

 sins of the fathers are visited upon the children, even to the fourth 

 generation ! " 



