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the acre, and the tobacco crop in some years failed 

 to return a profit. My suggestion was to put the 

 best of his land into grafted hickories and black 

 walnuts, and the poorest land into grafted seedless 

 persimmons. One acre treated in this way would 

 yield more income per year than he could get from 

 several acres treated laboriously and with loss of soil 

 in gullies. The trees and grass would hold his land 

 and there would be no trouble from night riders. 



Thousands of square miles of hilly land that are 

 now being gullied as a result of raising meagre crops 

 of annual plants may be put into tree crops and 

 saved. Lands that are level or moderately rolling 

 are the only ones in this country that we can afford 

 to devote to crops of annual plants. The loss of 

 land in hilly districts relates not only to the people of 

 to-day but to the generations of to-morrow. 



Professor F. K. Moulton in a paper read at the 

 meeting of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science in 1920 is quoted as saying 

 that the intelligence of man to-day compared with 

 what it will probably be in future years is in the 

 same ratio as that of a toad when compared with our 

 present development. He is doubtless right. We 

 are toads in our management of land and we can- 

 not hop over our gullies because there is no one in 

 authority to oblige us to make larger incomes and to 

 desist from running our soil down stream. 



Professor J. Russell Smith in his book entitled 

 "The World's Food Resources" states that "great 

 is the contrast between these poor uncomfortable, 



