States for Canada in any previous year. I know that something like 

 2,000 families moved to Canada from the State of Iowa alone. From 

 personal observation I think a great majority of these families were 

 young married couples, the family usually consisting of the husband 

 and wife; but taking the total number, 163,798, and assuming an 

 average of four in each family, would give 40,950 families that have 

 emigrated from the United States to Canada in a single year. I 

 believe that an allowance of $1,000 to each family is too low. I 

 think $3,000 is too low. As a matter of fact, I think it would con- 

 siderably exceed that amount. But assuming that each family took 

 with them $1,000, it shows that in a single year United States has 

 lost to Canada approximately 41,000 of its best families, and with 

 them $41,000,000 in money. The money does not count very much, 

 but the United States cannot afford to lose that kind of families. 

 (Applause). In the face of these facts, the figures gathered by the 

 Conservation Commission are surprising. They are alarming. These 

 statistics show that there are 16,000 square miles of practically aban- 

 doned farms in New England, New York and the Southeast and 

 Middle-central States. They show that there are in the United States 

 at present 10,000,000 acres of practically abandoned farm land, an 

 area as large as the cultivated part of the Canadian Northwest, or 

 twice the size of the State of Massachusetts. I am glad to see the 

 movement for the conservation of our natural resources being gradu- 

 ally directed to that particular resource which in importance out- 

 weighs all others and that is the conservation of our soil. Husband 

 our coal supply as we will, economize in its use to the last limit, 

 but the day will come when the last ton will have been mined and 

 nothing remain but the empty holes in the ground. 



"Science has demonstrated the possibility of harnessing our great 

 water-powers, and gathering from the atmosphere light, heat and 

 power to such an extent that it seems possible that a complete substitute 

 may be some time found that will make the use of coal for these 

 purposes unnecessary. 



"No substitute has ever been found for the sustenance which 

 humanity has drawn from the bosom of Mother Earth since the dawn 

 of creation; the supply of which must not only be maintained, but 

 must be continually increased and augmented if the human race is 

 to continue to exist. 



"In 1909, for the first time in our history, the United States 

 took second place among the great food-exporting nations of the 

 world. The Republic of Argentine forged to the front, exceeding 



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