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HOW CARELESSNESS COST THIS COUNTRY BILLIONS OF DOL¬ 
LARS—81 OF 102 ILLINOIS COUNTIES PRACTICALLY WORTH¬ 
LESS FOR FARMING—MANY OTHER STATES NO BETTER OFF. 
HAS YOUR STATE BEEN HIT? 
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The map of Illinois made by the Dept, of 
Agriculture, illustrates how owners of the 
highest-priced farmland in the United States, 
through carelessness, allowed the top soil in 
81 of 102 counties to wash downstream, which 
would have produced billions of dollars of 
grain and millions of dollars of taxes, leaving 
their land practically worthless for farming. 
Joseph Medill, Editor, CHICAGO TRIBUNE 
for. aw this in 1860 and advised farmers to 
plant, trees which would have saved top soil, 
requiring over 400 years to build up one inch. 
As Illinois has no state nursery for supply¬ 
ing farmers with trees, there are 3,500,000 
acres of idle land in the south part of the 
state with millions of stumps up to 5 ft. in 
diameter which would produce billions of 
tree;?, lumber for future generations and save 
part of $28,000,000 paid for freight on lumber 
shipped into the State in one year. 
The State Forester is not to blame for being 
unable to supply farmers with trees for pro¬ 
tecting their land. If he had his way, 50 mil¬ 
lion would be planted yearly. Nor are farmers 
who have no state nursery to buy trees from 
to blame. 
So many raised on farms who go to the 
cities soon forget the old home. They fail to 
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realize that conditions have changed in many 
countries since the World War. Some still 
have an idea if it is hogs, corn, wheaVor cot¬ 
ton, it refers to the “UNITED STATES.” 
Our engineers and experts in other lines 
who found themselves without a position at 
the close of the War are now in many foreign 
countries teaching farmers and manufacturers 
how business is carried on here. 
Today expert engineers, farmers, stock 
raisers and cotton growers from the United 
States employed by the Russian Government 
are opening up millions of acres of wheat and 
cotton land with tractor gang plows as far 
as one can see, as shown in CHICAGO DAILY 
NEWS recently. The Gagant Farm contains 
375,000 acres. The Verblud Farm, 277,000 and 
there are many others. Cheap labor under the 
supervision of American experts with modern 
machinery and land producing more on one 
acre than our eroded land will on 3 eventually 
will supply our former markets unless we sell 
as cheap as they do—“ASIA” Magazine, Jan¬ 
uary, 1934. 
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Russia, from 1923 to 1930, bought $263,- 
000,000 worth of American cotton, She now 
raises her own. 
The article in NATIONAL REPUBLIC tell¬ 
ing about 5 million bushels of Rye RAISED 
ON LAND FARMED FOR CENTURIES in 
far-away Balkans shipped to this country and 
millions more to come, every bushel of which 
should be raised here, is only a starter unless 
American farmers build up their land and 
produce as cheap as they do- 
How many who read the recent article in 
GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE on the great 
wheat fields now being opened up with our 
farm machinery and cheap labor in Argentine 
thought of it again or what it will mean when 
they commence to ship cotton ? 
While traveling through northern India 
where they have many methods of irrigation, 
I learned British engineers inside of 2 years 
would complete the great Sukker Dam, one of 
the largest in the world, costing $120,000,000, 
with 4500 miles of canals—2 larger than Suez 
—discharging 1,500,000 cu. ft. of water per 
second, irrigating 6,500,000 acres of what was 
worthless land, giving employment to 2,500,- 
000 people, few of whom ever earned over 10 
cents per day- 
The NEW YORK TIMES tells us 1,500,000 
tons of wheat (almost 50 million bushel), 
600,000 bales of cotton, 500,000 tons of rice, 
120,000 tons of oilseed and 300,000 tons of 
najtive food were produced the first year. 
The raising of the 7600 foot Assuan Dam on 
the Nile to 165 ft. for controlling the flood- 
waters from Abyssinia and Uganda, creating 
a lake 187 miles long, gained 1,408,000 acres 
of the best bottom farmland from the Dam to 
the Meditteranean and in some sections 3 
crops are now raised yearly where they raised 
only one before. They are waking up all over 
the World. 
Italy this year for the first time raised what 
wheat they will require. 
John Maynard Keynes, British Economist 
who knows Americans have allowed their 
farms to run down, said: “America will lose 
her export wheat and cotton markets.” 
Had tree planting been taught in our 
schools as they do in Europe no doubt many 
of the 2,000 schools now closed would be open 
and thousands of teachers drawing pay. 
No one knows better than those connected with 
schools that farmers who plow, plant, furnish 
seed and harvest 80 acres for less crops than 
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