Soil Conservation in a Hungry World

OIL conservation is to my mind the most significant agricultural development of the present time. It has proved itself the only practical way by which any real permanency can be achieved for our cultivated land. Nations and civilizations have declined, even perished, as a result of misuse, neglect, and erosion of the land. And the almost world-wide shortage of food today is to a large extent to be explained by impoverishment of the soil. Misuse and neglect of land have .brought mankind to the forks of the road-not to the crossroads, but to the forks, where there are only two ways to go, one right, the other wrong. From now on, unless we go the right way, moving rapidly, effectively, and persistently with the job of soil conservation, we shall be faced with increasingly serious difficulties in providing food enough for the world's people. Greater longevity through advance of medical science and a resultant mounting world population coupled with a decreasing supply of productive land can finally defeat mankind. As never before, statesmanship is needed-fearless, understanding, determined leadership that will go ahead before it is too late

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