Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
The Farmers RObber Waste=Tariff
And KnOXville'S Conservation Show
Many of How Save How Employ
Protect Health and Happiness Being Wonderfully
trayed at National Exposition.
By CHARLES A. wHITTLE.
Georgta state College of Agriculture.


who have invested their dollars that
they Will get their money back and
some more. But. nevertheless, the
managers Of the exposition have
brought out, in the exhibits the first
and most comprehensive record Of
the spirit and works OF conservation
lists Of this country.
The lessons which the farmer can
get from the conservation exposition
are lessons which every one can get
In general and then the particular
lessons Of how the soil fertility can
be saved, how his energy can be best
applied. how his health can be pre-
served. his roads be best constructed
and the various ways by which tine
farmers resources can not only be
made to go furthest for present re-
ward but for future generations.
Land Building Has Story.
Perhaps no more important lesson
can be found at the exposition. for
tho farmer Of the uplands Of the
South, than that which Is revealed
In the Land Building and 20 wildly
and plainly portrayed, which tells the
farmer of the damage of erosion and
how II can be stayed
The loss OF soil by the wash OF the
rains Is revealed on q miniature
mountain side where rain is falling
from an lmprovised cloud Of the
shower bath design. The water runs
in miniature gullies and runs muddy
to the miniature lake below. Adjoin-
ing this miniature mountain is an
other. capped with luxuriant forest
Its field slopes clothed IN grass.
Here the shower is falling even
more copiously but the water reaches
the foot OF tho mountain. carrying
away no soil, maintaining it's foun-
tain clearness and resting placidly in
the Piedmont lake.
The lesson is forests and grass on
the slopes If the land is to be cul-
tivated in crops, then winter cover
crop and always a vegetation to turn
the moisture downward and keep II
from shedding to the gullles and away
TO the streams.
How to keep the forests producing
is a vital lesson for the farmer with
a wood lot. Whether there Is need
for timber n for lumber. to meet
immediate needs or not the Idea Is
impressed that tho true conserva ton
list 10 a proviter for his future gen
erations.
How the true forester $ getting the
best from his forest and maintaining
It's highest usefulness is presented i'm
numerous illustrations, so that, if,
after seeing. a farmer would continue
to destroy and neglect. he win have
grlevous sins to account for in thu
judgment dav. perhaps IN time but
certainly sometime, or else what
travesty on Justice.
The fact IL that the exposition is
useful chiefly in 1, sailing what great
sinners an have been IN wastefulness,
neglect and imprOyidence. That u
the reason many people are not find
Ing the exposition a 10y secret" from
one end to the other
Idea Gains Strong Hold.
That the conservation idea has
gained strong hold OF the publ,
school system is admirably revealed
I'm numerous exhibitions in the Land
Building: how enterprising high
schools and training schools have
taught the students to DO with their
hands and do exceedingly well. with
skill and even art. To the practical
farmer that kind OF thing does
look rs II education were not dis
iointed from manual effort. that edu-
cation really need not lead a young
man away from the farm.
When II Is observed that some OF
this fine work of the hand and brain
has been wrought in the country high
schools, questions have been started.
no doubt. questions as to why not
one Of these high schools at home.
There IL the consolidated" school
for the country. and what is that?
The more he looks and reads. the
more the farmer is impressed that
by all means Il Is the consolidated
school alone which will solve the
grievous educational problem Of the
rural region. Fewer schools means
better paid teachers. and better paid
teachers means better teachers. In
stead of one teacher trying to teach
eight grades at ten minutes per les
son per class i'm the present one