Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
The Farmers RObber Waste=Tariff
And KnOxVille'S Conservation Show
Many of How Save Employ Resources
Protect Health and Happiness Are Being Wonderfully
trayed at National Exposition.
By CHARLES A. WHITTLE.
Georgia State College Of AOrtoultUrs.

who have invested their dollars that
they win 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 tho 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 the
farmers resources can not only be
made TO go furthest for present re-
ward bur for future generations.
Land Building Has Story.
Perhaps no more important lesson
can be found at the exposition, for
the farmer OF the uplands OF the
South, than that which 10 revealed
in the Land Building and 30 wildly
and plainly portrayed, which tells the
farmer Of the damage of erosion and
how It can be stayed.
The loss of soil by tho wash of the
rains Is revealed on miniature
mountain side where rain is falling
from an improvised cloud of the
shower bath design. The water runs
in miniature gullies and runs muddy
TO the miniature lake below. Adioin-
ing this miniature mountain is an
other, capped with a luxuriant forest,
It's field slopes clothed in grass.
Here the shower is falling even
more copiously, but the winter reaches
tho foot OF the mountain, carrying
away no soil. maintaining its foun-
tain clearness and resting plaoidly In
the Piedmont lake
The lesson is forests and grass on
the slopes. II the land is to be cul-
tivated in crops, then winter cover
crop and always vegetation to turn
the moisture downward and keep ii
from shedding TO the gullies and away
to the streams.
How 10 keep the forests producing
Is a vital lesson for the farmer with
a wood lot. Whether there Is need
for timber At for lumber. to meet
Immediate needs or not the idea Is
impressed that the true conservation
list In a provlder for his future gem
erations.
How the true forester is getting the
best from his forest and maintaining
its highest usefulness is presented In
numerous Illustrations, 80 that, II,
after seeing, farmer would continue
to destroy and neglect, he will have
grievous sins to account for in the
judgment day, perhaps In time, but
certainly sometime, or else what a
travesty on justice.
The fact is that the exposition Is
useful chiefly in revealing what great
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neglect and improvidence That is
the reason many people are not find
ing the exposition a Joy secret" from
one end to the other.
Idea Gains Strong Hold.
That the conservation idea has
gained strong hold OF the public
school system l. admirably revealed
IN numerous exhibitions In the Land
Building; how enterprisinE high
schools and training schools have
taught the students to do with their
hands. and do exceedingly we'll, with
skill and even art. To the practical
farmer that kind OF thing does
look as II education we're not dis
jointed from manual effort, that edu-
cation really need not lead a young
man away from the farm.
When It 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 Is the consolidated" school
for the country, and what 10 that?
The more he looks and reads. the
more the farmer Is impressed that
by all means It is the consolidated
school alone which win 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 in the present one