Proceedings of the ... National Conservation Congress at ...The Congress, 1911 |
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... millions of mineral wealth now repre- sented on the surface by huge spoil - banks and sunken surfaces . We remember only too well when our fertile fields yielded thirty - five to forty bushels of wheat to the acre , and that the same ...
... millions of mineral wealth now repre- sented on the surface by huge spoil - banks and sunken surfaces . We remember only too well when our fertile fields yielded thirty - five to forty bushels of wheat to the acre , and that the same ...
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... millions in farm property on which all human institutions must necessarily depend for existence has not been safeguarded in any manner whatsoever . Without any organized effort to interfere , 8 Proceedings Second Conservation Congress.
... millions in farm property on which all human institutions must necessarily depend for existence has not been safeguarded in any manner whatsoever . Without any organized effort to interfere , 8 Proceedings Second Conservation Congress.
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manner whatsoever . Without any organized effort to interfere , we still permit millions of farmers to mine out the fertility of the soil , thus increasing the drudgery of farm life , reducing every source of farm income , converting ...
manner whatsoever . Without any organized effort to interfere , we still permit millions of farmers to mine out the fertility of the soil , thus increasing the drudgery of farm life , reducing every source of farm income , converting ...
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... millions of dollars annually by guarding against plant and animal disease , and are just beginning to take note of the untold millions wasted every month through neglect of preventable and curable disease , impure foods , defective ...
... millions of dollars annually by guarding against plant and animal disease , and are just beginning to take note of the untold millions wasted every month through neglect of preventable and curable disease , impure foods , defective ...
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... millions of population to follow after us , and to whom must be handed down a heritage not diminished or impoverished by us , the temporary executors . We may be likened to children turned loose in some vast Midas treasurehouse and told ...
... millions of population to follow after us , and to whom must be handed down a heritage not diminished or impoverished by us , the temporary executors . We may be likened to children turned loose in some vast Midas treasurehouse and told ...
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Página 112 - Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good Government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks ; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws ; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice ; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.
Página 421 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways and forever free...
Página 277 - He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, He provideth a kindness for many generations, And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
Página 359 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Página ix - The annual meeting of this corporation shall be held at such time and place as may be determined by the Executive Committee.
Página 95 - To continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same.
Página 379 - ... there shall be levied and collected annually, for four years, a state tax of one-tenth of one mill for each dollar of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the state...
Página 109 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Página 400 - An act for the protection of the natural mineral springs of the State and to prevent waste and impairment of its natural mineral waters...
Página 288 - AN ACT authorizing the citizens of Colorado, Nevada, and the Territories to fell and remove timber on the public domain for mining and domestic purposes.