We improve our roads for the purpose of encouraging and aiding not only the greatest source of wealth and prosperity. but the very. source of life itself. While all other enterprises have grown and prospered in the United States. the growing power of American farms. taken as a whole. has diminished in the last quarter of a century. In the fairest of all the regions of the United States farm population has diminished. either because active and able men have left the farms to try their fortunes in the cities or have emigrated. because of the high price of land. to the newer parts of the country. where they might secure cheaper land. Farmers who have amassed a competency have left their farms and removed to cities and towns. renting their farms to tenants. who removed the whole crop from: the farm and slowly but surely diminished the growing power of the soil without fertilizing and renewing it. Mr.
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