Agricultural education has onethird of the privileges and appropriations authorized in this legislation. The conservation of the soil is perhaps the greatest necessity confronting any nation that has a large population to insure the future perpetuity of the race. We have in the Orient many examples of nations which have neglected their soil. nations like China and the Asiatic countries. where the population has increased rather phenomenally. but where a soil is so depleted that hunger and starvation is constantly menacing the future of the people. In our Nation. of course. the farm population. dependent on the soil. is the largest single group. Then the bill also undertakes to encourage the teaching of new methods in the home.
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Nations like China and the Asiatic countries, where the population has increased rather phenomenally. but where a soil is so depleted that hunger and starvation is constantly menacing the future of the people.