Forests and farms in danger if timber is lost
George S Maxwell at Michigan Agricultural College June 20 warned forests underpin national life. He urged permanent forest reserves, decentralization, and a national drive to put every child in a garden and every worker in a home on the land to avert erosion and urban decay.
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Michigan Agricultural College
George S. Maxwell
Homecrofters
National Irrigation Association
Maxwell
Mr. Maxwell
Burroughs
Senate
Congress
Natiquil
United States
Michigan
Calaveras
California
White Mountain
Appalachian
New England
South
Tramecrofters
Japan
Fisher Building
Chicago
Metropolitan Family Monthly
Offier
H Oinecroft
Secretary of Agriculture
Missouri club women push cleaner towns movement
The Missouri club women lead a drive for civic beauty with cleaning campaigns in St. Joseph and other cities. Trenton women plan prizes for schoolchildren to grow flowers, while Joplin and Perry mobilize pawns for Arbor Day and campus beautification campaigns.
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Columbia Herald
Missouri
St. Joseph
Macon
Trenton
T. Witten
J. A. Asher
Joplin
Perry
Ralls County
J. ¥. Osborne
A. Baker
Homecrofter and Independent Living Echo in Verse
A compact fragment explores owner occupied plots and small home crafts. It contrasts Wordsworthian rural imagery with civic duty and republican resilience, noting a growing population living in individual homes and the value of personal independence.
Homecrofters First Book Published Watertown Gild
The Brotherhood of Man promotes Homecrofters with aims to spread homecraft and village improvement. Watertown Massachusetts hosts the first Gild at 143 Main Street with the Garden School and over a hundred children at work. Copy requests ask for twelve stamps to The Homecrofters’ Clip of the Talisman.
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Watertown
Massachusetts
Main Street
Homecrofters
Talisman
Main St
A Homeecraft Garden Movement Gains Readers Interest
A Des Moines Daily News editorial cited by MAXWELL Homemaker urges city dwellers to grow a garden even on small plots. It argues gardening offers exercise, joy, and moral value beyond mere money saved, stressing nature’s calm, fragrance, and color amid urban life.
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Maxwet
Homemaker Magazine
Westbranch
Iowa
Des Moines Daily News
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Colorado
Rio Grande
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General Treasury
Reclamation Fund
Public Lands Commission
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