Forests and farms at stake in national crisis speech
At Michigan Agricultural College June 20 2006 George Maxwell Dean of the National Irrigation Association urged reviving forests to protect farmers and industry. He warned of forest loss eroding soils, water power and living standards, calling for permanent forest reserves and home gardens to lift workers from slums and renew national strength. He urged rural reform, local pride, and farm town growth as antidotes to urban centralization.
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Michigan Agricultural College
George IL Maxwell
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National Irrigation Association
Maxwell
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Metropolitan Family
Lfe
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Ilfe
Town Women Promote Cleanliness and Beauty in Missouri
The Missouri club women lead a clean‑city campaign with campaigns in St. Joseph and other towns. Trenton's women plan lawn and garden improvements and a prize program for children with free seeds. Mayors may proclaim a cleanup day while schools in Joplin and Perry instruct students in Arbor Day and civic pride. The piece notes Missouri towns growing from wilderness to beauty.
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Columbia Herald
Missouri
St. Joseph
Macon
Trenton
T. N. Witten
J. A. Asher
Uoon
Ward Schoals
Joplin
Perry
Ralls County
J. KF. Osborne
A. Baker
Slogan Promotes Home Ownership in Farm Society
The quotation argues for individual home ownership and independence for workers, advocating placing families on land to reduce urban slums. It stresses every child in a garden and every mother in a Nomecroft, warning slums are social dynamite and urging national home crafts and small owner-occupied homes as safeguards.
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Japan
Homecrofters
Chicago
Georse UU. Maxwell
Lfe
Mother Earth
Ufe
New Zealand
Homecrofters Cooperation First Book Published
The Homecrofters movement unveils The First Book of the Homecrofters at Watertown Massachusetts. The volume outlines a program for rural homecrafts, education, and national policy to promote town and village betterment and independent living on the land.
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Homecroft
Homecrafters
Homecrofters
City of the Talisman
Main St
Watertown
Massachusetts
Public Lands Reform Proposals Reserve Forests and Water Rights
A Roosevelt era plan outlines reclaiming lands for homesteads, limiting scrip, and aligning Desert Land and Homestead Laws with Public Lands Commission recommendations. It proposes permanent forest reserves, national forest plantations, grazing reserves with annual licenses, and state administration of homestead lands. It also asserts united ownership of land and water, prioritizing beneficial use and first in time rights for water across basins.
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United States
Michigan
Congress
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California
White Mountain
Appalachian
New England
South
Arizona
New Mexico
BHI
Public Lands Commission
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Secretary of Agriculture
Rifle gardening movement gains city dwellers through urban plots
A Des Moines Daily News editorial clipped for MAXWELL'S MOVEMAKER MAGAZINE extols the value of a small city garden. It argues gardening binds body and soul, grants relief from urban stench, and proves economical and moral, urging every dweller to cultivate even a five foot square plot despite high-rise living.
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Homecroft
Maxwell
Mwomemaker
Westbranch
Iowa
Des Moines Daily News
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Reclamation Fund
al Homecroft Garden
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