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Teddy Roosevelt: “Far from agriculture properly exhausting the land, it is always the sign of a vicious system of agriculture if the land…”

On the recordMay 28, 1903
Far from agriculture properly exhausting the land, it is always the sign of a vicious system of agriculture if the land is rendered poorer by it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah

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