Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-05-16

progress made in all departments Of
auman action.
And yet, did you ever pause and re-
iect that it cOud not exist except upon
he foundation Of successful agricul-
ure?
Again, let farmer go to the great
eenters Of trade, let him spend his days
ina viewing the magniticence of her
buildings. Buildings devoted to science.
earning and art; buildings in which
Tho trade of the world is carried on
And then, in the evening, when the
hum Of business and toll is hushed
and the shades of evening deepen, let
MIN go, and under the soft electric light
view the splendid suburban homes Of
her bankers, manufacturers and mer-
chant princes; hear the beWitching
strains of sweet music; the peals of
merry laughter aud In his admiration
and wonder does he stop to consider (if
not, he ought to-, that upon him and
his success is builded the foundation
upon which all that is great and beau
titul rests? That the "bare-legged,
sunburnt boy who whistles as he
plows, wno sows and reaps, is the
power and the power alone which
makes Wall street tremble or rejoice
the power which creates the products
whose Distribution over the world
makes the stocks and bonds of every
railroad and mandatory of whatever
kind valuable or worthless.
In confederation of this, let me tell
you what NJ. p. ingalls,, President OF the
Big Pour, said in a speech The other
day:
sscs7,o,,1d Al y1yo,+c,,, ,,.,,,,. s,f1 90
shrink this year, railroad earnings will
fall off, economies will be practiced,
purchases such as steel will be post
pOned, manufacturers will feel it and
$50 will everybody else"
1t is like a cob house-pull out one
and the whole house tumbles, and, Mr..
Chairman, it is always the agricultural
cob that tumbles all the rest.
1t is the same barefoot boy who
plants the grain, who slOps the pigs
land feeds the calves, that produces the
bread and meat upon which the exist
ence Of every human being upon this
earth depends.
The same power that keeps a full
national treasury. The same power
that supports standing armies and
navies; the same power that enables
"Imperalism" to send her armies
across the seas to subjugate a free
people by force and torture, the equal
OF which the Dark Ages has no record,
and in which that most diabolical Of
all body racking institutions, the In
QUESTION of Spain, had no parallel.
The same power that, in the discov-
cry and settlement of any country
must go before and prepare the way
that all other professions may live,
Now. Mr.. Chairman, as to the rank,
will not bring Adam into this COM
parison, for other professions can truth
fully say (and ! grant it,, that they
had not at that time established them
selves.
But from the time Cincinnatus was
called from his pillow to rescue the Ro-
man people from their enemies until
this day, in peace or war, in prosperity
or adversely, from the farming classes
have come the men who have stood
high in the councils Of all nations.
Now in conclusion, Mr.. Chairman,
pardon me for a personal allusion.
When I left my home to enter George
town College, my mother (as all
mothers do, packed my trunk ana
when l reached there and opened my
trunk, there on the top of everything
else, lay my slate, and upon the open
face of It, in her well-known hand
writing, were these lines;
Honor and shame from no condition
rise,
i Act we'll thy part, there all the honor
c lies"
And So whatever ! may have said,
was said in disparagement Of no pro-
fession and. to every man and every
woman in this audience, and to every
young man and woman who has de-
cided on other professions, l bid them
God speed, and can assure them strict
adherence to honor and duty will bring
them the success they seek
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO CROPS.
J By Prof H. Garman, of the A. & M.
College:
, The word "crops" in my topic is,
! take it. equivalent to what we some
/ times call field crops" otherwise
am left to deal with fruit insects and
j., garden pests, the enemies Of celery
I cabbage spinach, and raspberries, as
! well as those Of wheat and corn, which
is much more than can probably be
7 handled at one time and presented In
: a single paper.
/ have asked myself, therefore, what
are the field crops most important In
? Christian county, and what insects
. known to attack these crops are most
: worth treating? For even field crop
I insects treated fully would supply ma
terial for a volume OF two.
! Wheat and corn, / know, are i'm
! portant crops here. Tobacco is an
q other important crop. Then you grow
the common forage plants for hay and
d pasture. such as clover, timothy, red
o ltop. and the like.
!. Now of wheat insects there is moth
ing more important than the Hesslan
!, fly. In no part Of the United States
I is II more destructive than here IN
a Kentucky. / wish it were possible 70
: give you a complete remedy for 1t