The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-10-29
SCHOOLS OF
AGRICULTURE
DONACHEYS CARLISLE SPEECH
Urges Need of Practical Educa-
ton for Farmers.
Extracts from Address Delivered by Gov
ernor-Elect at Central Arkansas
Fair.

Governor-Elect George w. Don
aghey has kindly furnished the
Log Cabin Democrat with the fol-
lowing synopsis OF speech de-
livered by him at the Central Ar
kansas fair at Carlisle a few days
since.
After we throw away large proper
ton of our native resources, it may be
that we will be better off. Truly | be-
lieve it has been too easy for us to make
a living. We have ten months of spring,
summer and autumn in which there has
been few demands upon us for farm de-
velopment. During this time the pas
lures, streams and woodlands abounded
in all the necessities which the customs
demanded. Why should we have wor-
ried when it was so easy to Liver
Ever since the territory of Arkansas
has been inhabited it has been so that a
small patch of corn would produce an
abundance of bread, a SOW and pigs
turned loose upon the open range would
develop into a large herd of hogs; a
few cows on the evergreen meadows
with 70 one to dispute their right sup
piled milk, butter aud beef IN abund-
ance for the few families then here to
consume them. The sport with the
fishing rod, chasing the deer and other
wild game, was too fascinating for our
forefathers to forego aud they thought
not nor did it occur 60 them ueCessary
to teach their children the correct priu-
ciples Of farm management and COM
merCialism.
But now the population of the United
States in but little more than century
has increased from 900, 900 to o5,ooo,-
600. The population of Arkansas in
the same time has increased from but a
few thousand to nearly two million. At
the same ratio of Increase for the next
25 years, what may we expect The
boy of today must prepare for a future
different from the boy of a generation
ago, as life must be met on a different
basis. If we are to make the best of
our opportunities as surely as we live
we must better educate ourselves in that
work which most of us are to follow.
Ninety percent of our people follow
the life of agriculture. A more compre-
hensive term would be farming"
Now, education will pay the farmer
as we'll as the merchant, lawyer or 9TH
err. If the farmer learns to do the right
thing at the right time, he will find his
knowledge the best investment he has
ever made, and one which will increase
his percentage of dividends as the years
roll by. Even at this time the oppor-
tunities offered we'll trained men in the
various phases of farm development
are almost unlimited.
But naturally, the need is greatest and
the opportunities the widest to the aver
age boy or girl reared on the farm. To
improve their condition by learning
both theory and practice in farm opera
ton and development would give them
advantages beyond computation.
The financial returns from intensive
farming have for many years been such
that many of our strongest men are
turning their attention to live stock,
dairying, breeding, fruit raising and
other lines of practical farm OPP
Grafton. The call for farm superintend
ents, managers, foremen and dairy sup
is said to be many times