Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-02-10

o'clock the program was moved to the
school house auditorium. the bell of the
school house advising the countryside
that something was going on there. 1t
was almost an alarm, that bell was,
pealing its signal out into the night of
the pretty little town and the sleeping
country beyond. The attractive audito-
rum, now lit with electric current from
the city plant not yet three months old,
was hastily prepared for the meeting.
The band marched thither and kept
things lively till the program began.
The crowd was not big, for nearly all
who saw the exhibits had thought that
was all and had gone home to bed. But
every soul that was there was loyal
one. The spirit they showed seemed to
inspire the speakers, who showed at their
very best before one of the smallest au-
diences they will address on the entire
trip-this, too, at the tag end of the
first and hardest day Of the trip.
Rush Burton, editor of the Lavonia
Times, introduced DR.. Soule.
DO SOMETHING TO HELP.
DR.. Soule recalled the motto of the
State College of Agriculture-"Do some
thing for everybody''-and said it's spirit
is being observed by the institution. He
stressed the Importance Of having either
technical or q liberal education, and
said that to have both would be to have
an ideal education. But, said he. we
have no time for but one or the other
these days. We must choose between
them. His advice, said he, would be the
choice of a technical training. IF a
man does not believe In himself. he
can't possibly do anything said DR.
Soule. He said 1t is UP to unsuccessful
farmers to bite down hard on the bit and
determine to do at least just little bet
ter than they have been doing
He told of the absolute results that
have ben obtained and are still being OBJ
tanned on the college farm. He chided
those who would call the college theory.
I'VE can show you actual practice at the
farm" he declared IT want you to get
the theory" idea out of your head. Agri-
cultural science is nothing in the world
but good common sense"
He urged rotation of crops. He said
farmers can take their choice between
voluntarily rotating their crops now and
being forced to rotate little later when
the boil weevil comes. IF we don't ro-
tate nature win make us do it, said he.
THAT is one of the ways to fight the
boil weevil." He said that this very year
every farmer in Georgia who has the ca
pacity for applying what is told him,
might double his yield of cotton and corn
per acre I'VE can give him the formula
for doing it," said he.
He said people are asking "Why, ii
there's so much money in farming, and
you folks down at the college know so
well how to do it, don't you get out and
farm?" He said they are farming, on
the states land around the college, and
working real results on the impoverished
red lands they find there. He said that
he, personally, is sorry he ever left the
soil successful farmer makes too
much these days to be tempted by any
thing like a college professorship. He
said a professorship paying $1,000 a year
at the college was recently offered five
young men in succession, and each one
of them refused 1t to continue in his own
line of farming or stock raising They
can make more out of the soil. they said.
''And some of them were trained right at
the college," said he.
INVITATION TO FARMERS.
He invited his hearers to come to
Athens and visit the college. There are
those who complain taat this train dom
stop among Them" said he. "One man
complained about this and l told him
Here you are within half a days ride
of the college, and yet you won't come
there and see a hundred times more than
the train could show YOU
IF this community is not being benefit