The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-02-08

President Wilson Always Progressive.
President Wilson is nothing IT
not a progressive, and all of his
utterances go to prove his con-
victions along progressive lines.
Almost his last words to the New
Jersey legislature, before resign
ing the governorship OF that
State to assume the Presidency,
contains most fiatteringendorse-
ment of the national system OF
farm demonstration work, and he
urges that the State and county
authorities cooperate with the
government to the fullest extent
in this work.
Regarding the movement to
help the farmers, Mr.. Wilson
said:
The farmer has not been served as
he might be and should be. We have
set up and subsidized agricultural
schools, horticultural schools, schools of
poultry breeding, and the rest, and
they have done excellent work. Our
support of them should be hearty and
generous. But a more effective way
still has been found by which the farm
err can be served. Lectures, schools
and experimental farms attached to
schools like laboratories are excellent,
but they do not and can not of them
selves push their work home. Some
States have gone much beyond this,
and we should follow them with zest-
The thing that tells is demonstra-
ton work The knowledge of the
schools should be carried out to the
farms themselves. DR.. S. A. Knapp
found The way when he was sent into
the south to fight the boil weevil.
Choosing a good farm and good farm
er here and there, he showed the farm
err how to cultivate part of field, gave
him simple fundamental directions,
brought him selected seed, and made
frequent visits afterward to see that
his directions were carried out OF
course, the neighbors promptly took
notice and the next season did the same
things--with the same results, good
crops, earlier crops, crops that the vice.
vii was no match for And fighting the
weevil was only an incident. The work
grew in every direction-not work in
the schools, but work suggested and d.
rected by men sent out from the schools
to take science to the farm, until the
agricultural department could not sup
ply the men called for from every d.
rection. The country man began once
more to come into his own. When the
farmer does fully take science into
partnership and become his own mas
ter and fortune builder, the day will be
gone once for all when the townsman
can tax him and ignore him and absorb
pUnWnluself the powers of government
at his pleasure.
1t does not require great deal of
money to train men and send them out
for this work; and when once it is be-
gun it goes on of itself. Private per-
sons, voluntary independent associations
and county authorities, take it up. 1t
is thing that gives life as it goes. 1t
awakens country-sides and rouses them
to take charge of themselves. 1t is not
help from the government, it is merely
light from the government The light
does the rest. We should give our
selves the pleasure, the pride, and sat
isfaction of putting New Jersey for
ward to set an example in this truly
great and intelligent work for relaying
the foundations of wealth and prosperi-
ty in the United States
This is the way also to attack the
problem of forest preservation and re-
newal-d e m onstration work done
throughout the State by way of exam
pie, until it is demonstrated not only
how the forests can be preserved and
renewed but also how profitable they
can be made without waste, at once one
of the most profitable and one of the
most permanent sources of wealth, a
permanent crop devoted to thousand
uses.
The fellow that goes after bus
mess the hardest is the one who