Lower coast gazette., 1913-07-05

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able to take up the various problems that pre-
sent themselves and todeal with them intelll-
gently and in accordance with all accepted data
thus far available.
It is a well recognized fact that this wonder
full advance in agricultural education has react
ed in the matters of animal physiology, path
ology and theurapy to such an extent as to have
materially influenced the best modern medical
practices, involving these same lines of re-
search. 1t could hardly be otherwise. The
millions of dollars expended under the provis-
ions of the Hatch bill, the Morrill, bill and the
Adams bill have, we believe been more carefully
administered than any other appropriations that
have been made, or, we may better say, nave
been as carefully administered as any other ap-
preparations the federal government has made.
The money has gone directly into the work and
even far out in the West, in Arizona and New
Mexico, where the prospects for experiment
station work were very dreary at one time, it is
now found that rapid advances are making.
This is also the case in distant Alaska, where
Prof. Georgeson, formerly connected with the
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, has
been doing excellent work for many years past.
We are led to these reflections by noting
some comments of the Tradesman of Chatta-
nooga on what scientific agriculture was doing
for the state of Georgia. Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi are three of the most Anglo
Saxon states of the American union. Of course
the presence of so larae a section Of the negro
race in these states would lower the individual
standing Of the whole mass, but the white peo-
pie of these several states are active and enter
prising and are availing of all modern methods
in agricultural work and are developing i'm
mense manufacturing interests and are making
their mark in the Twentieth Century in which
they will shine out as bright examples of what
the race can do when it shall have more thoro-
ughly Invested itself of its entangling control Of
the inferior race that is being gradually dis
tributed throughout the other states OF the
Union where it will have q diminishing result
on the general body polite. Of Georgia it was
stated that men went hungry for fifty years
there though there was an abundance OF land
on which to produce all the bread needed. When
we remember that the census two or three de-
cades back reported Georgia as only producing,
100 pounds of lint cotton per acre, we can see
how Indifferent culture ccald bring about these
Indifferent res It's. 1t is cited, for instance,
that in 1880 it took the equivalent OF three
hours Of a mans time to produce a bushel OF
wheat, while in 1912 this could be done in ten
minutes. The difference between $50 minutes
and ten minutes would indicate that now one
man, with the things under his immediate con-
troll, can accomplish eighteen times as much as
he could less than a century ago. This should
result in eighteen times the comforts OF life, OF
in supporting a vastly larger population, or de-
yeloping cur population up to extremely high
levels.
It is estimated in Georgia that thirty millions
Of dollars tiiiat formerly went out Of that state
for food stufSis, Brought from other states, are
now held at home. The inquiry now, is-as, to
what will these hundred thousand boys who
have entered into the various competitive agri-
cultural clubs Go4Nnen they enter into life with
their improved education and enlightened I'M
derstanding. They must give a wonderful i'm
pulse to the state. A single instance is cited
where DIT q central LAR Il .SlTl 5 plOL Ol CI0-LeIlCl
Of an acre OF land gave net profit Of S68. This
girl displayed a record showing every phase Of
hework she had performed in the production
Of this crop and just how she had earned so
much money.
May we not repeat with Tennyson that this
Southland Of ours is the 'land of the lotus
eaters, where every day is summer afternoon?",
We must say, however, which is based upon
personal experience, that while it is the best
country on the face Of the earth, the way to
realize this country's advantages are very SIM
liar to those among people very near the North
Pole. II we are to make money, to, gain the
advantages that money will bring to us in our
lives, we must hustle for It and earn it BY the
sweat of our brows, just as is done elsewhere.
Our advantage is that we get more forit here
than elsewhere and modern scientific research
has given us a confidence in our own future de-
velopnent that will expedite the realization of
our most sanguine dreams.
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