The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-04-17
TIE LOUISVILLE
CONFERENCE.
Thu Editors Impressions. Gathering
Made Up of Men from All Call.
-ingS. Purposes of Meet.

Kentucky. The Conference was made
up of farmers, bankers, teachers, stock
raisers, preachers, newspaper men, edu-
Gators and many others interested in
building for the future of this great
section. The prime purpose of the
Conference was to make the pathway
of the farmer pleasanter and more
successful one, to foster schools and to
arrive at an intelligent plan for CO.
operative credits for the farmer.
| The meeting was not important for
what was said or done but for the
spirit that prompted it and for what
may grow out of it. Unquestionably
there is new spirit abroad in the land.
Many of the fixed customs of the past
are in transitory state they must
give way to other things 1t is fact
that will not be denied by the farmer
that there has been less change, less
progress and less enterprise in his call
ing than in any other in the whole coun-
try. 1t is fact, too, that the farmer
has suffered himself too much to believe
that his financial embarrassments, his
failure to realize his own, was some
body else's fault rather than his own,
all of which has tended to create the
belief that the agriculturalists failures
came from without rather from within.
The farmer is no less 'the architect of
his own fortune than anybody else.
While this is correct, it is also true that
farm life has begotten an ease, a state
of self-satisfaction that has not aroused
the best in the farmer and has served
to encourage the shrewd man, the
schemer, the speculator to regard him
as easy prey.
The Louisville gathering was for the
purpose Of making better schools in the
country, making the country home more
attractive, causing the farmer to un-
dertake an intelligent cooperation in
business and to impress upon the bank
er, the merchant and all others the
necessity of shaping current affairs SO
as to prosper the country upon whose
wealth and fecundity the balance of the
world must depend. Orators have fed
the farmer upon dew drops and moon
shine long enough.
The Louisville gathering was remark
/ able for the recognition of that funda-
mental truth upon which all civilized
governments are based and upon which
all permanent business relations must
exist-the brotherhood of man. Bank
ers there discussed farm credits and CO.
operative banking and the lessons of
what others are doing along these lines
were brought to the Conference, and
thus what is tried and proven success
full in one part of the country is given
to representatives in other parts of the
country and the result cannot be other
than helpful and profitable. The CO.
operative creamery was shown to be a
great suscess, matter which was very
carefully and elaborately presented.
The writer was particularly impressed
with what was said by H. A. Grover, q
good, substantial farmer of Lavalle,
| Wisconsin, about the operation of the
cooperative creamery at that place.
Those who are Interested might get in
communication with this gentleman,
He is no theorst. He is no artist ir
the use of words but has every appear
ance of an earnest, hardworking, sue.
cessful farmer who can better do {
thing than tell about it after it is done.
The manufacturer was there - h {
talked about business from his view
point. The educator was there and he
told of the work in the schools and the
colleges and how these institutions were
endeavoring to feed the farm, create
new hope, build anew the lessons Of
indus stry-above all we'll directed, ar
intelligent industry. There can be M
question about the fact that every call
ing, every profession known to mar
has profited by science and education
If the farm can not be made more in
viting, more prosperous, and to yielC
1.-TWO blades of grass" where one ha.
been growing, then it is the only bust
ness in the wide world that has reached
its zenith and is the only one that is no
benefited by education and by science
The raising of stock was sensibly
handled at the conference. There is nc
debate about the matter that the in
crease of the population of this country
makes i1 imperative that there shall be
more cattle raised and more pork pro-
duced. The South is fertile field for
this industry. Here the cold season is
shorter than in the middle west and the
north, here the pastures last longer,
here every provender that can be raised
in Iowa, Missouri or Kansas can be
raised and it therefore is apparent tc
any sensible man that Mississippi, yea
almost the entire South, can engage in
the stock business just as protitably as
the great West There are no arid re-
gions in the South and there is every
incentive for the sensible farmer to de-
vote some of his talents to stock rails
ing. The United States Department OF
Agriculture and the United States De-
partment of Commerce and Labor had
their representatives at this great gath
ering.
Uncle Sam has made few mistakes in
the past. He says scientific farming i,
the hope of the country. He is invest
ing thousands of dollars every year to
carry scientific agriculture to the peo-
pie. He has failed in nothing he has
undertaken. 1t therefore would seem
wise for the farmer to meet him half
way-to get up and get ready to do
business with the farm demonstrator.
with the representative of the agricul-
tural college. OF course there is little
that is worth having that is absolutely
faultless, no human agency has yet
worked out any scheme or plan that is
entirely free from error. 1t is happy
sign of new day when the banker is