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crease Lne pFOUuClLoA anu oeIiAS'4iN'
for meat than any other agency. AS
sociations for the registry Of pure
bred livestock have been organized
and maintained throughout the length
and breadth of the country. In the
matter of our dairy industry the
Babcock test has been invented, a
simple method by means OF which the
amount of butter fat IN milk IS deter
mined. The invention of the cream
separator which in few minutes
separates the cream from the milk
which in the old days required hours
of time for such an operation. No
country in the world has made the
progress that we have in the control
of insect pests. In cooperation with
engineers the development of spray
and dusting machinery il the last
quarter of a century is distinctly a
great American achievement. the
orchardist would be at the mercy OF
the San Jose scale but for the modern
spray pump and insecticides. The
trucker would be at the mercy OF the
various leaf eating caterplllans and
the various underground pests. Our
field crops would from year to year
ba devastated by hordes of caterpil-
lars, grasshoppers, chinch bugs and
thousand other pests. Without mod
ern fumigations and heat applications
our granaries, elevators, seed and
packing houses OF this country would
be impossible.
The day is not far distant when
every planter and farmer will be SO
well instructed by the scientist that
ne will mold the soil to his profit and
the seasons to his plans and he will
cause the soil to become responsive
to the touchc Of the industry and the
harvest more amundant to meet the
measure of a larger hope.
Les slation Enacted Favorable to
Agriculture
The first official recognition of ag-
riculture was in 1889 when an ap-
preparation was made to the commits
sioner of patents of one Thousand
dollars (S1,OOO.O0) for the collection
of statistics and distribution Of seed.
In 1856, provision for scientific
staff consisting of three investiga-
tors; in 1852 the establishment of a
bureau of agriculture. Again in
1852 the granting of thirty thousand
acres of land for each senator and
representative in congress to the va
rious states for the promotion Of in
dustrial education. In 1887 the es-
tablishment of experiment stations.
In 1858 the bureau Of agriculture
was made department. In 1890 an
appropriation of fifteen thousand dol
lars per year to be increased to twen-
ty-fve thousand in ten years, for in
stitutions established by the act of
1852.
1t will be observed by the forego-
ing that little was done for agricul-
ture during the last century in THO
way of constructive legislation. In
fact it is within the last ten years
that the minds of the economist leg
islators and the general business pub
lie have been focused upon the needs
of agriculture, resulting IN the pas
sage of the Smith-Lever extension
act, the .Smith-Hughes agricultural
educational act, the farm loan bank,
the war fnanc corporation, and the
federal warehouse.
During all this period Of neglect.
notwithstanding the fact that his gen
eral viewpoint is one of doubt anc
suspicion, the farmer remained true
to the teachings of his fathers, onl!
occasionally did he wander eff anc
become the willing plant tool of the
3emagogue. Today he IS coming N
X mis- own for fhe people realize nov
as never lefore if there is to te an!
race hetterment of permanent value
there must be a bettermcnt IF the
masses. GA graf nation IS rot th'
outgrowth of a few men CT genius
but the superlative worth OF a grea-
commoa people,
The "resent Potential Agrasr ltura
F'ow er Of South Carc;ira
The potential agricultural powe:
of South Carolina is greater toda!
than any time in it's history. 1 know
this is startling statement; of course
I appreciate the seriousness Of the
present situation.
Let NE sum up briefly my reason
for stating that the potential agri
cultural power of the state is create