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For Dr.
, ? Address delivered by Dr. W. W,
Long, director of extension of Clemson
college and United States department
of agriculture, before the Press
Association of South Carolina at its
recent meeting at Myrtle Beach on
June 22:
- I shall discuss first what I con%
I' sider our largest and most perplexing
AnwinnltiiMl nrnhlom TVVl lVVl hflS hPen
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greatly magnified,5 and made more
acute by the presence of the boll weevil;
namely, the fact that 57 per
cent, of our cultivated lands are in
the ?tands of an ignorant and shiftless
class. Second, I shall point out briefly
some of the achievements within
. the last thirty years of the scientific
man in solving the many problems of
agriculture, that at this time of our
perplexity and bewilderment are
making it not only possible but assure
us that in a reasonable time our
agriculture will be on a broader and
i firmer basis for we will have gotten
away from the one-crop system that
limits knowledge, narrows citizenship
and does not foster homebuilding,
'> , for we should remember that the
keystone of American civilization is
the home. Third, I shall undertake
to show briefly how we have within
th'e last thirty years been growing
more and more in sympathy witji agrieuture
through legislative enactr
ment. In conclusion, I shall comment
upon the potential agricultural
power of South Carolina.
Back to the Farm Movement and the
Increase of Tenantry,
! Up to the last 25.years and possibly
longer, the minds of the American
people were largely directed to the
development of the country along industrial,
manufacturing and commercial
lines. Little thought was given
to agriculture other than to reap,
to cook and to weave. The problems
involved in agriculture were not considered
of sufficient value and importance
to warrant the scientific
study of the scientists; and the legislator
made no effort to study and investigate
and ascertain if there was
such a^thing in existence as a rural
problem, either of production or economics.
Notwithstanding that, even
at so late a date as 1880, when 70
per cent, of our people lived in the
country and 30 per cent, in the
towns and cities, it then required the
v . efforts of these 70 per cent, to produce
the necessary food and raiment
to feed and clothe the population of
this country. As an evidence of the
great progress that has been made
in agriculture. 25 Der cent, of the
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people are now producing on the
farms more than sufficient food for
our consumption and use.
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In this connection it is interesting
to note upon what basis the much discussed
movement back to the farm is
* justifiable; 25 per cent: of our people
are now producing .a necessary food
supply and raw material for our
clothing along with a surplus of
each for export. If this movement
, assumes any proportions the natural
result would be that the profit from
the production and sale of farm products
would be greatly diminished.
The only alternative is revolutionary
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this vanishing return to agriculture
would manifest itself in the exodus
to industry and the further increase
of tenantry, so let us desist from this
cheap talk of back to the farm and
let us recognize that our great rural
problem grows out of the fact that
57 per cent, of our cultivated lands
are in the hands of an ignorant,
Shiftless class. We in the south, in
South Carolina, if you please, fully
realize that a prosperous, intelligent
and contented rural population is
therefore essential to our national
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perpetuity. The world's experience
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cure this is to encourage the division
of all the lands into small farms,
each owned and operated by one
,. /. family. {
We know the world'sfmost important
school is the home with the farm.
We know this philosophy to be true
?yet, how are we to bring it about
with 57 per cent, of our cultivated
land in the hands of this shiftless
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buy our lands and endeavor to impress
upon them that there is a dignity
in residing upon a farm with a
fertile soil, modern buildings and an
environment of education Do we
believe that they will ever be able to
develop that ideal country life so
beautifully pictured by Dr. Knapp
, . when he said:
"Let it be the high privilege ot
this great and free people to establish
a republic where rural pride is
equal to civic pride, where men of the
most refined taste and culture select
the rural villa, and where the wealth
that comes from the soil finds its
greatest return in developing and
perfecting that great domain of nature
which God has given to us as an
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W: W. Long
, everlasting tribute."
The basis of all civilization is the
ownership of land. If we are not
; willing to sell them our lands, then
> to whom are we going to sell? Are
. we going to drift appreciating the fact
that in 1910 they owned and controlled
of our farm lands to the value of
$92,000,000.00 (Xinety-two million
: dollars), and in 1920 $297,000,000.
, (Two hundred and ninety-seven million
dollars)? We can't get away
from the fact that our old agricul
tural system of necessity must be readjusted.
The boll weevil problem.
, is largely an economic problem.
There is no certain direct method of
control. Under old conditions the
growing of cotton was a fool-proof
operation. Under boll weevil conditions
the growing of cotton becomes
a highly specialized undertaking. The
shiftless, doleless, thriftless farmer's
fiov ic nrov Tho largest landed es
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tates are in very great danger, comprising
as they do the 57 per cent, of
our cultivated lands that are controlled
by this shiftless class.
The answer that the normal exodus
to the north vjill- take care of the
situation. I grant that eventually this
will be true, but the presence of the
boll weevil has percipitated a condition
that is acute. We can not af- 1
boll weevil has precipitated a condivated
lands lessened in value by unprofitable
returns and thus tremendously
weaken our entire agricultural
structure.
The Contributions of Scientific Men
to Acrriculture Within the Last
25 Years.
There are no pages in American
history of achievements that stand
out more brilliantly than those that
record the contributions of our scientific
men within the last thirty
years in our agriculture, and yet
these men are today pointed to a?
being impracticable, visionary, and
peculiar, aid science itself referred
to as being something beyond the
understanding of the average man,
and as you know and I know that
the very meaning of the word is the
application of common sense. The
aremendous advancement of American
agriculture is largely due to the
unselfish service of the men of the
laboratories and experiment fields. (
Let us call to your mind a few of the
results of their labor that qome into
the daily life of every successful
farmer. They developed by plant
breeding, new varieties of practically
all crops grown on the farms, especially
adapted to specific conditions.
They developed by plant breeding
crops that can be grown successfully
on disease-infested lands. They
have explored all parts of the world
and Vs a result of their explorations
they have introduced new crops that
have proved of tremendous value. r
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wheat from v Siberia has made
it possible- for us to manufacture
our maccaroni, heretofore
imported from Italy. They
have introduced Kafir corn, Milo and
Federita, and by so doing have made
farming possible on millions of acres
of land in the semi-arid west, where,
without these tiew introductions, the
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country would be uninhabited. How
many of our farmers in South Carolina
realize that many of the clovers
and alfalfas that they annually seed
were introduced from France. Ger- '
many and Russia? The Sudan grass,
thatx is growing with us in popular
favor, is a foreign importation. Our
idea of soil fertility has been entirely
t revolutionized by the introduction
practically of all our leguminous
crops except cowpeas. Such for instance
as soy beans, velv^.: beans, the
clovers, the vetches, etc. The disjcoverv
of the little bacteria that gathers
nitrogen from the air constitutes
a new source of wealth that will last
as long as this world stands. How
many of when enjoying our morning
juicy grape fruit give a thought to
the scientific man who patiently labored
to bring forth this delicious
appetizer? How many of us realize
that the man who introduced the improved
variety vof figs, prunes and
dates rode on the back of a camel
1 hundreds of miles in the deserts of
1 the far east? Take your mind back
for twenty years and recall the char'
acter of the fruit then offered you,
especially the peach and apple. They
were small, wormy, knotty, and com1
pare them* with the peach and the
aDDle of today and you will naturally
ask why the difference. Easily ans1
wered because the scientific man has
made it possible to control certain
diseases of the peachandthe applebv
the use of a spray worked out by
! many years of experimentation. The
plant pathologist of today is making
as much progress in controlling the
disease of our plants as the physician
. is making progress in controlling and
preventing the disease with the hui
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man family.
Let us pass on briefly and sta
what has been accomplished in t
development of our animal husbar
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death rate in hogs from h#g chole
in the United States was from 6
25 per cent.?the financial loss f
the United States in certain yet
amounted to a hundred millions
dollars. . The scientific man perfect
a serum and virus that has practical
made it possible to feontrol this d
ease. Likewise tick fever and bla
leg can be controlled. The invent!
of the refrigerating car has do
more to increase the production a:
demand for meat than any oth
agency. Associations for the reg
try of purebred livestock have be
organized and maintained througho
the length and breadth of the cou
try. In t^ie matter of our dairy i
dustry the Babcock test has been i
vented, a simple method by mea
of which the amount of butter fat
milk is determined. The inventf
of fhe cream separator which in
few minutes separates the " crea
from the milk which in the old da
required hours of time for such i
operation. No country in the wor
has made the progress that we have
the control of insect pests. In c
operation wKh engineers the dev<
opment <5f spray and dusting machi
ery in the last quarter of a centu
is distinctly a great American achie
ment. The orchardist would be
the mercy of the San Jose scale b
fou the modern spray pump and i
secticides. The trucker would be
the mercy of various leaf eating cat*
pillars and the various undergroui
pests. Our field crops would fro
year .to year be devastated by hord
of caterpillars, grasshoppers, chin
bugs and a thousand other pesl
Without modern fumigations a]
heat applications our granaries, el
vator-s, seed and packing houses
this country would be impossible.
The day is not far distant wh<
'every planter and farmer will be
well instructed by the scientists th
he will mould the soil to his pro
and the seasons to his .plans and ]
will , cause the soft to become r
sponsive to the touch of industry ai
the harvest more abundant to me
the measure of a larger hope.
Legislation Enacted Favorable U
Agriculture.
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The first official Recognition of a
riculture was in 1839 "When an a
propriation was made to the commi
sioner of patents of one thousai
dollars.($1,000.00) for the collects
of statistics and distribution of see
In 1855, provision for a scienti:
staff consisting of three investigs
ors; in 1862 the establishment of
bureau of agriculture. Again
1862 the granting of thirty thousai
acres of land for each senator ai
representative in congress to 11:
various states for the promotion
industrial education. 1887 the esta
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