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the southern people are properly taught they are going to be 

 successful agriculturalists, and they are going to raise hogs and 

 other things. They will be raising hogs when you people can't 

 raise them here. Why? I will explain by an incident: Mr. 

 Clark took me out around your town and I didn't see any sign of 

 vegetation whatever. Now in the south, at this season, you 

 would see pigs out grazing. To be successful you must be 

 economical, and the most economical raising of live stock is to 

 feed them as much as possible off what they can find 

 in the fields and pastures. After you have found this out 

 you have solved the problem of feeding stock economically. 

 In the south hogs can graze all the year round. The 

 conditions are such that cowpeas, soy beans, peanuts, and 

 all those things that you have to buy in the north, can 

 be raised there with very little trouble. They have Johnson 

 and Bermuda grass, and in some parts of the south they have 

 these planted all the year round, and can raise hogs in great 

 quantities more economically than elsewhere. Some of you 

 should go south and raise hogs and cultivate that wondrously 

 fertile land that can grow everything you can produce here, and 

 more too. The pigs can be let out nearly every day in the year 

 instead of being housed in barns. 



There is another condition to be considered. In the south 

 you do not have to have expensive buildings. In many places 

 you can just throw a few rails against a tree and you will have 

 all the protection your hogs need. There is also another cir- 

 cumstance which perhaps you have not thought of. Have you 

 ever realized what the Panama canal will mean to the south? 

 I believe there is going to appear upon the Gulf of Mexico a 

 city that will rival New York or San Francisco. Just where it 

 will be located we cannot tell, but it will be the logical depot for 

 the passage of all the material we are raising to South American 

 countries. I don't know anything more roseate than the proba- 

 bilities for the future of the south. The possibilities there 

 seem to me to be so great because they are based on bed rock of 

 intelligent and practical education, and where you have the 

 proper environments and educational facilities you will be obliged 

 to have success. The south is going to come to her own and the 

 wonderful things that she can accomplish will be realized when 

 the Panama canal is an accomplished fact. 



The southern man, possibly, is a little different in some 

 respects from a great many with whom you are accustomed to 



