28 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL-LIFE DAY. 



and Argentina sent representatives to this country to study the 

 demonstration work. Sir Horace Phmkett, the great Irish reformer, 

 came for the same purpose, and at the request of the King of Siam, 

 Dr. Knapp sent one of his agents to take charge of agricultural mat- 

 ters in that country. 



Dr. Knapp died in Washington, D. C, April 1, 1911. But he lived 

 long enough after this important work was begun to see something 

 of the wonderful results. Although his work was confined chiefly 

 to the Southern States of America, every State and nearly every 

 nation has felt his influence. 



SOME OF KNAPP'S EPIGRAMS. 



The greatest of all acquisitions is corumon sense. 



A prosperous, intelligent, and. contented rui'al population is essential to our 

 national perpetuity. 



A patent to land is a title to nobility, a right to sovereignty. 



A great nation is not the outgrowth of a few men of genius, but the superlative 

 worth of a great common people. 



It is impossible to impress upon anyone that there is dignity in residing ui>on 

 a fai-m with impoverished soil, dilapidated buildings, and an environment of 

 Ignorance. 



The income of the farm can be increased from three to five fold by the use of 

 Improved methods. 



Double the crop to the acre and halve the cost. 



More power and less hand work. 



Increase the earning capacity of country toilers. 



No nation can be great without thrift. 



Training is the great item which fashions a race. 



The woi-ld's most important school is the home and small farm. 



The public school teacher's mission is to make a great common people and 

 thus readjust the map of the world. 



You can cause the soil to become more responsive to the touch of industry and 

 the harvest more abundant to meet the measure of a larger hope. 



The common toiler needs an education that leads to easier bread. 



The basis of the better rural life is greater earning capacity of the farmer. 



It appears to be a philosophy of the southern people to let money slip through 

 their fingers without sticking. 



Let It be the high privilege of 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 conies from the soil finds 

 its greatest return in developing and perfecting the great domain of nature 

 which God has given to us as an everlasting estate. 



The demonstration work may be regarded as a system of adult education given 

 to the farmer uix»n his farm by means of object lessons in the soil, prepared 

 under his observation and generally by his own hand. 



Any race betterment to be of permanent value must be a betterment of the 

 masses. 



An idle saint only differs from an idle sinner in a coat of paint and direction. 



The greatest failure as a world force is the man who knows so much that he 

 lives in universal doubt, injecting a modifying clause into eveiy assertion, and 

 ending the problems of life with an interrogation point. 



