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money for similar work in other cotton States. In a few short 

 years this great work had covered the entire South, had a force 

 of 1,000 agents, an enrollment of 100,000 farmers, 75,000 boys 

 in the corn clubs, and 25,000 girls in the canning clubs. Every 

 State in the South began to show an increase in the average corn 

 production per acre, as well as other crops, and southern corn 

 club boys attracted the attention of the world by producing 

 more than 200 bushels of corn to the acre at low cost. Girls, 

 too, demonstrated practical, scientific work in garden and home. 

 During the year of his death, Russia, Brazil, England, South 

 Africa, and Argentina sent representatives to this country to 

 study the demonstration work. Sir Horace Plunkett, the great 

 Irish reformer, came for the same purpose, arid at the request 

 of the King of Siam, Dr. Knapp sent one of his agents to take 

 charge of agricultural matters 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. 



HENRY WALLACE * 



HERBERT QUICK 



IOWA has given to the nation three great figures in agriculture, 

 who were also a trio of bosom friends. The names of these three 

 are Henry Wallace, James Wilson and Seaman A. Knapp. 



James Wilson made the Department of Agriculture, and served 

 as its secretary for so long that he was dubbed "The Irre- 

 movable. ' ' 



Seaman A. Knapp went to Washington with his friend Wilson, 

 and became, in my opinion, the greatest educator this country 

 has produced. He took advantage of a law appropriating funds 

 for fighting the cotton-boll weevil, and began teaching the 



i Adapted from the Country Gentleman, Vol. 81, p. 737, April 1, 1916. 



