THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



Canning Club Work in the state, which is a scholarship, in one of 

 the agricultural schools, given by the State Bankers' Association. 



This is the prize I have always coveted and have been saving 

 some of my money each year to help me through high school when 

 I had finished the common school. 



Being a club girl has been a pleasure to me as well as educa- 

 tional and profitable. I have learned things in my Club Work that 

 will be profitable to me all through life. This being the last year 

 for me in the Club Work, I am going to try and make it my best 

 one." 



Dr. Knapp rejoiced in the prospect of the full fruition 

 long before other observers saw the possibilities of these new 

 phases of this work. This was because he was the Nation's 

 y seer and prophet in the agricultural civilization of the new 

 day. This is the reason that a prominent thinker said that 

 ' * Dr. Knapp was the one great agricultural statesman which 

 this country has thus far produced." He died in the spring 

 of 1911, but he had his organization formed and his workers 

 inspired. His son, Mr. Bradford Knapp, who had been his 

 assistant for two years, succeeded him and the work developed 

 and prospered greatly during his term of office. 



In 1906 and 1907 Dr. Kjiapp's speeches and writings 

 were replete with such eloquent passages as the following: 



"But to-day I am not viewing this campaign for increased pro- 

 duction in the country from the national standpoint. I am thinking 

 of the people, of rose-covered cottages in the country, of the strong, 

 glad father and his contented, cheerful wife, of the whistling boy 

 and the dancing girl, with schoolbooks under their arms, so that 

 knowledge may soak into them as they go. I am thinking of the 

 orchards and the vineyards, of the flocks and herds, of the waving 

 woodlands, of the hills carpeted with luxuriant verdure, of the valleys 

 inviting to the golden harvest. What can bring tliese transformations 

 to the South — greater earning capacity of the people." 



"Sixty years ago most of our mechanics lived in the country upon 

 small farms, which they and their families tilled for support, and 



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