DEMONSTRATION WORK IN INCIDENT, STORY AND SONG 



bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, 

 North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas 

 and Virginia, there were 40,965,000 acres in corn and 30,- 

 693,000 acres in cotton, which would show a yearly loss of 

 over 511 millions of dollars. This loss can be greatly reduced 

 by intensive cultivation continued as late in the season as 

 possible, and by mowing the roadsides, the fence corners, the 

 borders of the fields and the pastures in June and in August. 

 At first it seems like a waste of labor, but its beneficial 

 effects soon become apparent. 



A persistent v/ar on weeds and grass, stumps and brush 

 in the fields is one of the greatest progressive movements 

 necessary to advance in agriculture. 

 By J. Phil Campbell, Director of Extension for Georgia 



One time I was traveling with Dr. Knapp and Mr. 

 Richards, Industrial Agent of the Southern Railway, from 

 Washington to Atlanta. From Atlanta we went to Macon 

 over the Southern ; thence, to the southern part of the state 

 of Georgia. When Dr. Knapp completed his trip he summed 

 up his observations as follows : ' ' The South has three princi- 

 pal belts and soil types, the Great Coastal Plains, reaching 

 from the Potomac to Texas which, when the boll weevil has 

 covered the cotton belt, will be the hog country of the United 

 States. Its climate is conducive of two litters a year, and 

 its soil is well adapted to root crops and forage crops, which 

 the hogs will harvest themselves. The next belt, beginning 

 at the foothills and reaching to the mountains, is the Pied- 

 mont region, which has a somewhat cooler climate, and a 

 soil well adapted to cotton raising. Here the boll weevil 

 will not do so much damage as in the Plain belt, and this, 

 in time, will be the cotton producing area. North of this 

 are the mountain ranges, and the steeper hillsides, which will 



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