THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



one day be covered with grasses and dairy cows. With the 

 eradication of the cattle tick, this should be the chief dairy 

 section of the East. The good springs and running water on 

 every section of the land, the excellent soil adapted to graz- 

 ing and silage crops, make this an admirable dairy country. '* 



Probably you have heard Dr. Knapp make this prophecy, 

 and since his death it has largely come true. The Coastal 

 Plains have doubled the number of hogs, as Dr. Knapp stated. 

 The Piedmont region is largely the cotton growing territory 

 and many cheese factories have sprung up in the mountain 

 districts which have stimulated the dairy industry con- 

 siderably. 



Some Reminiscences From a State Agent 



On one occasion Dr. Knapp and another gentleman were 

 both on the program for addresses at a Farmers' Convention 

 at Raleigh. The other gentleman spoke first, beginning at 

 8 o'clock and consuming two hours, a part of which was 

 devoted to his North Carolina ancestors and in tracing his 

 history from them up to the present time. At 10 o'clock, 

 Dr. Knapp was introduced and opened his talk by saying 

 he felt sure that he had some ancestors, but he had not 

 inherited from them any tendencies to give addresses after 

 ten o'clock at night, because he had always followed the 

 habit of retiring at that hour and advised his audience to 

 do likewise. He made no speech that night, but the people 

 were determined to hear him, so they came together next 

 morning and listened to him with great delight. 



At a meeting of the agents in North Carolina at Raleigh, 

 early in the work when there were only about a dozen of 

 them, and practically all of them good farmers past middle 

 age, Dr. Knapp was standing in the hotel lobby talking to 

 them about the great importance of the work, the pressing need 



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