DEMONSTRATION WORK IN INCIDENT, STORY AND SONG 



me here to get you for lying, and I am going to shoot you 

 for a starter." He said: ''Now, Boss, that won't make cot- 

 ton." But I said: ''It will get rid of a lying nigger." I 

 asked him how many seed he had left. With a scratch at 

 his woolly head he said, ' ' 'Bout half a bushel. ' ' We went 

 together and got the seed and I told him that I meant to 

 give him one more chance to redeem himself with Uncle Sam, 

 and if he did not do so, as I said, I surely would shoot him 

 and Uncle Sam would back me up in it. "Yes, sir, I shore 

 will this time," he said. 



I pointed out to him a piece of land containing about 

 three-fourths of an acre and told him to prepare and plant 

 it exactly as I said, and I also told him that I would be driv- 

 ing along the road every two or three weeks with a gun in 

 my buggy, and not to let me see any weeds or grass growing 

 in the field. Well, Jack carried out my instructions to the 

 letter, and when he picked and weighed his cotton he found 

 that he had made more than 1600 pounds. He sold his seed 

 for a fancy price to neighbors, and negroes to this day buy 

 seed from him. Jack enrolled his son Sam in the Pig Club 

 the next year. No boy in the county did better than he did 

 in that line. 



H. Garland, County Agent. 



By W. D. Bentley, State Agent for Oklahoma 

 "In the early days, down at the Farmers' Congress in 

 Texas, boll weevil depredations and control methods were the 

 chief topic of discussion. Quite a large party of special 

 agents and farmers were in a group on the college campus 

 talking about weevil remedies (there were dozens of cure- 

 alls advocated in the papers at that time), when Dr. Knapp 

 came along. One of the farmers stopped him and asked 



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