THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



Then she told me of how she had persuaded her husband 

 to sell the poor mountain land and they were going to move 

 down in the valley on a good farm. They had paid for it, had 

 a nice new farm bungalow and she was the happiest woman I 

 ever saw when she asked me to help her pick out some real 

 furniture, the first she had ever owned. When the mayor of 

 our town heard of her fine work, and she has been a faithful 

 club woman, he offered to start her as large an orchard as we 

 thought she could handle as a gift from the nursery. She is 

 now preparing the land and the neighbors are all falling in 

 line with her general progressiveness. She says she will be a 

 Home Demonstration member until she dies. 



The Spirit of the Demonstration Agents 



The boll weevil was nearly across Alabama and approach- 

 ing Georgia in the southwestern part of the State. A meet- 

 ing of governors, commissioners of agriculture, agricultural 

 college men, secretaries of chambers of commerce and ento- 

 mologists was called in Atlanta. Dr. Knapp was invited. He 

 was requested to bring some of his agents who had been fight- 

 ing the boll weevil for several years. When the time came 

 for the demonstration agents to be heard. Dr. Knapp gave a 

 little preliminary talk and then introduced them one by one. 

 Several of them had spoken and had given much details 

 about the nature of the fight and the progress of the work. 

 Dr. Knapp was not altogether satisfied because the history 

 of the work had not been portrayed in its full scope and power. 

 He nodded to G. W. Orms, one of his district agents, to 

 notify him that he would call upon him next. After Mr, Orms 

 came forward he spoke somewhat after this fashion : 



''Many senators and congressmen have recently tried to 

 claim the honor of having put Oklahoma statehood through 



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