THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



"Every lesson taught in the school should be immediately applied 

 to the farm and home." 



"The great battles of the future will be industrial battles. 

 England, Germany, France, Japan and the United States are putting 

 forth every effort to gain industrial advantage." 



"If by any process of training, it matters not how costly, we 

 could implant in the American youth a universal love of industry and 

 a universal knowledge of agricultural and mechanical arts they 

 would blend with our native genius, skill and ability to do masterful 

 things, and Americans would become the industrial arbiters of the 

 world." 



ADDRESS TO MEMPHIS BUSINESS MEN AND FARMERS 



IN 1910. 



"You can grow cotton in the South, boll weevil or no boll 

 weevil." 



"We have just begun to raise cotton. The next 22 years should 

 see the crop double, as it did in the past 22 years." 



"Anyone who says 'Let us get out of cotton' is uttering cheap 

 talk.' " 



"The only safe plan is to produce a cash crop, for your bank 

 account, and at the same time produce your provisions on the farm." 



"If you do not intend in the future to get all you can out of the 

 soil and out of your labor, sell your plantations now." 



"The progress of the world is the enslavement of machinery 

 The man who is successful will use more machinery and fewer men." 



"The South can raise four times what it does at present, and 

 increase the net profit ten per cent. If you should even double the 

 crop you could own the world and go fishing." 



"Destroy confidence in farming and you put dynamite under 

 your cities." 



"Publicity is a great thing for the farmers." 



"You should all get agricultural religion. If you don't you will 

 go to agricultural hell pretty quickly. 



MISCELLANEOUS 

 "From an economic standpoint the greatest problem before the 

 people of the United States is, what shall we eat and how shall we 

 prepare it? 



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