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we have got to do before we can get down to the organization 

 period ; and if our railroad men will stay with us until tomor- 

 row — and if they are interested in this vast area of 76 million 

 acres, if they are interested to the point that some of them have 

 said — no other business could call them away; they can come 

 in and if we can't form an organization we will certainly give 

 them an opportunity to contribute. (Applause.) I am glad that 

 speech has been made by a railroad man, because I believe it is 

 time that one railroad was waking up to the needs of the coun- 

 try and co-operating with us in the upbuilding of that country. 

 I am glad, too, that he made that statement, because I believe 

 we will get down to something before we leave. 



Demonstration Work on 

 Cut-Over Lands 



By G. E. Nesom 



Superintendent of Livestock Extension Work in 



Louisiana for the United States Department 



of Agriculture 



Mr. Chairman, Members of the Convention, Ladies and 

 Gentlemen : — I promise you that I will not burden you with a 

 lengthy speech this morning, and that I have nothing prepared 

 especially for this occasion. I will, in the main, refer to things 

 that have already been said. Those of you who have read "Peck's 

 Bad Boy" in your early youth, probably remember the situation 

 of the man who was good at figuring. After he had exhausted 

 a good many other topics, he began to figure on the cost of Right and 

 fencing; and he found that to fence one acre of land it took a ^^^^9 Ways 

 fence four acres long, and cost, after calculating the value of the 

 materials, and labor, a certain sum ; that by quadrupling this 

 area and making the fenced area four acres, it only took twice as 

 much to fence the four acres as one acre, therefore reducing the 

 cost by one-half; and proceeding in mathematical progression, 

 grew to those enormous proportions by which he finally found 

 that to fence an area stretching off to the Aurora Borealis, and 

 eastward to the rising sun, and southward to the Gulf of Mexico, 



