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con, developed on all these demonstration farms could be con- 

 solidated and then be distributed to everybody concerned, it 

 would make a fine lot of information well developed ; and this is 

 one of the things I would suggest as being desirable. Now, it 

 is probable that if this series of farms were looked over, we 

 would find that they were not ideally located so as to cover all 

 types of the cut-over district. We had reference yesterday to the 

 Orangeburg Sand and others of the Greenville clay type, all of 

 which represent more or less distinct types of country. Are 

 these farms so located that we could get data from all classes of 

 them, in case they were all consolidated, and the data were pub- 

 lished in some bulletin or other consolidated form? In my 

 opinion, we would have to go a little further and have a central 

 clearing house, through which it would be more certain that all 

 types would be represented. Some system might be arranged 

 for buying some of the present farms which adequately repre- 

 sent the work on different types of land. 



I would rather call these demonstration farms than experi- 

 ment stations. I believe they ought to be under a consolidated 

 management. I believe their management should have the best 

 agricultural talent that can be had. I know some farmers trying 

 to demonstrate facts regarding cut-over pine lands today, where 

 their work has been to a large extent vitiated, due to the fact 

 that their failure has been brought about by men from other sec- 

 tions, who may have been an eminent success, but who are not agement 

 competent, with all due respect to their success otherwise, to 

 handle the question of agriculture in this section with which they 

 are probably not familiar. The new system of demonstration 

 farms of this kind should be under the control of men who know 

 agriculture primarily. 



Now, I want to go one step further and suggest a practical 

 means by which this can be done, and I will illustrate it by say- 

 ing that a few years ago, when the Hawaiian Islands were at- 

 tempting to develop the sugar business along modern lines, they 

 sought the world over for some information. The Louisiana 

 State University at that time had about the only sugar school 

 and experiment station that was doing very much, and I violate 

 no confidence when I say that Louisiana did not look with a 

 great deal of favor on seeing the Hawaiian Islands go into the 

 sugar field, and they didn't go out of their way to give the 

 Hawaiian planters any particular information. They soon re- 



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