"Beef is too dear; far too dear. There is something serious 

 about it. There is no use talking about living on potatoes and cab- 

 bages. The man who eats meat rules the world, and our people have 

 got to have beef. 



"Well, Congress gave us money to make a beginning. Then 

 the field cattle tick appeared. It takes two hundred pounds of blood 

 a season from its host, and that host does not prosper does not do 

 much good. And so the beef industry in the South is not in a flourish- 

 ing condition. For the last three years we have been exterminating 

 that pest over 50,000 square miles of the Southern States, and that 

 makes something like 150,000 miles now where people can grow 

 cattle just as you grow them up here. We sent North and got 

 specimens down there to improve the breed. And more than that. 

 The richest fertilizer known to man is the cotton-seed meal, which 

 comes from the cotton plant. It has been sold to the North, and 

 it has been sold all over the world. People in European countries 

 buy their millfeed from the United States, and all the cotton seed 

 meal they can get. They buy the stuff and ship it. There is no better 

 fertilizer than that manure pile from these rich mill feeds. I looked 

 it up and found that Denmark made butter and sold it to the British 

 people in one year $35,000,000 worth of butter. And we sold them 

 the millfeed from which to make the butter. We real Americans 

 we all are have been putting in our time on the farm growing cow- 

 feed for the Danes. That is what we have been doing. That is why 

 our soils are going down. There are a great many reasons, but that 

 is one of them. Now then we will eventually clean up that cattle 

 feed and go on growing beef, growing cattle, feeding for steers. They 

 will find their way here. Everything finds its way here. I even 

 found my way down to see Bowling Green for the first time myself. 

 "The railroad men are not only anxious to aid in this work, 

 but they help they contribute. All the Congressmen are the leaders 

 in their districts. They arrange to have meetings held in those dis- 

 tricts to discuss all the interests of the farmers. They get scientists 

 from wherever they can find them and we send all we can spare to 

 discuss these subjects. The lawyers of the South are in favor of 

 the rejuvenation of the South, and the dealers in produce and mer- 

 chandise are the same. 



"Ladies and gentlemen of the section of country between Cape 

 Cod and the Allegheny Mountains, the way to bring back the soils 

 of that section, to rejuvinate fertility, is to organize every class of 

 society here and have them direct it. Whatever intelligent and en- 



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