November, 1910.] 



429 Agricultural Finance & Co-operation. 



security of the country's interests. 

 There is no reason why we should not 

 follow the example of other countries 

 in which agriculture is rich and flourish- 

 ing in spite of the lack of a soil so rich 

 and fertile as that of the Phillipines. 

 Enerey and vitility, qualities which we 

 suppose to exist in our race, can not 

 have better demonstration than in the 

 economical contest opened to the whole 

 world's initiative and capital. In this 

 fight we have to perish or save ourselves. 

 We must fear little of what others can 

 do against us while we live ready for 

 the sacred defence of our own interests, 

 working hard to obtain and keep them. 

 Let us remedy our weakness and back- 

 wardness with a powerful demonstration 

 of energy and courage in all the fields of 

 our activity. We must not expect pros- 

 perity from any source other than our- 

 selves, and we must organise ourselves 

 for the purpose of achieving our common 

 prosperity through the work that 

 dignifies us and increases our welfare, 

 with the confidence in ourselves without 

 which everything would waver around 

 us, our demonstrations would be vain, 



and our steps uncertain in the direction 

 of a sure and definite future of pros- 

 perity and greatness. The Philippines 

 are open to the struggles with capital 

 and the interests of other countries 

 fouud here, and since we cannot avoid 

 nor reject this condition it is necessary 

 for us to face it with courage and 

 resoluteness. We must bear in mind 

 the following authoritative word of a 

 great thoughtful man and consummate 

 politician who was lately president of 

 the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. 



" Let us, then, boldly face the life of 

 combat, resolved to fulfil our duty well 

 and manfully, determined to be honest 

 and brave, to devote ourselves to a high 

 ideal and, therefore, to make use of prac- 

 tical methods. Above all let us not 

 shrink from any moral or physical 

 struggle inside or outside of the nation 

 once we are sure the struggle is justified, 

 for only by struggle, by bitter and dan- 

 gerous endeavour, we hope at last to 

 reach the end of our true national great- 

 ness." 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



RAILROAD FARMING 

 DEMONSTRATED. 



(Prom the Louisiana Planter and Sugar 

 Manufacturer, Vol, XIV., No. 12, 

 September, 1910.) 



D Th i P lE * n adopted by the Southern 

 racmc Railway system of running farm- 

 ing demonstration trains through the 

 State with corps of instructors in 

 Agricultural Science, and stopping at 

 different points to propagate the doc- 

 trines of progressive agriculture, is a 

 splendid scheme for the benefit of the 

 farmers of Louisiana. 



Within the memory of every young 

 man living in Louisiana and all of the 

 ° t £ ei \ G L ulf and Sou tk Atlantic States, 

 ' Book-farming " was a jest and scoff in 

 nearly all of our agricultural com- 

 munities, where it was mentioned. 

 Irobably the sugar planters of this 

 btate were the first to patiently listen 

 to and partly follow its teachings : and 

 to hail the establishment of a scientific 

 experiment station with scientific men 

 at the head of it. Of what vast benefit 

 the theoretic teachings and practical 

 results of our Sugar Experiment Station 

 has been to our Louisiana Sugar In- 

 dustry those most largely interested 

 therein know the most and best. 



In time, and in a very short time 

 measured by the space of a very few 

 years, those who taught, and those 

 who followed the teachings of "Book- 

 farming " so far exceeded in field-crop- 

 results those who failed to appreciate it 

 and refused to profit by its theories, 

 that most of the original scoffers became 

 convinced and felt constrained to follow 

 the advanced ideas in self defence to 

 keep their business on a profitable basis. 



Experiment Stations and Agricultural 

 Schools and Colleges have demonstrated 

 the necessity of almost revolutionising 

 our Southern methods of farming, and 

 have enormously increased the yield, 

 variety and value of our Southern crops 

 of late. Our farmers have during the 

 past few years been flocking to such in- 

 valuable institutions in thousands; where 

 such establishments were located within 

 their reach. But, as those points of the 

 new learning in farming were necessarily 

 stationary and inaccessible to the vast 

 majority of the farmers, who possessed 

 neither the time nor the means to travel 

 far and remain long enough to learn, a 

 large part of the benefit of such institut- 

 ions was lost to the people of the states 

 wherein they were located. 



Thus this idea of running a modern 

 larming institute and experiment station 



