Show making better belter GRIMS citizens Tract icil iwhite is what the ilic aced more than it needs the higher education too f few men and women ate arc taught to ho he practical which after all means to be self belf helpful the bureau of plant ilant Ind industry of the department t bf agriculture isdo is doing irig a work of which more more ought to bo be known in people of the south to lo realize iro ie alize a n larger benefit from their if efforts forts arid showing them how best 40 0 o enjoy their surrounding 1 dr dir S 4 A Knapp a practical sei scientist and A lios heig pharrie of odthe iha i 1 arnica Demons demonstration tta avora arid and in iii his creps lr eps il should hould lc be placed in m the hando hand or of ci tion of the south tie anal maca 6 these very sensible and pertinent ic rc marks maiks fit to ta baiso the condition of bf the colored nian nan we ve fro fre lucritty qU critty fief start too loo digh ligli up tip and in ia talking t the hilier hi lier progress talk tight fight over ill his s head when I 1 talk to a negro citizen I 1 never talk about the better civilization but bout about a i better chicken a better pig a whitewashed white washed house out of f the negro schools seminaries colleges etc in the south three years ago very few we carry inglut ing out hilly fully to my mind their proper mission many of them were trying to teach latin and greek which would be of very little use to most of them I 1 know of a colored section where there were colored people settled burring the war and a school was started in 1861 they have been carrying on that I 1 and it is costing a year the managers of the school came cama to me year before last and said gaid the condition people is worse than it was when he we took hold of it go down eherd and see sec what the mater is id I 1 found they weib teaching caching every child that knew khew anything at till all to get away from that count country ay iy they were not influencing the people on the farm or helping them at all they were cill tiva ting their lands with little steers that weighed about goo pounds their sole naomo was from cotton and I 1 have it fr from oin the cotton that the average age income of each family in that section was only 3 30 a year I 1 went to the gentleman that held the purse strings and told him what the difficulty was I 1 said daid you are doing a great wrong Why dont you get at tho the people themselves and something practical in fact wb we were all wrong about it until we took hold of the demonstration work the idea gaspre valent that a man on the farm did not need any teaching now we realino realize that the problem lerud which are aid up tip today and heed solution should be e presented present bd to tb him and it is just as much the artof part of our obligation in our bur great system of gehu y for the roan man on the farm fairn as for the boy that thai is developing to tb be the future doctor the future lawyer or tho jhb future preather preacher it is also realized that the great force that readjusts the world originates brigi hales in the home home condi lions will ultimately mould the man mans a life |