Let us not forget the lessons that were expounded by this great teacher, the man who has taught us a better way of growing cotton. Dr. Knapp believed that farming was a science and not a lottery, and that success depended entirely upon the intelligent direction of the farmer's efforts. He set forth as the first principles of good farming the creed that the soil must be deeply and thoroughly plowed, the best seed selected, ample room allowed the growing plants, the crops intensively tilled; he taught fertilization and crop rotation, urged more horsepower and better implements, more farm stock to utilize the waste, a larger home production of all food and feed, and the keeping of an account of the operation of the farm. These commandments are lived up to by prosperous and contented farmers all over the South.

Arkansas's debt of gratitude to Dr. Knapp is greater than words can repay; but the million and a half people of our State have given a substantial expression of appreciation for the work that he inaugurated by extending to the Government, in furthering the farm demonstration movement, local aid to an amount greater than that given by any other State.

FLORIDA'S ESTEEM FOR SEAMAN A. KNAPP.

Address by Hon. DUNCAN U. FLETCHER, United States Senator from Florida.

Florida esteems it a privilege to raise her voice commendatory of the life and service of Seaman A. Knapp.

Praise has been expressed for him who made two blades of grass grow where one grew before. Words are weak messengers to convey adequate appreciation of the services of a man who made ten bushels of corn grow where one grew before.

From Florida I can report, as others can do from other States, the influence of Dr. Knapp's work is felt and shown in increased production and more efficient and judicious methods.

The demonstration idea has accomplished results little short of marvelous.

The encouragement to agriculture came at a time when it counted in the highest degree.

The stimulus to home production for home consumption has been of incalculable benefit in proving the fallacy of purchasing elsewhere the things which can be readily produced at home.

Rural life has been made more attractive. Lessened drudgery and toil and increased remuneration have likewise followed as results of his efforts.

Unceasing devotion to promoting the general good, unselfish labors for the weal of his fellowman, conscientious studies to further the country's prosperity, a high conception of fiduciary responsibility, characterized his endeavors.

He applied science to practical, every-day existence. Theories he reduced to actual accomplishments. He set things moving along the lines of real, permanent progress.

In the grateful hearts of all his countrymen he will live.

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GEORGIA'S HOMAGE TO SEAMAN A. KNAPP.

Address by Col. HARVIE JORDAN, of Atlanta.

For the people of Georgia I desire to pay tribute of respect and gratitude to the memory of the man whose labors and efforts in behalf of southern farmers have been of incalculable value.

Seaman A. Knapp came as a stranger into our Southland, but when his great soul crossed over the river into the shadows beyond he left behind him the loving memories and grateful hearts of the entire people of Dixie.

My own State has deeply felt the touch of his presence and the high value of his labors. The whole agricultural world has been bettered by his coming and it has lost deeply by his eternal sleep. That man serves his country best who contributes to the uplift of humanity and the amelioration of hardships and suffering.

Dr. Knapp typified, by his life work, those exalted and ennobled characteristics which will forever stand as an undying monument. He was imbued with a high and noble purpose in life. His sincerity of purpose was manifested in his enthusiasm, and this found expression in the loyalty and cooperation of those whose labors were identified with his.

Fortunately for the South and the Nation, when Dr. Knapp was called to rest he left a worthy scion of his name, who has taken up the yet uncompleted task with that same spirit of enthusiasm and sincerity of purpose.

Dr. Knapp's conception of a simple yet practical plan for effecting the introduction and adaptation of diversified agriculture in the cotton States of the South has already laid the groundwork, forever emancipating the southern farmers from the slavery of the all-cotton system.

He was a leader in whom the people had confidence, because they realized the fullness of his sincerity and recognized his ability to successfully put into practical operation the ideals for which he pleaded.

His efforts in suppressing the disastrous march of the Mexican boll weevil, whose ravages were rapidly destroying the great staple crop of the South and working wreck and ruin over the vast territory of the southwestern sections of the cotton belt; his inauguration of the field demonstration work which has so marvelously shown the possibilities of southern soils in increasing the yields of crops; his unique development of boys' corn clubs and their splendid success, each mark a milestone in the career and usefulness of that splendid man of which the State of Georgia takes just pride on this occasion in rendering the deepest homage and gratitude.

While Dr. Knapp has gone from among us, the work which he labored so faithfully and successfully to inaugurate will live and grow, while his memory will ever remain an enduring monument in the hearts and minds of his countrymen.

It is indeed fitting that these memorial exercises should be held in a southern city, so beautifully typifying southern traditions and under the auspices of a truly representative southern assemblage. As he sleeps, let the great heart of the South revere his memory and unitedly carry forward the work which he has left as a heritage of his labors.

SEAMAN A. KNAPP AS A MAN.

Address by Dr. D. H. HILL, of Raleigh, President Agricultural and Mechanical College of North Carolina.

Whatever other qualities go into the making of a great man, there are at least four that are inseparable from mental stature. The first of these is simplicity. Our minds absolutely balk whenever they are asked to admit a finicky man into the class of great men. If the acutest intellect is fringed with squeamishness, pretentiousness, affectation, haughty reserve, undemocratic arrogance, we deny admission to such an intellect into our mental halls of fame.

No one could know Seaman A. Knapp and fail to note his manly simplicity. Here was a man who cared little whether his dinner were served on tin plate or Haviland china. It was a matter of small moment to him whether he got a seat in a day coach or a parlor car, or whether his tie and trousers were in accord with the latest fashion plate. He was as accessible to the obscurest demonstration agent as he was to the chairman of a Senate committee. His courtliness when mingling with men of established position never sank into snobbery or indifference or condescension in the presence of lowly humanity. With him earnestness, manhood, attention to duty raised a man to the peerage.

Second, laud versatility as we may-and it certainly has its charmstill the life of the fruitful man must have a central unity of purpose. Such a life is so consecrated to one paramount mission that it has few tangents. Just as Plato's Unity was the supremacy of mind, just as Luther's was a changed church, just as Arkwright's and Stephenson's was power-driven machines, so Dr. Knapp's center of thought was to render rural life less hard by teaching rural workers the simple but essential principles of soil and farm management. No Anteus surpassed him in reverence for "Mother Earth," her laws and her possibilities, and her rewards. His unchanging mission was to carry the commandments of wise farm effort to those who knew them not and who suffered for their ignorance. For 25 years this mission centralized his endeavors and filled his life. The vast results accomplished by his unswerving unity of purpose enlarge beyond measure our conception of one man's potentiality.

Third, the large mind must, in the words of Emerson, "look to the future." It has no laissez faire in its makeup. It sees stately visions of what may be accomplished by a change here or an alteration there, and then it moves tremendously to effect these changes. Bismarck, like others, saw the disjointed principalities of his native land torn by selfishness and greed. Then, unlike others, his projecting vision solidified them into an empire with power on the throne. Action, tremendous action, followed the thought and realized the vision. Liebig, like others, saw farming without a scientific

basis. Then, unlike others, he, with a look to the future, allied chemistry and agriculture and made modern farming possible. McCormick foresaw that the sound of the grinding would soon be low if grain had always to fall by the ache of man's back, and his reaper made harvest time a joy. So, too, Dr. Knapp, like others, saw what splendid results could be wrought in his adopted South if intelligence reigned on the farm and if every process were a result of thought. Then, unlike others, his organizing mind, looking to the future, planned methods of achievement. Immediately thereafter, without hurry but without rest, he began to embody his thought into action. In words sugar coated with gracious tact, but forceful as cannonballs, he won converts from tenants to bankers and rested not from the labor of his hands until his formulated thought in a large measure dominated the section which now revers his memory.

Lastly, the aceiving mind is full of serenity. This serenity arises from the mature conviction that deep thought, wise planning, and forceful presentation are never wasted. Such sowing must inevitably yield some its thirty, some its sixty, some its hundredfold. Whoever saw Dr. Knapp's serenity thrown out of plumb? In the presence of opposition, in the face of disappointment, in the midst of perplexities, his steadfast calm was not overthrown. He had built on the rock of what was best in himself and of what he reckoned was the best in his fellows and was content to believe that storms beat on that rock in vain,