Part 46

Another thing which we are doing is in regard to the drainage of our swamp lands. Today we heard of the importance of this movement with regard to the swamp lands of the Mississippi valley. We have swamp lands, as you know, along the Atlantic coast, thousands of acres of them, and we want them made available for cultivation. They will then be amongst the richest lands of our country, and we are actually going at it. We find that we cannot afford to wait for national aid of a direct type, so we are organizing drainage districts under a state law, which permits organization of districts, coöperating with the government, and actually draining certain portions of the swamp lands. So far we have had three drainage districts organized, and over two thousand acres of land in one district, and about three thousand acres in another have already been drained by this new method under a swamp land drainage law. We are going ahead along that line, and in the future you will hear of many thousands of acres of this swamp land that will be made garden spots, truck lands, similar to those that we already have in the vicinity of Charleston. Just a word in regard to the conservation of the soil. We have no law, there is no special state move in this respect, but the State of South Carolina produced last year 1,200,000 tons of commercial fertilizer, and the largest part of that immense product was used within the state of South Carolina itself. Now, that is conserving the soil. That is doing the thing that many of the people of the West will have to come to in view of the lost fertility by rotation of crops upon the same land year after year.

Just a final word in regard to the work in the improvement of rural life conditions. The State of South Carolina is a leader in that we have appointed a state inspector of rural schools. He is an educational engineer and travels all over the state. He visits rural school after rural school. He studies the conditions there, and he makes reports to the state board of education, and conditions are improved, and the state has made appropriations for the aid of these rural schools as the educational engineer reports along these lines. We are interested in the conservation movement. We think it is a grand movement for the benefit not only of the present day, but of the generations to come. I thank you. (Applause)

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTED AT THE THIRD NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESS.

National Conservation Association. National Business League. National Dairy Union. National Implement and Vehicle Association. National Association of American Chemical Societies. National Rivers and Harbors Congress. American Society of Engineering Draftsmen. American Sunday School Association. General Federation of Women’s Clubs. American Economic Association. National Rivers and Lakes Commission. American Chemical Society. National Fire Protective Association. American Association State Geological Department. National Farmers’ Institute. Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo. National Council of Women. American Poultry Association. National Association Audubon Societies. American Bison Society. American Society Civil Engineers. American Society II. and V. Engineers. League of American Sportsmen. American Shorthorn Association. Women’s National Rivers and Harbors Congress. National Nut Growers’ Association. Farmers’ National Congress. Society for Promoting Engineering Education. American Pomological Society. Collegiate Alumni Association. American Railway Engineers’ Association. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. National Columbian Wyandotte Club. American Association of Refrigeration. National Irrigation Congress. National Educational Association. National Association Daughters American Revolution. National Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. North American Fish and Game Association. American Mining Congress. International Dry Farming Congress. National Mothers’ Congress. American Medical Association. United States Department of Agriculture. United States Weather Bureau. United States Forestry Service. American Association for the Advancement of Science. National Fertilizer Association. National Soil Fertility League. National Irrigation Congress. American Civic Association. National Municipal League. National Humane Society. Society of American Florists. American Carnation Society. American Institute of Electrical Engineering. Cattle Raisers’ Association. United Daughters of the Confederacy. American Academy of Political and Social Science. National Association of Manufacturers. American Society for Testing Materials. National Partridge and Wyandotte Club. National Board of Fire Underwriters. American Society of Refining Engineers. American Electrochemical Society. American Waterworks Association. American Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Association. German-American Alliance. Russian Government Agricultural Commission. National Wholesale Lumber Dealers’ Association. National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association. Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways Association. National Shell Fish Association. National Garment Manufacturers’ Association. National Dealers’ Association. National Fertilizers’ Association.

LIST OF REGISTERED DELEGATES TO THIRD NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESS.

_Alabama._

LeFevre, E. R. Gadsden Miller, J. M. Cordova Rushton, W. J. Birmingham

_Arizona._

Foote, Geo. A. Safford Fowler, B. A. Phoenix

_Arkansas._

Brusee, Geo. Decatur Cook, Geo. B. Little Rock Dotson, J. Alfred Rogers Higinbotham, Mrs. H. G. Pine Bluff Lewis, F. W. Mena Morris, Mrs. C. D. Rogers Plank, E. N. Decatur Spaulding, H. G. Fort Smith Stroud, J. W. Rogers Toland, H. L. Ashdown

_California._

Baumgartner, J. P. Santa Ana Beard, W. M. Sacramento Glavis, Louis R. San Francisco Simons, D. P. Los Gatos Turner, J. A. Santa Ana

_Canada._

Armstrong, L. O. Montreal

_Colorado._

Bruce, Geo. W. Delta Callbreath, J. F. Denver Dunning, W. S. Colorado Springs Eddy, H. H. Denver Gregg. J. S. F. Golden Hickman, R. S. Delta Meservey, Albert B. Colorado Springs Lindsey, Ben B. Denver Wilder, Chas. T. Colorado Springs Work, Dr. Hubert Pueblo

_Connecticut._

Towney, Jas. W. Hartford

_District of Columbia._

Chilcott, E. C. Washington Cameron, Frank L. Washington Cobb, M. A. Washington Frankenfield, H. C. Washington Graves, H. L. Washington McGee, W J Washington Marbut, Curtis F. Washington Shipp, Thomas R. Washington Spillman, W. J. Washington Wiley, H. W. Washington

_Florida._

Campbell, T. J. West Palm Beach Cromer, J. M. West Palm Beach

_Georgia._

Worsham, E. Lee Atlanta Worsham, Mrs. E. Lee Atlanta

_Idaho._

Shepperd, John W. Caldwell Witson, Wm. Driggs Woods, M. H. Arco Yancey, Cyrus Blackfoot

_Illinois._

Abbott, A. N. Morrison Aull, J. L. Belleville Bartow, Edw. Urbana Bell, Henry Y. Chicago Bligh, L. L. Chicago Block, Mrs. Fred’k West Chicago Bradish, A. C. Ottawa Braiden, Mrs. Clara V. Rochelle Brooks, Morgan Urbana Burgett, Scott Newman Burgett, Thomas P. Newman Burroughs, E. W. Edwardsville Campbell, Murdock Chicago Charles, A. W. Carrni Christine, W. T. Chicago Clapp, F. H. Mazon DeWolf, Frank W. Urbana Duncan, J. R. Tuscola Dunn, Ballard Chicago Eisenhart, Henry Waterloo Elliott, J. T. Armington Evans, W. A. Chicago Franklin, G. W. Nenault Giffhorn, Henry Columbia Gossett, M. B. Newman Gross, Howard H. Chicago Grout, A. P. Winchester Hays, Dudley Grant Chicago Hill, A. H. Ottawa Hooker, Arthur Chicago Hopkins, Cyril G. Urbana Jewell, H. L. Monmouth Johnson, B. A. Chicago Jones, Loyd Z. Galva Marlin, D. M. Norris City Mueller, Sr., Peter Valmeyer Myers, O. V. Newman Myers, M. R. Chicago Nickerson, J. F. Chicago Noyes, La Verne Chicago Noyes, Mrs. La Verne Chicago Osborn, F. W. Quincy Pur Khizer, Edw. G. Chicago Randolph, Isham Chicago Rutherford, Cyrus Newman Sconce, H. J. Sidell Shoffer, John C. Chicago Stufflebeam, O. F. Rossville Syster, Mrs. J. C. Oregon Tatgl, Gustavus Chicago Taylor, Thomas A. Catlin Thompson, Mrs. C. H. Chicago Vrooman, Mrs. Carl Bloomington Vrooman, Carl S. Bloomington Wallbaum, F. C. Ashland Walker, J. A. Chicago Wolcott, H. K. Batavia Woodbury, A. G. Danville Young, W. M. Newman

_Indiana._

Barnard, H. E. Indianapolis Barrett, Edward Indianapolis Blatchley, W. S. Indianapolis Breeze, Fred J. Lafayette Breeze, Geo. D. Delphi Dinwiddie, Oscar Lowell Ford, Charles New Harmony Hamilton, John C. Indianapolis Hoynes, Prof. William Notre Dame Knapp, Mrs. Edwin A. Winona Lake Neizer, Maurice C. Ft. Wayne Reisenberg, Henry Indianapolis Whitehead, J. W. New Harmony Woods, Sam B. Crown Point

_Iowa._

Allred, W. P. Corydon Ashby, Mrs. Harriett W. Des Moines Ball, F. D. Creston Bishop, E. C. Ames Bliss, J. A. Diagonal Bogie, S. R. Waverly Brown, Nelson C. Ames Chandler, W. R. Blacktan Cleveland, O. S. Webster City Corrie, S. M. Ida Grove Curtiss, Chas. F. Ames Davis, F. M. Corning Donald, G. B. Mac Ames Doran, Justin R. Beaver Doty, James J. Shenandoah Dunn, E. G. Mason City Durrell, Geo. O. Pilot Mound Elk, M. M. Galva Elder, Orville Washington Fry, Joseph Weyer Hathaway, B. Kingsley Haynes, E. C. Centerville Hazard, T. R. Des Moines Holden, P. G. Ames Holman, R. A. Rockwell Hunt, C. W. Logan Hunter, Edward H. Des Moines Hutchins, C. B. Algona Hutchinson, S. T. Lake City Ives, A. P. Irvington Kamrar, J. S. Webster City Kelmartin, A. P. Malvern Kaufman, Chas. C. Wilton Junction Keating, C. R. Mt. Ayr Kirkham, G. A. Diagonal Kissack, John Farmer City Knight, O. N. Salem Latta, W. W. Logan Leas, J. E. Galva Leffler, Geo. V. Stockport Lockwood, B. A. Des Moines Macbride, Thomas H. Iowa City McCulloch, Fred Belle Plains McWhorter, Ellis Burt Kossuth Menton, J. A. Boone Miller, A. C. Des Moines Miller, C. W. Waverly Miller, O. W. Waverly Milner, E. P. Red Oak Nichols, Warren Minerva Nichols, Mrs. Warren Minerva Noble, Mrs. Lucy Seward Waterloo Parrott, H. Waverly Parrott, Mrs. Jane Waverly Packels, Theo. Waverly Plummer, A. L. Altoona Rubel, H. F. Waverly Russell, J. W. Adel Ranels, S. C. Des Moines Schenk, Myron Algona Shimek, B. Iowa City Smith, Ed. H. Cedar Rapids Soper, E. B. Emmetsburg Soper, E. H. Emmetsburg Spencer, A. P. Oskaloosa Stanton, E. W. Ames Steen, F. D. West Liberty Sykes, A. Des Moines Sykes, Mrs. A. Des Moines Tabur, Frank Waverly Tomlinson, H. E. New Market Turner, Asa Ferrar Vail, Dr. A. M. Rock Rapids Van Slyke, Mrs. C. B. Des Moines Wagner, Henry Ankeny Wallace, H. C. Des Moines Welch, E. S. Shenandoah Weller, Miss Mame E. Nashua Wells, Joseph Des Moines Whealan, Geo. B. Galva Wisdom, Frank Bedford

_Kansas._