Diversified Agriculture and the Relation of the Banker to the Farmer (Classic Reprint)
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To sum up, what we need is to appreciate the magnitude of the problem confronting us, and to that end we must remember the following things: First. That the system of agriculture ought to be self-supporting, and that it ought to have sufficient diversification so that all of our interests are not jeopardized upon the one crop.
Second. That to bring this about we must have cash local markets for locally grown produce.
Third. That the most expeditious plan for bringing this about is to change the credit system by insisting that every farmer, as a pre requisite to obtaining a loan, shall adopt a plan of farming which will come as near as possible to making his farm self-supporting.
Fourth. That the bankers, and through the bankers the merchants, must be brought to alter the present system of giving credit only Upon so many acres of a one cash crop.
Fifth. That more attention must be given by merchants and bank _ers to helping farmers to pursue the best methods in farming.
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Safe Farming in the Southern States in 1920 (Classic Reprint)
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Grain sorghums: In connection with corn production we should consider the grain sorghums. It ought to be pretty clear to farmers in western Texas and Oklahoma that corn is an unsafe crop on most of the lands in that territory. In all of the drier sections of Oklahoma and Texas grain sorghums should be the main dependable food and feed crop. The planting of corn in west Texas and Oklahoma should be abandoned except on land which produced a fair return of sound corn in 1918. If there is any increase in corn acreage in either Texas or Oklahoma it should be in the extreme eastern section of both States. The need for grain for food and feed should be met by production of grain sorghums.
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Crossbred Beef Cattle for the Northern Great Plains (Classic Reprint)
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The northern Great Plains are well adapted to range beef-cattle production and have been largely utilized for that purpose since about 1870. This area comprises approximately acres of land in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Precipitation varies from 12 to 18 inches per year, thus making most of this area unsuitable for general farming. It has been esti mated that approximately 75 percent of the land in the northern Great Plains is utilized as grazing land. The range cattle on these plains are largely of Hereford breeding, but limited numbers of Aberdeen Angus and Shorthorn are also found. Cro'ssbreeding of beef cattle has not been commonly practiced though there are iso lated ranches where some crossbreeding is carried on.
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Bradford Knapp was an American agriculturist and educator. He served as a dean of the college of agriculture, University of Arkansas and as a president of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Texas Technological College.
Background
Bradford Knapp was born on December 24, 1870 in Vinton, Iowa, United States, the third son and fourth child of Seaman Asahel Knapp and Maria Elizabeth (Hotchkiss) Knapp. His father, after a varied career as educator, preacher, stock breeder, and farm journalist, was in 1879 appointed professor of agriculture in the Iowa State Agricultural College, where he also served a brief term as president.
Education
Bradford attended the Iowa State Agricultural College for two years and then transferred to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee), where he received the Bachelor of Science degree in 1892. Although he participated for a time in a family farming venture, like many ambitious young men in the depressed 1890's he sought a legal career, and in 1896 he received the Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Michigan. In 1918 he received an Honorary Doctor of Agriculture degree by the Maryland Agricultural College.
Career
From 1898 to 1909 Knapp practised law at Ames, Belmond, and Clarion, Iowa, including a term as county attorney of Wright County. His father's success in improving southern agriculture by cooperative demonstration work, however, attracted Bradford Knapp to this new branch of federal service. After two years as a special demonstration agent for the Department of Agriculture, he succeeded his father, on the latter's death in 1911, as chief of the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work, becoming in 1915 chief of extension work for the southern division. While throughout a champion of the basic principles of Seaman Knapp's demonstration approach, Bradford extended and stabilized the organization in essential ways. In contrast to his father's tendency to ignore the land-grant colleges and operate directly with and through practical farmers, the son developed his programs through working agreements with the colleges, and selected county agents from graduates with scientific training as well as practical experience. In 1920, with the extension system of agricultural education well established, Knapp retired from the federal realm to devote his efforts to college administration.
For a dozen years he held executive positions in representative southern land-grant colleges: dean of the college of agriculture, University of Arkansas (1920 - 1923); president of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College (1923 - 1928); president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (1928 - 1932). In these academic positions his central interest was still the security and advancement of backward and underprivileged farmers. His activities in the Association of Land-Grant Colleges were confined to the extension section. In Oklahoma he worked out programs of crop diversification that would provide a surer return for the tenant as well as conserve the soil. To further and implement these programs he developed special short courses for backward areas. In Alabama he wrote annual extension bulletins on "safe farming. " At Alabama Polytechnic Institute Knapp's plans and policies encountered growing opposition from leading staff members and from certain alumni, which, along with the cumulating depression, contributed to his failure to secure appropriations adequate for increasing enrollments and expanding service. Hence he no doubt welcomed the call, in 1932, to the presidency of the recently founded Texas Technological College at Lubbock. Here, in the midst of tireless labors for his rapidly advancing institution, he suffered a fatal heart attack. He was buried in Lubbock.
Knapp was a member of several fraternal and honorary societies.
Connections
Knapp was married to Maria Estella White of Clarion, Iowa. They had five children--Bradford, Marion Claris, DeWitt Leland, Roger Seaman, and Virginia Estella.