Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16
: MON AND AMERICAG
FARM AND GARDEN.
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL AsSOCI-
ATInN


October last, continuing in session, three
DAYS. The meeting was well attended, and
Its deliberations were entirely Of harmo-
NOUS character, from which great and
valued results are expected TO flow in the
future. Men of distinction, of culture, of
influence, and Of enlightened energy, were
there from various sections Of the Union.
There were no captious confictions of
opinions, no clashing of interests; all seemed
TO have been impressed with the one
grand object, the establishment and
organization upon solid basis of perma-
nent National Agricultural Association to
elopment of the best interests of the whole
country. The indispensable need Of some
such consolidated and cooperative organ
1Eation, representing the agricultural inter
esls of all sections OF the United States, re-
ceiving and imparting such valuable infor-
nation as varied and intelligent experiences
should gather, bad long been felt and Sc
riousy engaged the attention Of the more
thoughtful farmers throughout the country,
and from time to time the feasibility and
expediency of forming such an organization
had been forcibly and convincingly
discussed in able addresses and
through the public press. This resulted in
the meeting at Nashville, in which eleven
States were represented by their chosen ag-
ricultural delegates, including over forty ag-
ricultural societies and organizations. The
delegates went to work earnestly and cor
daily and with commendable zeal. The
meeting was every way a success, and the
Agricultural Association was permanently
organized as among the fixed institutions of
the country, developed by steady national
progress from an agricultural standpoint.
The proceedings Of that meeting have
been published and given to the world along
with the admirable address to the
agricultural organizations in the United
State prepared by committee in obedience
to resolution of the National Association, 1
together with its constitutional provisions.
The work was well begun and begun
thoroughly.
The National Agricultural Association !
adjourned the meeting in Nashville to met
in the city of St. Louis, on the fourth Mon !
day of the ensuing May. That time is
rapidly approaching, and it is time We were
up and doing. Winter, with its ices and its I
SHOWS, is swiftly melting into the warm lap /
Of spring. and soon the rosy month Of May |
with its floral crowns, its pearly dews, and |
its emerald green viii be upon US. We call |
upon farmers, and upon Agricultural AssO- |
Citations to give this matter their early atten- |
ton, and in view Of the near approach Of the |
time of the meeting to bestir themselves to |
vitalized and energetic action. We look
upon the May meeting Of the National Ag
ricultural Association in St. Louis as one Of |
the most important ever held in the United !
States, especially as affecting the best in
terests of the people of the great South !
west.
The worlds fairs opened and held at
the metropolises of various nations, inviting
the composition of the cunningly wrought
inventions of artizans and artifcers, with !
the multiplied combination Of machinery,
fabrics, manufactures, etc, to which flock
the tens Of thousands from all lands, are
well and excite our pride and admiration.
The Industrial Expositions springingup and /
thrown open in the great cities Of the vari-
Gus States, showing in amazing complete !
ness and wondrOus detail the power and il
gsnuity Of the muscle and the brain Of man
afforded us unboundcd qualification as evil
dencing the gigantic strides We are making
in the march Of material progress and de-
velopement. But National Agricultural
Association! There the continent shows
its skill, its brain, its power, its greatness,
and there a nation opens its heart. For
from agriculture terminate and spring
all the other great Fairs and expositions.
From mother earth they all arise, aud agri-
culture gives them successful baptism. The
universal Importance Of the national meet
ing in St. Louis then cannot be OyeTesti-
mated. 1t is especially imperative that
Tennessee should be well represented in
the meeting. She must be. And we hope
that the friends of the press throughout the
State, and the friends of our greatest in I
terest, agriculture, everywhere, will keep
this forthcoming national meeting Of farmers
permanently before their readers, urging in
BETTING terms the Importance of the oc-
casion. It will in all probability
be the largest and most imposing assem-
blage Of agTiculturists having that special
and aggregate interest Of the whole country
under consideration, that has ever met N
America. From the distant East, with the
sun In his coming, the tillers Of the soil will
assemble on the banks Of the mighty Mis-
sissippi. From the granaries and stretch
ing prairies of the Far West, these farming
representatives will gather. The ycomaury
from the snow-white cotton fields Of the
Sunny South win commingle there with
the hardy husbandman from the bleak
shores of the North, while the Northwest
and the Middle States will swell the
industrial gathering. Learning, intelligence,
virtue, experience and moral worth, too.
will be there, for this is a
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
Into its deliberations no sectional animosi-
ties. no State chickering's, nolocal jealOusies
or partisan asperities can possibly enter. 1t
Ia not a convocation for the purpose Of
building up one party at the prostration of
another, but whose high aim is to build up
all to the prostration Of none. The vast
benefits to be derived from the meeting can
be readily perceived. Farmers and agricul-
turists. representing hundreds Ofsocieties and
organizations, meeting in one Of the great
est cities on the continent IN deliberation
upon the interests Of the highest and most