The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06
The Agricultural Congress

The National Agricultural Congress met at
Indianapolis on the 2Sth ult., A. NJ. Garland,
of Illinois, presiding. One hundred and fifty
delegates, representing ninety Farmers Clubs,
State Oranges and Agricultural Colleges, were
in attendance.
The Secretary submitted the third annual
report, from which it appeared there were
10000 societies in the country, two-thirds of
which were osganized during the past six
months. An average of 40 members to each
society would make 100000 farmers banded
together for mutual benefit. That was simply
the beginning of the movement. Societies
having so members were entitled to one repre-
sentative in the Congress. Many societies,
being in their infancy, had no representative
this year, but would next. The societies
met with due regularity, and the cooperative
idea was being experimental upon i'll many
places.
The following resolutions were offered by
Mr. Milliken. of Ohio and referred:
ReSolUed, That all effort on the part of the
organization of any class to increase or de-
crease the value of labor or the products of
labor are injurious i'll their influence and
against the interest of farmers.
ResolUed, That the Eight-Hour law passed
by Congress and now applied to labor per-
formed in the Government, being against and
a disturbing element in the management of
the business Of the whole country ought to be
repealed.
Prof. Reed, President of the Missouri Agri-
cultural College, offered resolution indorsing
the efforts being made to secure additional aid
from Congress in behalf of agricultural col
leges established by the land-grant of 1862
and approving the Morrill, bill.
Prof. Reilly, State Entomologist of Missouri,
spoke on the cotton worm, which in one week
last year destroyed $50, 600, 600 worth of cot
ton. He felt quite assured that Paris green
would clean out the pest, as it had destroyed
the potato beetle. The mineral mixed with
thirty parts of flour, would be effective, and
twenty pounds Of Paris green, at twenty-five
cents pound, would do for several acres. II
could also be applied in water.
AT the second days session. the tariff ques-
ton was brought before the Congress, in some
resolutions offered by South Carolina dele
gate. One of these calls for the admission of
iron free of duty, reciting that it is the chief
material in railway and steamship building.
and the tax on 1t IL one great cause of high
transportation charges.
The resolutions were referred.
Mr.. Richie, of Ohio, offered preamble
setting forth that the importation of foreign
wool last year reduced the price of American
wool less than half the price of one year ago.
while the current prices of clothing and WOODEN
goods to the consumer were as high as ever
heretofore;
ResOlced, That the members of the several
societies, IA well ~ farmers and workippmen.
be requested to use their influence so with
Congress that whether we have a high or low.
or protective or prohibtory, or q revenue
tariff, it may operate equally on all classes OF
the country promote the greatest good of the
greatest number and not protect a small num-
Der at the expense and greater cost of the
masses Of the people.
Referred.
Mr.. Hendley, of Alabama, offered resolu-
ton providing that Congress should consider
the feasibility of furnishing complete nomen-
clature on scientific basis, of the grape as
cultivated i'm the United States. Referred 10
the Committee on Horticulture.