Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-29
DIR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS
rAsTTENNESsEEFAR FARMERS IN COUNCIL.
A General Field Day-A Flood Of Resolu.
fiOns and Spicy Speeches.

biOmS 0Mu ORACy SFCSOSSs
%sEcoNDDAY-M SESSION.
The convention met at $50 A. NJ, Presi-
dent Temple in the chair
It being necessary for Judge Swan to be
absent at the time appointed for him tc
the time be changed to suit his convent
ence. uru..v-n nu
The Business Committee asked more
time, together with leave to amend theil
report. Granted.
MIR. Rodgers of Loudon Obtained per.
mission to add few remarks on
the question of the best grass fol
pasturage. He was decidedly Iof
the opinion that the day of red clover was
passed. 1t is no longer the best grass for
our farmers. Orchard grass is much bet
ter. 1t is also better than timothy. 1t is
one of the most nutritive grasses grown
and peculiarly adapted to the making OF
butter and cheese. 1t is also better than
blue grass. It will grow where the blue
grass will not. This orchard grass will
grow anywhere.
Secretary Charlton thought it a mistake
to ignore clover. 1t is one of our best fer
tilizers. The dairy business is not to be
the business of East Tennessee.
Mr.. Rhea, of Sullivan, was in favor of a
mixture of the grasses. He didn't depend
upon the orchard grass alone for hay. The
great difficulty is we do not put enough
seed on the ground. East Tennessee is a
grass-growing country if we only give it a
fair chance. He preferred the blue grass
to any other.
The President announced the time up.
He invited the members of the convention
to visit his farm west of town and see his
blue grass.
DIR. Daniel Lea was by vote invited to
resume the thread of his discourse of last
night. He produced an ear of corn and
illustrate the productiveness of the farm.
The ear in question had 600 grains all
raised from one seed. Ten dollars an acre
may be added to the value of our lands
by proper cultivation. We must put back
into the ground what is taken out of it.
one of the grasses. DR.. Leafs remarks
were extended to some length and closed
amid rounds of applause. go fsaeS
The Committee to whom the question of
the best kind of cattle for specific uses.was
referred reported as the substance of the
deliberations Of the convention, the fol-
lowing for action: iss-
Resolred, That it is the sense of this conven-
ton that the common or scrub stock of cattle is
inferior to the improved breeds for any OF the
uses for which they are bred, and that we re-
commend that the thorough breds be intro
ced and that the common stock be improved by
jndicious breeding with the improved stock,
always having reference to the uses for which
they are designed. G. 3. LGRD,
The report was adopted.
The Business Committee made the fol-
lowing addition to their former report:
That they respectfully recommend that.
one hour from 10 A. NJ. to IL O'Clock this
morning be set apart for the introduction
of original resolutions and oral discussions.
Hon. Jas. P. Swami then addressed the
convention on the mode and profits of
stall feeding cattle. The address was writ
ten and elaborated with great care, show
ing the best manner of feeding, dc. "a
LETTER FROM A GENERAL. ,si
1t was announced that letter was pres
ent in the hands of Prof. Nicholson from
Gen. VIM. III. Jackson, President of the
Agricultural Bureau of the State. where
upon it was voted that the letter be read.
The writer expressed his regrets that it
was not in his power to be present. The
duty of farmers at the present time was
treated at length and the necessity of or
ganization urged. The principles of the
new secret cociety of farmers were also
fully explained and endorsed.
The time for resolutions and oral discus
sion having arrived, resolution was pre-
sented by. Secretary Charlton, inviting the
farmers of Tennessee to hold State Con-
vention about the 18th of September, and
that the matter be put before the farmers
through the Rurol Sun and Agricultural
Bureau. i+
Squire Tunnel, of Knox, wanted other
papers to publish the call and not exclude
all for the benefit Of one. A.sS ~
Mr.. Perez Dickinson, of Knox, in few
remarks strongly opposed the idea of a
secret Farmers Society. His remark were
received with warm applause.
Secretary Charlton then urged strongly |
,he necessity of a State Convention and
deprecated any thing like sectional feeling.
Col. Doughty, of Anderson, was in |
ayOr of the convention, but not of any |
secret farmers societies. -
1t was explained that the resolutions in |
avor of a convention had no reference to
he secret society.
The question was then put and the reso-
ution adopted. il
DIVISION AND oTHER FAIRS |
ENDORSED.
Mr.. Rodgers, of Loudon, offered the fol-
Res0toed, 6y tie Farmers of East Ten
lessee an Convention assembled, That re-
ognizing the advantages to accrue to the |
armers from we'll managed fairs, we |
commend the farmers of-East Tennnes-
ee, to cooperate with and aid the officers |
# the Eastern Division Fair at Knoxville,
nd the several county fairs in East Ten
lessee, in making the exhibition this fall |
success and that we pledge them our sup
'ort and sympathy.
President Temple didn't think the East
tennessee Fair should be endorsed until
he officers showed some sympathy with
his convention. They had not been pres
mt and had not shown it any sympathy.
Mr.. Kicks said he was one of the Direc-
ors of that Fair had been present yester>
lay and to-day as spectator, and he |
NEW that the officers of the Fair sympa-
hized with the farmers in this movement |
s much as any one. Though not as
as some others they SYM
,athized with this convention. He had
ided it, would do SO farther and sympa-
hized with it as much as any one present
Mr.. Rogers wanted the resolution adopt
d for the benefit of the Fair. Unani-
nously adopted. srtffeT so
Mr.. J. Turley, of McMinn, moved that
he President appoint delegates to the State