Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-12
The Agricultural Congress.

The National Agricultural Congress met at
Indianapolis on the 2sth ult., A. M. 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 organized during the past Blk
months. An average of 40 members to each
society would make 400, 900 farmers, banded
together for mutual benefit. That was simply
the beginning of the movement. Societies
having so members we're 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 beng Experimental upon in many
places.
Mr.. Milliken, of Ohio, and referred:
Resotoed, 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 in their influence and
againstth e 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repealed. {. .s -s,
cultural College, offered a 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 $40, 000, 900 worth of cot
ton: He felt quite assured that a. Paris green
the potato beetle. The mineral, mixed with
thirty parts of flour, would be, effective, and
twenty pounds of Paris green, at twenty-five
cents a pound, would do for several acres. 1t
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 a 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 it is one great cause OF hig
transportation charges.
The resolutions were referred.
Mr.. Richie, of Ohio, offered a 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:
Resolped, That the members of the several
societies, as well as farmers and workingmen,
be requested to use their influence 80 with
Congress that whether we have q high or low,
or protective or prohibitory, 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. t%,ts .-GSf -
Mr.. Hendley, of Alabama, offered a resolu-
ton providing that Congress should consider
~clature, on a scientific basis, of the grape as
cultivated in the United States. Referred to
the Committee on Horticulture aE f
Mr.. Stephens, of Minnesota, offered a reso-
luton recommending rotation of crops. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Crops.
Mr.. Reilly, of Missouri, from the Committee
on Entomology, reported, offering resolutions
| rrovilin4 that Z. aOraao shall ranniro ruilr0a6
companies and settlers receiving the benefit OF
the homestead acts to plant trees ON one-tenth
of their land that agricultural colleges should
give more attention to forest and tree planting
and horticulture that railroads be requested
to plant trees ON their lands that each State
should employ an entomologist, and that agri-
cultural societies should give more attention
to the subject. Adopted
The attempt to get a vote of approval for
the Morrill, bill to distribute the public lands
among the agricultural colleges was a failure.
effect provoked a spirited debate, which ended
by laying them on the table.
The resolutions condemning the Eight-Hour
law, and requesting Congress to repeal it, also
provoked a lively discussion. They were voted
Town by an overwhelming majority,
The Committee on Transportation made then
report. After a long debate, in which nearly
every member expressed his dissatisfaction
with it, amotion was made and carried to re-
commit the report to the committee.
At the evening session, the report was again
pIcbCuI6u, LII al ulCuQch 1OIuus ~ dQODtCA-
W.. 81. jackson, of Tennessee, was elected
President for the ensuing year. /.
The third and last days session was marked
by another attempt to take up the resolutions,
previously laid OF the table, approving the
distribution of the public domain among the
agricultural colleges, but it was unsuccessful.
Consideration of the proposal for a State
railroad from Leavenworth to Port Royal was
postponed till next years meeting.
The resolutions touching the Eight-Houl
law were again discussed, but no definite
action was had.
The question of transportation was discussed
at length. the general opinion being expressed
that rates are exorbitant, and that relief should
be had through some channel, but the ques
ton was, How is it to be obtained? b ma
jority of the convention evinced an indisposi-
ton to bringing about any antagonism withthe
railroad corporations OF the country, but
seemed rather to prefer to harmonic the
interests of the producersand the carrier.
The Committee on the Railway System, by
it's Chairman, Gen. jackson, of Tennessee, re-
ported a series of resolutions on the subject,
which. were adopted unanimously, which en-
body the equitable view of almost the entire
body, and .evinees q conciliatory disposition OF
the part of the Convention.
The subject of pomology was brought up,
and delegates were appointed from the several
States to attend the meeting of the American
Pathological Society, to be held in the city oil
Boston. =
A resolution was adopted asking the. Govern
ment to send weather reports to all postofices
and railway stations, SO that farmers may have
the benefit of them. as well as the readers OF
daily newspapers. 6 Z
The Congress adjourned to meet at Atlanta,
Ga, on the second Wednesday of May, 1874