Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-09-15
THE TENNESSEE FARMERS,
ASSOCIATION.

Monday was composed of about two
members but only nine
teen counties were represented.
Most of the delegates came from
Tennessee. There was a
sprinkling from the
Eastern division and a few from the
Western. Col. b.. F. CockrelI called
the meeting to order and explained
its object. Speeches were made By
Gov. Bate, Mr.. Stokely of East
Tennessee and Mr.. John NJ. Meek,
o: Jefferson county. Montgomery
county had a larger delegation in
the convention than any other coun-
ty except Davidson. The following
is a list of those who. attended:
Chas. p. Warfield, r. III. McFali,
@. III. Slaughter, G. w. Warfield,
w. A. Quarles, II. M. Reynolds,
N. l.. Northington, G. Orgain, w.
p. johnson, ]. E. Wilcox, L. f.
Northingtun, w. b. Dnbar. John
F. Shelton, b. Lyle, John Minor.
A Committee of nine, three from
each grand division, was appointed
on permanent organization. Esq. G.
III. Slaughter was among those APP
pointed.
AFTERNOON SESSION MONDAY.
The Committee on permanent or
ganization reported the following
officers: =.
Chairman, B. F. COckrill, of
Davidson vice-president from Mid
die Tennessee, 6. III. Slaughter, of
Montgomery vice president from
East Tennessee, III. b. YearwOOd !;
vice-president from West Tennes-
see, Hon j. I'll. Mcdowell, of Obion;
permanent secretary, b. NJ. HOrd /;
assistant secretaries, JnO. Nj. Meeks,
of East Tennessee, and Robert
Gates, OF West Tennessee.
DIR. Harwell introduced resOlG-
tons to the effect that elementary
principles of scientific agriculture be
taught in the public schools and
that the chief work OF the University
of Tennessee should be to prepare
young mea oil the State for agrieult-
uraI and mechanical persuits.
The following resolution was
offered by Mr.. John w. Meeks:
Whereas, Large loses are annu-
ally entailed upon the farmers of
Tennessee by the large number OF
worthless dogs i'm the destruction Of
sheep therefore, be il.
Resolved, That we, the farmers OF
Tennessee i'm convention assembled,
demand the passage by the next
legislature of law ievying such a
tax on dogs as will meet all losses
which may occur by the destruction
of sheep by sheep-killing dogs.
Gen. Quarles, of Montgomery,
suggested that there was already IA
law making the owners of sheep
killing dogs responsible for the
damage done by them.
Messrs. b. F. CockriIl and ID. F.
Wade and others spoke in favor of
the resolution. Pending it discus
sion the special committee to whom
had been referred the resolutions of
DIR. Harwell, reported recommend
ing their reference to the farmers
of the three grand di-
visions of the State.
A substitute was offered by Mr..
Meeks, but was subsequently with
drawn.
The committee on organization
majority and minority
report. The majority reccOmmen-
ded that tie State Association be
made up of delegates from county
and the minority wan
ted all Tennessee farmers to be ell
ligible TO seats and a voice in the
State conventions.
Gen. Jackson here suggested, that
until the delegates present had be-
come an association that the con-
sideratiOn of the matter in hand was
rather premature. He moved that
both reports be recOmmitted TO the
Carried.
Gen. Jackson then moved that
1--WE resolve ourselves into the Ten
nessee Farmers Association"
Carried.
After this some OF the committee
on organization having absented
themselves. the following new com
mittee was appointed:
Harwell, of Giles; Meeks, Of
Jefferson Harrison, of Summer
VanderfOrd, Of Rutherford Buch-
anan, of Davidson, and NOrthing-
ton, of Montgomery.
NIGHT SESSION.
The convention reassembled at
p. IN.
G. F. Vanderford, chairman of
the committee on organization, said
The committee recommended the
adoption of the constitution and by
laws, which have been previously
published. The report of the COM
nittee was adopted.
Col. John Ii. Meek made IL mo-
ion to the effect that the present
officers of the convention be made
officers of the association for the
ensuing year.
Speeches were made by Capt. Tur-
ey, Col. John M. Meek, DR.. North
ngtOn, Gen. Jackson, Alternately,
the organization of clubs
md the cooperation of farmers OF
he state. ......
A resolution was adopted to OBJ
ain from the census bureau statis-
les of Tennessee crops for each
county i'm 1879 and also statistics of
i've stock owned i'm the State at
hat time. The figures to be used
or purposes of comparison and not
ng improvement.
TUESDAY MORNING. !
The convention reaSSembled at
e25.
A number of resolutions on va
ious subjects were introduced.
Mr. Il. Ii. Slaughter, OF Mont
,omery county, offered the follow
which was adopted
NVbaraaS We have noticed tho /