Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-05-24


is to follow. Elementary agricul-
ture should be taught in the public
schools. The speaker said we some
times hear of over production, but
there could be no such thing as over
production of farm products when
large numbers of people die annual
ly from actual starvation. 1t was
not over production that caused de-
preston in prices but lack of trans
portation facilities to carry the pro-
ducts to the people who needed
them. For this reason railroads
were of great benefit to farmers.
He ridiculed the constitutional
quiblers who opposed an appropria-
tion to prevent the spread of the
foot and mouth disease in cattle.
The spread of the disease would
have cost the country 100000 900.
We should have a law in Tennessee
that prevents the introduction of
Southern cattle from June to No
vember. He closed by saying that
he was making an effort to have
each county in the State send good,
live, active farmer to the next legis-
lature.
DELEGATES.
The committee appointed to Sc
lect delegates to the State Conven-
ton made the following report:
G. p. Warfield, II. L. Mabry, w.
P. Johnson, Polk Prince, Ed. Drane,
DIR. Northington, Il. M. Reynolds,
r. H. McFalI, Barlow Dunbar,
Maj. Jno. Minor, r. HI. Edmondson,
Esq. Slaughter, Bailey Johnson,
Esq. Jno. r. Steele, ID. w. Taylor,
w. III. Killebrew, Jno. Rollow,
C. r. Clements, w. G. Harelson,
w. G. Allen, Gen. Quarles, B. f. Gill,
r. III. Wilson, Jack Crouch, E. l..
Williams, A. g. Goodlett, Jno. M /.
Smith, Grit Orgain, Collin Roberts,
Joe. N. Blackford, It. F. Northing-
ton, Ross Bourne, Walton Barker,
M. V. Ingram, Geo. Warfield,
Jones Neblett, J. M Anderson,
Levi. Cooper, Nathan Horn, J. d.
Prewett, r. M. Bigger, w. l.. War
field, representatives of the Clarks-
vile press, and all farmers who feel
an interest in the advancement OF
the agricultural classes and wish to
attend.
The Convention then adjourned
for dinner.
| AFTERNOON SESSION.
Three very interesting speeches
were made in the afternoon. DIR.
Jno. d. Clardy of Christian county,
KY, leading member of Church
hill Grange made a good talk, full
of sound sense and wholesome adj
vice to his brother farmers. He
thought like other speakers that the
farmers ought to come in for a
larger division of legislative offices,
but said the fault was in the far
mers themselves. Farmers as a
class should be better educated, and
then they wouldn't have to accept
the leadership of lawyers and men
of other callings. Farmers in this
section generally work too much
land. They ought to put more of
their ground in grasses. He thought
the negro the best laborer for this
section, and that efforts should be
made to prevent his emigration.
Negroes should be educated and
well treated every way.
Mr.. G. levitt of Marion, Iowa.
was next presented to the audience
and made probably the most enter
tanning talk of the day, from the
fact that he had something new to
talk about and something to tell
our farmers in which they are
very much interested. He told
in a plain way how the dairy
business had been built up in Iowa,
and explained the plan of operating
creameries. He said system of
diversified farming had saved
Iowa from the bankruptcy which
the exclusive culture of wheat had
almost entailed on the farmers
there. The Improvement, he said,
was very marked. Good farm
houses and substantial buildings had
taken the place of shackly dwell
ings and straw sheds. There were
over 700 creameries in operation in
Iowa, and the product amounted to
Ss25, 100000. In conclusion Mr..
levitt said that he was glad that he
had made a trip South, because it
gave him a better impression of the
Southern people. He said that the
opinion was largely entertained at
the North that the Northern man
who came South would be socially
ostracised. He had found on his
visit that all these ideas of the
Southern people were erro neous,
and he was glad to know that they
were.
Col. Cockrill here interrupted
the speaker to tell of a letter that
he received from the North some
time since making the following in
quiries about Tennessee: "lst,
How many of your people die
annually from rattle snake bites ?
I'd, Are the mosquitoes there as
large and numerous as they are
reported; Sd, Is it true that when
a man calls another a d-n lie he
shoots him? we generally argue it
out up here" This caused cOnsid-
cradle amusement and loud laugh
ter was INDUCED in.
Col. Cockrill then interrogate ed Mr..
levitt about the negro population
in Iowa. He said the negroes were
very few there, and were mostly
situated in the towns. They were
not employed by the white people,
but set up in some business for
themselves, generally as BARRIERS, or
took in washing. Couldn't say
that the white people there look
on them with distrust, but they are |
NOT treated with as much courtesy |