The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-04

for the ensuing year:
President, Frank Hill, of Arkan..
First Vice-President, S. L. PAS
son, of North Carolina.
Second Vice-President, j. W
of Louisiana.
Secretary, Royal Daniel, of Gen,
gia.
The reader will find on ano+b.
page the thoughtful speech of pros
J. A. Holmes, of our State Uniro-
sity, delivered Wednesday night -
is "a useless formality to ask ON
readers to read anything from H.
pen of Prof. Holmes. This addross
deals not with the good roads nroh
lem alone, but with a number -
other matters of vital interest to al
our people.
The speech of DR.. McCandless os
Georgia, on Thursday, excited much
interest, but we do not think b,s
radical position on some matters mat
with general approval. We do not
think, for instance, that the major
ity of those attending believe that
our welfare depends in keeping tho
Chinese in heathenism and the negro
in ignorance, or that it is impossible
for the races to live together in
peace. We believe that the hest
method of maintaining the suprem.
acy of our race and our people is bv
rising ourselves, rather than nv
efforts to keep weaker races down
But the agricultural features Of
the address we're thoroughly sane
and we regret that we are not now
prepared to re-publish the portions
relating to teaching the PRINCIPLES
of agriculture in our schools.
DR.. George T. Winston spoke on
Education for Farmers" This ad.
dress will be published in The Pro.
gressive Farmer of next week. It
covers different ground from that on
Industrial Education" in our last
issue, and is, we think, even more in
.teresting.
Prof. Digger, of Alamance, pre-
sented a paper on "Leguminous
Crops" in which he set forth the
value and simplicity of incubation.
This is of unusual interest to farm.
ers and we hope to publish the paper
in full.
The report of the committee on
fertilizer laws brought up
matters of great Importance. We
have already referred to it.
Prof, w, F.. Massey and Prof. Won
addressed the convention,
the former discussing forage crops
and the latter the weather.
On Friday morning, DR.. Cooper
Curtice, State Veterinarian, talked
on stock and stock diseases, giving
special attention to Texas fever. DR..
Curtice is an ardent advocate of the
stock law and believes that with it
it will be quite easy to stamp out
ticks. In present stock law sections
he thinks 95 per cent. of the cattle
are tick free. He asserts that no
community having once tested the
stock law, ever returns to the old
system. Showing the value of killing
ticks and getting outside the quar-
belt. DR.. Curtice said that
Henderson county has done this with
n the past year, and as a result her
3attlemen get 2 cents per Id. more for
their beef. The subject discussed
BY DIR. Curtice is one regarding
thousands have no well-de-
ined idea, and we hope to give his
in a later issue. DR.. Carey, OF
Alabama, discussed the same subject,
out we were not present.
Prof. Gerald MCCARTHY, of our
State Department Of Agriculture,
"Seeds and Seed Testing
As a result of his instructive address
md the testimony of DR.. Curtice as
the poor quality Of seeds sold in
small stores, the following resolu-
ions were passed
"Beso10ed, That this association
,ndorse the idea Of State inspection
# seeds in the interest of the pur-
'haser.
"2, That the association at its
resent meeting appoint a committee
draft a uniform law intended to
ecure effective control of the seed
market of the different States here
epresented, this committee to re-