The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-01
A SUCCESSFUL SESSION
Today They Will Make Tour of
the State.
THEN THEY WILL LEAVE TOa THEIR HOMES
Farmers Urged to Market Their Cotton Crop
Slowly. A Movement Fer Some Legisla-
zion Looking 10 lnsuring the Sale
Of Better Seed.


The second annual convention of
the Association of Agricultural Com
missioners of the South came to a
close last night.
This morning the delegates will
visit the North Carolina College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, the
State Experiment farm and other
points of interest about the city, af-
ter which they will leave for trip
through the State as the guests OF the
North Carolina Department of Agri-
culture. The party will consist of ten
persons, including DIR. Capehart, and
either commissioner Patterson or Sec
rotary Bruner and the visiting COM
missloners and officers of the asso-
citation. They will leave here Satur-
day afternoon, in a private car at 81 so
o'clock and will spend Saturday night
i'll Greensboro, leaving Greensboro
Sunday morning to arrive at Ashe-
vile Sunday afternoon. Sunday night
will be spent at 1,sheville and Monday
they will go to Biltmore and spend
the day. they win return to Asheville
Monday night and reach Raleigh
Tuesday afternoon at 1923 O'Clock.
The next session of the association
will be held at Hot Springs, Ark, in
the early part of October, the selec-
ton of the exact date being left to
the executive committee.
Most,of yesterdays session was de-
voted to a discussion of the live stock
industry, seed testing and the encour-
agement of immigration to the South.
Addresses were delivered and pa
pers read as follows;
Live Stock Sanltation," by DR.. Cur
tice, of North Carolina, and DR.. Carey,
OF Alabama.
Agricultural Conditions" by Com
missloners Lee, of Louisiana, and Hill,
of Arkansas.
Seeds and Seed Testing by Prof
Gerald Mccarthy, of North Carolina.
Immigration in the South, by
John w. Thompson, of North Carolina.
The most important action taken
during Yesterdays session was the
passage of a resolution in regard
10 marketing the cocoon crop, the
adoption OF some recommendations
looking to control of the sale OF seed
and the incorporation of an amend
ment to the bylaws, providing for
payment of the incidental expenses
OF each annual session by assessing
pro rata each State represented III
the association.
The resolution adopted urges upon
the cotton growers the Importance OF
distributing the sale of cotton over the
entire wear so that the market may
not be depressed by dumping the en-
tire crop upon it at once; and to the
end that the farmer may keep inform
ed as to the statistical situation OF
the crop, the departments of agrlcul-
ture are requested to give out to the
press from time to time any informa-
ton they may have touching the CON
dition of the crop, the acreage plant
ed or the stock on hand.
The recommendation in regard to
the sale of seeds are as follows:
Il. That this association endorse
the idea of State inspection of seeds
in the interest of the purchaser.
49, That the association at its pres
meeting appoint a-eetafHittee to
draft uniform law intended to Sc
cure effective control of the seed mar
kct of the different States here repre-
scented, this committee to report at
the next meeting Of the association.
The committee appointed in accord
ance with the above consists of Nc
earthly, of North Carolina; Digger, OF
Alabama; Herrick, of Mississippi; and
Scott, of Georgia.
THE MONING SESSION.
The morning session began at 1G
o'clock and continued until /, when Il
recess was taken until 4.
Affer fbn 1.p1fltpT Of the minufpS
of thursdays meeting, and the APP
pointment of Misses Mamie Birdsong
and Lucy Rives as assistant secreta-
ries, reports of committees were de-
clared in order.
The executive committee announced
tlat no meeting had yet been held,
but that it would make its report
later in the day.,
Commissioner Patterson, of North
Carolina, from the Committee on Leg
islation, reported that the effort of
the commissioners to secure newspa-
per rates in the mails on publica-
tons of agricultural departments had
been successful Congress having
passed an act granting. pound rates
on bulletins and scientific publications
by the departments.
At this oint Commissioner Red
head, of Mississippi introduced a res
olution that provoked considerable
discussion, but was finally so amend
ed as to pass without opposition. This
resolution was as follows:
Whereas the time will soon arrive for
the marketing of the next cotton crop,
and whereas the judicious handling OF
the cotton crop as evidenced by last year,
when the crop was only sent forward
as the demand called for it, has resulted
in great good to the cotton farmer, there
fore be It
Resolved. Ttat this association of
Commissioners of Agriculture of the Coz
ton States endorse and heartily urge a
continuance Of the policy.
BE it further resolved, SO the farmer
may be informed of the statistical posi-
tion of cotton during the shipping sea-
son, that the department of agriculture
of each State be required to furnish such