The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-24
Hon. R. w. Scott, of Ala
nance, Unanimously
Named President.
PROF BURKETT SECRET TARY
President Winston's Notable Speech Yesterday
---Supt. J. Y. Joyner on the Outlook
---Prof Stevens and Prof.

The North Carolina Farmers Con-
over 400 farmers. not counting the peo-
vention closed its first annual meeting
yesterday at / O'clock DR.. Winston says
it has been a grand success, and that
pie attending the Summer School, had
been present.
At o'clock yesterday morning Prof. Y.
G. Burkett took his large audience to the
dairy and gave highly instructive and
interesting lecture on the TYPE and
Form of Cattle" with practical dem
onstrations from suitable living speci-
mems. He declared that North Caro-
lima was not producing the stock and
breeds she should, and made a mas
terly plea, not the old and experienced
farmers versed in growing, but to the
young men, to commence in this most
needed and most profitable business.
After his lecture the people went
back to the auditorium, and were
called to order by DIR. Winston,
who called Editor Clarence H. Poe
to the chair and the first speaker was
Prof TAFT Butler, who lectured on
The Cattle Industry Of the State -
Prof. Butler said that it was difficult
subject to speak on, because there was
no cattle industry in the State. First,
he said. we can never have cattle in
dustry in the State unless we have the
facilities in North Carolina. He re-
marked that the chief way to raise cat
tie was on grass, and that grass is es-
sential, the foremost question to an
swer, but North Carolina will not de-
vote her land to this purpose. The
South has been studying for 300 years
how to kill grass, and now it is high
time We were learning how to grow
and produce it. 1t is worth $40 per
ton, and we can raise more to the acre
in North Caroline t.lan in Iowa or any
other Northern State. not because of
the superior fertility of our soil, but
because we have nine months to grow
kt in.
Secondly, we need concentrated food
stuff. Look at the enormous waste.
There are 1000, 900 tons of fertilizer
per year, and 100000 of these are
cotton-seed meal. Here is tremend-
Gus leak. This cotton-seed meal might
be used for feed, instead of going into
the ground, and when corn was 40
cents a bushel fertilizer cotton-seed
meal was $35 per ton. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars are lost in this
way annually He said that it would
be criminal for him to advise any
farmer to go into this business for
immediate profits. because the work
must be accomplished gradually and
the soil must be changed, a thing not
done instantly.
At 1880 Prof. F. L. Stevens spoke
on PLANT Improvement" He en-
phasized the value of heredity in rails
ing all kinds of plants He said that
as we should be careful in raising
stock, using our best breeders, just so
should we select the seed that is most
productive and will yield the very best
quality of plant This is practiced in
Illinois with highly gratifying results.
Don't expect too much from this at
once. If only one more grain of corn
is added to the ear, there will be an in
crease of 5,250,000 bushels per year.
and eight bushels difference to the
acre.
On motion of DIR. Winston, the regu-
lar program was suspended to elect a