The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-11-13
FARMERS CONVENTION.
Second Annual Meeting a Sue.
cess Resolutions Adopted
and Officers Elected.

November 7th, 1903.
President b. f. Allen had al.
ready organized and classified the
students according to counties, and
when the farmers came in they had
but to take the seats set apart for
persons from a given county. Ban
ners with the names of the coun-
ties upon them designated the
delegation of county or state, for
there were several states represent
ed in the student body.
The convention was a great sue
cess, and besides those present,
many letters were received from
persons expressing their desire to
be present, but who owing to the
losses occasioned by the floods,
found themselves unable to come.
The convention adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Whereas, We are living in a
state, a greater part of whose citi-
zens are engaged in agriculture
and kindred pursuits, and all of
whose citizens are affected there
by and
Whereas, we believe that educa-
ton is to prepare us for complete
living and that we shall not be
prepared therefore if we do not
teach our children the dignity Of
labor and show them the strength
and independence and manliness
that will result from ownership ;
be it
Resolved, That we deplore the
deepseated prejudice against farm
ing that exists among u people
that we shall encourage among
them agricultural and kindred pur-
suits, and shall endeavor to take
the element of drudgery out of it
and make it as dignifed as any
other trade or profession by en-
couraging a better and higher
standard of living by owning our
farms and equipping them with
the latest and best field and garden
implements by buying less and
producing more of what we use on
our farms; by diversifying our
crops and systematizing Il work
and calculating intelligently on our
expenditures by misunderstanding
the credit and mortgage systems
and any other practice that will
tend to ruin; by encouraging fruit
growing, stock and poultry raising
and breeding, canning ana dairy.
ing; by building good homes aud
making them comfortable and at.
tractive by subscribing for good
papers and magazines and keeping
our eyes open for the best markets f;
by building good churches and
school houses and asking for the
best and most competent teachers
and preachers by encouraging our
boys and girls to become ~peaceable
and good citizens and to make
themselves indispensable to the
communities in which they live.
Resolved further, That from re.
ports made here and now and from
testimony of those who have OBJ
served, because of special interest,
that the spirit which the first con
vention sought to inculcate and
the principles for which these con
v%entions stand, have already been
accepted and r being acted upon
by the colored farmers of the state ;
and that we continue but with re
newed interest and effort to organ
ize conventions in those counties
where there are enough negroes to
warrant it that we encourage and
urge exhibits of farm products here
as tangible evidence of the i'm.
provements we make in methods
and economy from year to year as
results of these conventions.
Resolved, furthermore, That we
thank DR.. B. F. Allen, president
of Lincoln Institute and president
Of the convention, for his cease
less interest and great efforts, and