The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-14
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EXCURSION 10 B 3 4 { !; '.':'' J }
Demand One Hundred Thousand
Tor Experiment Station at
Il Blacksburg.

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8ls3 ROANOKE, VA q July 1s.---1 rive hun,-
dred 4 farmers, many OF them accom-,
panied BY their6wives or daughters, faced
Ex-Governor Tyler president Y OF the State
Farmers Institute, when he called the
second days' session to order at Q o'clock
this morning.
High water delayed some trains as
much as ten hours. and many delegates
who expected to reach here from the
II Southwest i at an early hour last eve
K ming did not get in Until Z this morning,
and some were even later. Tho con-
vention closed tonight with session
II in tho Y. M. G. a. assembly hail. q
The members will go 10 { Blacksbl1rg
3 tomorrow on a free excurslon and IN
spcct the equipment and the work Of tho
agricultural Experiment Station. This
3 will take the greater part OF L the DAY.
& luncheon will be served the visitors.
Ii Roanoke will be reached on the return at
HI o'clock, and tho delegates will leave
Il for their homes on the first trains.
VIZ The session OF tho convention has been
the most largely attended and In every
Of the farmers Of Virginia. Every sec sec.
a ton or tho State was represented, ana
nearly every county had q delegate, many
Of them several. III s5 z, 81
rho Southwest furnished the bulk OF the
representatives. OF course. but the South
n side, the Valley, Piedmont and Tide wafer
each held good delegation, Inc ad-s
dresses were, with scarcely an exec ption,
we'll suited to the audience. Practica-
1.i1 Jfuttp In characteristic
Ii 81 all Of them. 1t would take brave
4 man to get up before such an assemblage
n OF hard headed farmers and weave flnely
-apun theories into an address on any
q OF the emlnently practical subjects on
x the programme. OF, course, many OF {the
addresses especially those delivered ~
men in charge Of the work at the hsrl-
cultural experiment STATIONS. were scien-
b tific. but the science talked by these
men was science clothed In her simplest
garb. and the wayfaring farmer had no
4 troubles In understanding. S55
ssj333 4 farmers institute such ms this may
" be regarded as a farmers school. .Ihat 5le
i would be Impossible to find more earnest
:, and apparently more progressive pupils.
THE scientlfic farmers who are m charge
OF the work ut the experiment stations
nre in every case practical farmers also,
and the State institute is practically tho
OF availing themselves OF the results
OF the Investigations and experiments OF
these gentlemen n
The Resolutions. @3s5s
~ The convention elected officers to-day,
. but more important thanHthls action was
n the adoption OF resolutions declaring for
State aid in inducing laborers 70 imml-
crate from Eunope to Virginia, urging t!ie,
"a mt III d
schools. and declaring for an approprla-
tion Of a hundred thousand dollars Tor
the development OF the state College OF
Agriculture and Experiment Station at
the Polytechnic Institute.
Attention Is called to the success attain:
e ed In Missouri. Georgia and other South
crn states, with the belief expressed
iIthatEit can be successfully accomplished
in Virginia. :,
m anpropr,ntlon , Of $4,000 should !. be
.s made 4 ~ the next ], legislature for The
dsve,onn,ent ~ tha statcScollerc az A.
rIcnIt,irc and Experiment station. located
~ I7lacksburg. Tifty thousand dollars
~ this vii, Thc ren,lIred Il, comnlcte ana
en,1Inl The agricultural hall now building,
~ ~ a 4 vaor for 4 i,a 'nddIt,onal ma in.
tana zoo and sunnort ~ thc virrinIn az
nerirnent station az 0oo for q stock iudg-
;,,s, I,,vI,on..s :, ~; for harns and rond.
,vavs and so On far live stock narticn-
Iariv horses Al thc nrcsent fine the
facilities for obtaining an nrricultural
ncaflon IN VIRGINIA are NOT co,,nl To
thnse an iovnd ~ st,,dcnts IN otbar voca.
tinns and X mere fact that
= y nronr,a Ions 4 ranging from .1o.
M rp !, - d $4,000 have hecn made
~. ~, ~, 1900 49, i, =, hn .'rsur
st,tas shows III hn W., 1c,e rlv he in,n,rta nce
- a.r, S"IW ednoo t,nn and M sn,n'
ia, ~ tho ,;s!n .,,t Nnrot;lan,s Il tich now
confront this farmer urc being a,.pre-
81 ate md nntional aid to road maxim,
ia Z invoLc, ia /, I,c resolutions and |the
,,,nrL ~ prof Andrew NJ 4 so,,le and 2. nj,
Ss,,,tl,n, Assistnnt sccreIary In thc, ~
a.,tna.io, ~ "tba ,nstIt,,te {. wos birhiv
. .I,,rsed 5 "
= - ~ 90 *, ~. -,
ii; Ot1lcers E!eCteu.
THE resolutions disposed Of the follow
!, ING officers were re.electod:
) President. ex-governor j. Hoge Tyler,