The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-15
MEETING OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FAR
MERS' STATE ALLIANCE.

,,., of nineteen years, but with It's annual meet
inc in Hillsboro last week the North Carolina
farmers State Alliance entered upon It's
+uantieth wear of continuous work, and with
briuht prospects ahead of its for much longer
arrer The number of counties represented was
1oroer than last year, the re-
MORT showed substantial increase in member
ship and the delegates had their faces to tie tu-
ture and not to the past.
Nor is it an evidence of hstlessness that there
WAS less business of general public interest at this
meeting than usual The business of the Order
!; running smoothly there no Quarrels or
Esnutes to be settled, no troublesome problems
bobbpd up and the delegates addressed themselves
unbampered to general routine work. And we
Shall now proceed with the story of what this rou-
time work was. On another page we are giving
President Graham's annual address IN tuil, and 1T
IS not necessary to summarize 1T here
The Committees.
The committees announced by the President
will Indicate the personnel of the body, and the
nature of the work falling to the several delegates
Those committee follows:
Demands and Resolutions.-Dr r. III. Speight,
Chairman. Edgecombe; j. r. Baldwin, Columbus; /;
H. c. Williams, Johnston; E. l. High, Wilson;
Geo f. Parrott Lenoir.
observation-disclosures H. Poe. Chairman, Wake;
s J, McLaurin. Cumberland; II. c. Green, Mar
tin: H. c. Haithcock, Warren.
Business Agency.-George f. Parrott, Chair
man. Lenoir; l. L. Jackson, Sampson; w. b.
Dorsett, Chatham; W. A. Graham, Lincoln.
Lecturing-T. P. Johnston Chairman, Rowan
H. NJ Lewis, Alamance; W. H. Stallings Frank
lin: G.. W. P. Gates. Orange.
Constitution and By-Laws.-W. A. Graham,
Chairman Lincoln; r. M. Parker, Harnett; j. j..
Joyner Nash.
observation-disclosures IT. Poe Chairman,
Wake: Geo. T. Lane. GuilfOrd; n. A. Howell,
Wayne.
Co-Operation With Other Farmers Organizations.
Among the resolutions adopted was one looking
IL, 4lo olIToF Far nrc'
Alliance one looking to the adoption of an insur-
ance feature in the Alliance one favorlng the es-
tablishment of an auxiliary agricultural school at
Alliance Headquarters, one endorsing the work
of the Southern Cotton Association. and one pro-
vding for quarterly crop reports from all County
Alliance Secretaries.
The resolution in regard to cooperation with
the South Carolina Alliance reads as follows:
"Resolved, That the North Carolina Farmers
State Alliance sends greetings to the South Caro-
lima Farmers Alliance and notes with pleasure
the determined efforts of the latter to rebuild our
Order in the Palmetto State.
-. That our Executive Committee be authorized
to confer with the South Carolina Executive Com
mittcc to any exchange of lecturers or other
plans of cooperation looking to the development
OF the Order in both States.
"3. That we hereby offer the South Carolina AL
hancemen the benefits of our safe and -estab-
hshed Business Agency on the same terms for all
cash business as are given our North Carolina
brethren"
The Alliance also listened with pleasure to an
instructive address by Prof. j. M. Sharp, Grand
Lecturer of the Interstate Tobacco Growers As
ISOLATION, and the Executive Committee was in
sruced to cooperate with that organization for
the promotion of the mutual interests of the two
societies. Prof Sharp, by the way, is young
man of unusual ability and earnestness, and will
be heard from again.
The Southern Cotton Association also naturally
came IN for it's share of attention, and was warm
E commended by President Graham in his annual
address while the following resolution, introduced
| the writer, was unanimously adopted:
Whereas cotton is the chief money crop of our
NOuthprn farmers and orr nrnSneritv Is denendent