The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-29
WOMEN WILL HOLD
SPECIAL SESSIONS
At the State Farmers
Convention.
A NOVEL INNOVATION
Agricultural Building at A. & M. Col
Iege, First in the South, Erected
Exclusively for Scientific Agri-
cultural Education Purpose,
to be Dedicated Sept. 1st.

The biggest event of the remainder
of the year in Raleigh, next to the
coming of President Roosevelt, will be
the State Farmers Convention, which
will be held at the A. & M. College
from August 81 to September 2. This
is the third annual convention OF the
farmers of North Carolina, and it will
eclipse all others in attendance, in
struction and enthusiasm. treat prep
arations are making out at the college
for the entertainment of the conven-
ton. The dormitories will be put in
order next week. with ample accom-
modations for the farmers and their
wives The big dining room and Pull
len Hall will be ready for as many as
can come. Board and lodging will be
furnished for $1.00 a day.
The program of the convention is
being completed. The first session
viii be August 81 at noon in the Pui-
len building, when the speeches of
welcome will be delivered by Cover
nor r. B. Glenn and DIR. Geo. t. Win
ston. From then until the close of
the convention, Saturday. September
>, at noon, there will be a perfect
feast of entertainment and instruc-
ton. Sessions will be held not only
In the day time, but also at night.
Daily tramps of observation and study
will be made over the college and ex-
pertinent farm. The program will in
clude fer discussion the following sub
jects: Insect pests, diseases of plants
and animalsS breeds and care of sheep,
poultry, hogs, beef and dairy cattle,
forage crops, how to raise and handle
them, cultivation, fertilizers and their
use, cultivation and curing of tobacco,
corn culture, cotton farming.
Many of the farmers wives Will at
tend and a place on the program Will
be given them for the discussion OF
questions relating to the, farm and to
home life. This will be quite novelty
in a North Carolina convention. and
no doubt will prove both interesting
and instructive. 1t is an innovation.
and the ladies, who will include both
married and single, will have their own
instructors.
Friday, September l win be one of
the most attractive days. During the
morning there will be special sessions
by the woman's department, special
sessions by dairymen's association
special sessions by cotton, tobacco and
truck farmers. Friday afternoon Will
be devoted to the exercises of dedlca-
ton of the new agricultural building
Distinguished speakers will be present
from North Carolina and other states.
The occasion will be one long to be
remembered in North Carolina. 1t Is
expected that the attendance of far
mers from Wake county alone will
be anywhere from FIVE hundred to
thousand on Friday afternoon at the
fedicatory exercises. This Is the hrSt
building ever erected in the South eX-
olusively for agricultural instruction
1t is in some respects the handsomeSt
building in North Carolina. 1t is To-
Gated Immediately opposite the state
Fair Grounds on the highest hill near
Raleigh, visible from all directions
and commanding a far-Teaching pros
pect.
1t looks as if the farmers were com
ing at last to their own: their sons
Low have opportunities for education
hitting them especially for the bust
ness of farming. and our youth are
tea;nnSg to realize that farming
presents az many opportunities for
health happiness and wealth as any
ether business or profession.
IT may be doubted whether farm
ing was ever more prosperous in
North Carolina than today. The chief
trouble-and indeed the only trouble
now-is lack of labor. Commenting
on the prosperity of farming. very
Intelligent and careful observer yeSter-
dav said: Several causes have
contributed to make farming in our
state the equal of any other business,
among them may be mentioned; hrst,
the panic and hard times of 1892. ana
following years. causing economy and
Investigation of crops; second, the
Farmers Alliance, with its stores,
shutting off credit at other stores;
dhird, the A. & NJ. College, with its
great work of education and insplra-
ton; fourth, the State Department of
Agriculture, with its farmers institutes,
it's bulletins, it's experiments, and its
work on cattle and orchard diseases.
The coming Farmers Convention
and the dedication of the new agr1-
cultural building will mark the begin
ming of a new era in North Carolina,
the new era of scientific agriculture.