The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-17

fOp1e Odum company, st. PaulSs, Robe
Ison county, to manufacture lumber. six
Thousand dollars, the Greensboro Elks
Lodge company, fifty thousand dol
lars; David Dreyfus and others stock
holders; the Merchants Wholesale
Grocery company, Mocksville, one hun
dred thousand dollars; the Hood Drug
iCo., Kenly, $4,000.
Inc executive committee of the North
ICarOlina division of the Southern Cot
ton association this afternoon met IL
the college building and elected A. J.
Mckinnon, Laurinburg, president Of
1.-THE association, G. G. Moore. having
some time ago resigned TO enter the
political race in Mecklenburg county.
Mr.. Moore will not give up his work
with the association, but will continue
to be one Of the moving spirits OF
that body. and will do much during the
looming months until the plans now on
foot shall have been put into success
lful application.
The meeting of the farmers Of the
tobacco section did not meet this morn
ling as specially arranged, but will as
ISemble tomorrow at 10 o'clock. The
members Of the cotton section were es-
!pecfallv we'll organized today and lis
tened TO addresses that were possessed
LOT great merit and some of them Ct
ipOWer with the growers. One OF the
Ichiefest addresses was that Of X. ".
lLiyermOre, who spoke on the cotton
situation. He called on the farmers il
a message TO typhoid the cotton 23oD-
IciatiOn, and thus 10 upbuild the STATE.
THE production Of cotton he reckOrei
as a monopoly. whether the rest of IN
world would or not and stressed the
Stewardship Of such in the hands ana
Icare Of the people of the south. The
matter of WarehOuSing was Il Sugge5-
tive thought running through the dis
course, and the organization and up
holding by a more active cooperation.
THE talk was filled with common rs
land was relieved Of any tedium that
would creep into many such speeches.
Prof. c. NJ. COnnOr, who had been
Igiyen place on the afternoon program
presented in clear and decided way the
'PrOblems in Soil Management and
Better Methods of Farming He de
inOunced in unqualified terms the farm
Iers who buy and continue to buy all
sorts of fertilizer regardless Of brand
ling, hen there are only the dozen
lSimple elements that enter into the
IcOmpOunding of all such WheresOeVe"
made. He warned the farmers a2linS-
Iall such and appealed to their bette"
sense toward Il more proper care Of the
LANDS, a deeper ploughing and Slrer
cultivation, and a common sense appli-
ication of such fertilizers as may be
needful of application from year to
inc+ao1 of q u-h01aCa1a tossing
lover the earth of shop fertilizers Of
which they know absolutely nothing.
THE farmers were called On 10 Oeein
ito employ machinery for farming in
lieu of so many hands especially at 4
time when labor is scarce and the ma
Ichine can be made to accomplish so
much.
Hon. Ashley Horne responded TO
Icall by the president of the association
and delivered a speech of a few min
utes that won and brought forth tbs
appreciation of all the audience. Mr..
Horne spoke plainly and without notes
land preparation. He went straight to
1.-THE root of many Of the evils that per-
lplex the farmer. His words We're more
in the spirit Of a statement of oNpe-
rience and to tell how others might
proft by some of the blunders farmers
ARE wont to make. The main point he
established was that a great majority
of the farmers in buying supplies over
buy and thus deplete their resources,
land are always called on to pay a
double toll for all they take upon
themselves in the way of added ia
Utilities. He advocated farmer holdings
lin cotton mills and other industries,
land the establishment of a scale to
themselves whereby they would live
within their own bounds and would
ihaye finally a surplus TO invest in
Isome of the many n through
(which they may climb to gain in poll
tics, and in social life, and in all the
conditions which daily confront them.
lat the close of tbs speech, on motion
of Col. J.. Bryan Grimes, it was voted
lone of the best addresses ever doliV-
iered on a floor before assembled farm
Iers. and by a vote that was unanimous
lit was ordered committed to writing
for general preservation and cirCula-
ton by the officers of the association.