The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-26
A CIRCUIT IS
important Meeting of
Workers at Columbia
Commissioner Patterson and Mem
bers of the State Department
Back from the Convention.
Its Work and Plans for
Ions

Commissioner of Agriculture S. L.
Patterson, State Chemist b. w. Kill
gore, MI. T. B. Park er and Miss Bird
song, of the State Department of Agri-
culture, and Mr.. G. b. Williams. of the
Experiment Station, returned yester-
day from Columbia, S. c., where they
attended the ninth annual meeting Of
the Southern States Association Of
Commissioners of Agriculture and
other Agricultural Workers, which
has been in session during the past
three days. MIR. Kilgore was secretary
of the meeting n Miss Birdsong re-
ported the proceedings, which viii be
published in pamphlet form and dis
Tibuted throughout the southern
States.
Farmers cooperative demonstra-
ton work occupied a considerable
part of the time of the convention. a
number of important papers giving
plans and results Of work being pre-
5ented, end the discussion was also in
tcrestine. Mr.. T. b. Parker. who IS
just beginning this work in connection
with the State Department of Agricul-
ture, presented a ape which attract
ed much attention and favorable COM
ment. This line of work in the South
has been confined largely to the
States affected by the cotton boil
weevil and has been carried on under
the AUSPICES of the United States De
partment of Agriculture and the
Southern Education Board. North
Carolina is the first of the Southern
States to begin active operations on its
own part in this work, the plan being
to use the results of the experiments
on the test farms and experiment sta
ton and carry them to the individual.
farmer.
Methods employed III tne extermin-
alton of the Southern cattle tick and
the progress made in this work during
the present year by the several South
ern States and the National Govern
ment were freely and fully discussed.
AS the result of this years efforts an
area equal to one and one-half times
the size OF the State of North Caro-
lima has been freed of the tick and
preliminary work has beer done on a
great deal more territory which will
make the determination of this pest
on that area easy another season. IN
North Carolina practically ten cOun-
ties were covered. There was great
unanimi in the passage of a resOlu-
ton asking Congress to appropriate
five hundred thousand dollars for the
prosecution of this work for the COM
ing year, in cooperation with the
States in the Association. The ap-
preparation last year was one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. The As
soCiatio1 was the first organized body
to take up actively the campaign for
the determination of the tick and, it
is due largely to it's influence and eff
| forts that congressional aid has been
obtained Dr.. Butler. of the North
Carolina Department of Agriculture,
was specially active n influential in
connection with this matter.
Papers and reports were presented
on the progress of work in the regu-
latiOn of the sale and adulteratiOn of
human foods and stock feeds ono of
these being by DIR. kilgore and Mr.. c..
d. Harris. Proposed uniform laws on
these subjects were considered, with a
view of having them the same in the
Several States covered by the asSOcla-
ton. The food law. with slight eX-
ceptions presented by Mr.. Masruder.
chief chemist of the Department of
Agriculture in Virginia, was the same
as the North Carolina State law, and
the law governing the sale of stock
feeds and continental and proprie-
tary feeds were practically the same
as those now in effect in this State.
A lecture with lantern views was
given by Mr.. I. Gilbert Pearson, Of
Greensboro, and vas received With
great enthusiasm.
A number of the workers of the
United states Department of Agricul-
ture were present II a splendid adj
dress was delivered by Assistant Sec
rotary of Agriculture Hays on
Country Life Education" 1t had
special reference to the establishment
of district agricultural schools.
The association was we'll tende
bv representatives from nearly all of
the cotton States, and it was ~altOgeth-
er a most enthusiastic and valuable
meeting. Commissioner Patterson
served on a number of important COM
mittees and took part IN the discus
SiOnS.
The Convention was entertained at a
reception by Governor Ansel ana Inc
Chamber of Commerce showed 1t Col
umbia and vicinity on a trolley rae.
and Commissioner Watson entertained
the members at the Country Club.
The next meeting will be held IN
Nashville. Tenn.
The officers for the coming year are:
Commissioner T. G.. Hudson. Of Geor-
gia, president; H. e. Blakesiee. or
Mississippi, and r. Z. Rose, of FLORIDA,
Independents; b. w. kilgore, RAJ
eigh, Sec1 etary-treaSury.