The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-07-14

that Mr.. E. M. Williams of Monroe.
Mr.. Mitchell President of the Fifth
District Union, Prof. Adams. Presi-
dent Of the Fifth District Agricultural
SchoOl, and a number Of other prom
trent and enthusiastic farmers of the
Fifth are planning Three Days Far
mers' Convention at the Fifth Dis
tr!ct Agricultural School in the near
| future.
To outline the plan briefly, they
propose delegated meeting to con-
sist of three union and three non
union farmers from each county. to
be appointed by the County Agricul-
tural Chairman of each county. These
delegates and the speakers will be en-
tertained at the college. The speak
ers will be men Of State and National
reputation on farm subjects, and the
general public will be cordially in
vited. That the meeting will be an
immense success and productive of
| great good is a foregone conclusion.
Those farmers of the Fifth are people
who do things.
The efforts Of the State Agricul-
tural Committee, appointed by the
last State Union, have borne fruits all
over the State, but in no section more
ebundantly than in the Fifth District.
The committeeman from that Dis
tlict, Mr.. L. W. Jarman, of Porter
dale, has unquestionably done more
good earnest work, or had a more
fruitful soil in which to SOW, than al
most any man in the, State. At
sacrifice of his time and money he
has organized and enthused most of
the counties in his district, and this
meeting is just one of the results.
brother Jarman did not originate the
ioea OF this Farmers Convention in
the Fifth. but it Is the result of his
untirtng energy in arousing the Union
men Of his district to greater de-
sired to be real farmers.
more meetings of this kind. Need to
mix with their fellow farmers from
other communities. and to hear from
men who have given their lives to as.
cGrtaining facts relative to a better,
higher. and grander farming. The
average farmer is too prone to attend
nr conventions except those in front
OF the village store where he meets
nj one but his neighbors who are do.
Ing exactly as he is doing, and no
subjects are discussed but the wealth
er which is too wet or too dry, or the
grass Of which each claims to have
monopoly. The net results of these
village store conventions is to add to
the general gloom and to more thor
cughly convince the pessimist that
There aint nothing in farming no
how" Any meeting. institute, or
convention which will take the far
mer out to himself and his own i'm
mediate section, which will stimulate
discussion of real farming instead of
swapping hard luck stories, any trip
which enables the farmer to see how
other farmers of different communi-
ties or counties have solved some of
the problems which confront him, is
of untold good.
To the President of other district
Unions in the State we commend this
Plan to have a big district farmers
conference. Get your people togeth-
er Let the non-union as we'll as the
Union farmer. see that the Union
stands for things which touch his ev-
eryday life. which teaches him in
dividual independence, and which
makes him better farmer, a better
man and better citizen.
To the principals Of the different
Agricultural Schools we commend
this as one of the best plans to get
your school in touch with the people
for whose especial benefit it is sup
posed to be established. The success
o. our experiment farms, agricultural
schools and colleges will increase in
proportion to the efforts their direc-
tors make to get in close touch with
the plain everyday farmer. You can
not. gentlemen, affords to miss an
opportunity like this.-Southern Gull
tivator, for July IA.