The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
EMINENT MEN Of NATIONS
WILL DELIVER ADDRESSES

Col. Hcnehan Cameron, of Raleigh.
President of Great National Oroani-
zation Expects a Big Attendance Of
Deiegates-The Program Of the Ses-
sions Promising Much OF Interest.
While There Are 10 be Entertain
mcnts and Receptions, NitI, Visits
TO Durham, Greensboro, n Fer
haps to Draining District II North
Carolina.
To discuss matters Of prime I'M
p~ortance to the farmers of the entire
country there will assemble IN Ra~
leigh on Thursday Of this week the
Farmers National Congress in it's
tWenty-ninth annual session. The
program is one of great value and
with Il high water mark of one thou
sand one hundred delegates at Niadi-
son, Wis. last year, it is confidently
expected that the thousand mark will
be reached at the session in Raleigh,
(ie general dlteHuanCe DGllS from SIN
hundred to eight hundred.
The president OF the Congress is
Col. Benehan Cameron of Raleigh.
and it was through his influence that
The session this year was brought to
Raleigh. The State and the Capitol
City will give q warm welcome to
the Congress. and in Raleigh there
will be receptions and entertainments
that Will show in practical form that
the people of this city are glad TO
have the Congress meet here. On its
opening day, Thursday. there will be
welcome addresses on behalf OF the
city and State, that for the State to
be made by Governor Kitchin. At
night there will be q reception given
by the Capital Club.
The sessions of the Congress Will
be held IN Pullen Hall at the A. and
NJ. college and the program has on it
one day devoted to a visit to Durhom
to inspect the tobacco manufacturing
industry; to Greensboro to inspect the
cotton mill industry in the great
weave room of the Cone Mills and to
visit Guilford Battle Ground. An in
V~itatiOn has also been extended the
Congress 10 visit the drainage district
Of North Carolina along the PlnetoWn
cut off Of the Norfolk and Southern
Railway, to attend a corn growing
contest exhibit and barbecue at Wash
ington and to be present at a drain
age convention at New Bern.
Many able and distinguished speak
ers have consented to address the Con
gress. There will be in attendance
four governors, Hon. w. w. Kitchin,
OF North Carolina; Claude Swanson,
of Virginia; Governor Patterson, OF
Tennessee, and Governor Sanders, Of
louisiana. All of these gentlemen
have given more than the ordinary
amount of thought to problems of
Importance to the producing classes
problems which it is the ~istincti
province of the Congress to consider
and Valuable suggestions from them
are expected.
Among the speakers will be Hon.
Lee S.. Cverman, United States Sena-
tor from North Carolina; Dr. T.. a.
Alderman, president of the University
of Virginia.; DR.. J. A. Holmes, a oil
vision chief of the national geological
survey; Prof. w. +. Massey, the Well
known agricultural college worker
and newspap correspondent; Gar
enCe H. Poe, one of the leading agfl-
cultural editors of the South; Con-
gresham J. Small, DR.. S. A. Knapp, OF
the United States Department OF AZ
ricu1ture in charge of Southern larIn
management Investigations; MAJ. w.
A. Graham. North Carolina Commits
stone of Agriculture: r. II. Edmonos,
editor Of the Manufacturers RECORD
of Baltimore; Chief Justice Waiter
Clarke; Gilbert Pearson, State Secre-
t2ry Of the Audubon Society: LII.
Joseph HYDE Pratt, State geolosiSt.
In addition several of the professors
OF the A. and M. College Of Nortn
Carolina will speak.
WomeE's interest in the program
VIII &c isprssented by three speak