The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-05
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FARMERS NATIONAL CON-
GRESS-LEADERS IN GREAT
WORK.
Sessions Will Ie Held in RALEIGH From
November Three to Nine and the
Entire Country Will Be Represented.
The meeting of the greatest OF
farmers associations, the Farmers
National Congress, is to be held III
Raleigh November SO, this being the
twenty-ninth annua session. There
will be thousands in on
the meeting and a preliminary pro-
gram, with announcements, has. just
been issued by the president. Hon.
Benehan Cameron, of Raleigh, and the
secretary, Mr.. e M. Whitaker, OF
Washington, d. G.
The session will open Wednesday af-
%ternoon, November 8, in Pullen Hall
at the A. & NJ. College, and h inVo-
cation will be offered by Right Rev.
Joseph Blount Cheshire, Bishop Oh
North Carolina. Addresses of welcome
will be delivered on behalf Of the State
and the city by Governor kitchin, and
the president Of the Chamber OF Com
merce, Dr. Hubert A. Register, dean of
the Medical College of the University
Of North Carolina. There will be re-
sponses by Hon. Joshua Strange, vice
president of the congress-, and others.
In thep Preliminary announcement, the
following information is given:
-Four governors will honor the con-
gress with their presence-HOn. ". ".
Kitchin, of North Carolina; Hon.
Claude Swanson, of Virginia; Cover
nor Patterson, Of Tennessee, and Gov
ernor Sanders, of Louisiana. All of
these gentleman have given mora than
the ordinary amount of thought to
problems Of Importance to the produc-
ing classes-problems which it IS the
distinctive province of the congress to
gather.
Hon. Lee S. Overman, q. S. Sena-
tor from North Carolina, will be
another prominent speaker. He has
had long experience both in State and
national Legislative work and along
educational lines as trustee of the State
University. DR.. Edw. A. Alderman,
president Of the University of Virginia,
will address the congress-, and another
speaker will be DR.. J. A. Holmes. a
division chief of the national geological
survey. Other speakers will be Prof.
". F. Massey, the we'll known agricul-
tural college worker and newspaper
correspondent; Clarence Fl. Poe, one
of the leading agricultural editors CT
the South; Congressman J. NJ. Small;
DR.. S. A. Knapp. of the Z. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, in charge of
Southern farm management investiga-
lions: Prof. w. A. Graham, N. c.. Com
missioner of Agriculture; r. III. Ed
monds, editor of the Manufacturers
Record of B~altimore; Chief Justice
Walter Clark; Gilbert Pearson, State
secretary of the Audubon Society, and
DR.. Joseph Hyde Pratt, State g~eOlogist.
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will be Illustrated. In addition, several
of the professors of the A. & NJ. Col
lege at Raleigh will add greatly to the
value and interest of the program.
"Women's interest in the program
will be represented by three speakers
Carolina; Mrs. Alice E. Whitaker, Of
Washington. D. c., and Mrs. W.. n.
HUT, of North Carolina. Mrs. Cunning
ham is a graceful writer and an
author of prominence. Mrs. Whitaker
is a domeStic-science writer and
prominent Massachusetts club oma
Mrs. Hutt is a popular institute lee
turer of the North Carolina Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
zone session of the will be
devoted to DISSATISFACTION Of Off
GERS and discussion of resolutions. OPP
portunity will be given to question the
speakers, and a question box will be
provided. At some time during the
meetings there will be a roll call of
State When some one from each State,
selected by his delegation, will be
given ten minutes to discuss any sub
ject of a national agricultural charac-
ter.
There will be an excursion to Dur
ham and Greensboro to see something
Of the wonderful development Of the
South during the past few years, par
t~icularly along the lines of cotton and
tobacco manufacturing.
There is no restriction on the num-
Der of delegates that q be appointed
by the Governor Of any State. The
voting strength of the State is the
number of its Senators and Represent
atives plus the number of it's State
a~gricultura1 Institutions. The aforesaid