Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-07-07
FARMERS NATIONAL CONGRESS-.
1000 Session to BE Held In North
Carolina In November.

to represent their States. 1t meets
once a year in different places for
the consideration OF agricultural
questions of national character,
avoiding as much as possible local
problems. which can be better treat
ed by State and county meetings. It's
program includes addresses by prom
inent persons and leaders in different
lines Of activity bearing on agricul-
tural interests, and also the consid-
Grafton of resolutions.
The Congress was organized In
1881, and during the first eleven
years of Its existence 1t had three
presidents-all from the South: T.
j. Hudson, of Mississippi; Col. r.
Beverly, of Virginia, and Col. r. +.
Kolb, of Florida and Alabama. Then
the presidency went in turn to Kan
sas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Massachusetts
and New York, returning to the
South by the recognition Of Georgia.
Then followed president from Illi-
nois, and then the Office came South
again, the present incumbent being
from North Carolina. The majority
of vice presidents have also been
from the South.
The Congress has attracted to 1t
many agricultural leaders, some of
whom have been called to official po-
sitions as stated above. Ex-Gover-
nor Hoard, of Wisconsin, than whom
no one has done more for American
agriculture, has held the Office of
president, as has Hon. Harvie Jor-
dan, of Georgia, who did such mag
nificent work in organizing the cot
ton growers. The present president
Col. B. Cameron, Of Stagville, N.
C.-has 1000 acre farm and is
prominent in social, political, liter
ary and religious circles as we'll as
in agriculture.
The secretary of the Congress is
assistant In market milk investiga-
tions in the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The South has been well repre-
sented In the places where the Con-
gress has met. Sessions have been
held In Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Minnesota, Georgia, Texas and
Virginia. The meetings of 1906,
1902 and 1908 were held in the
West, and this year the session is to
be held in the South and East. The
beautiful, enterprising city of Ra-
leigh, n. c., has been selected as the
place for the next session, which will
begin November g.
Meeting in North Carolina and
with North Carolina president, an
exceptionally large attendance from
the South is desired and expected.
Every State should have a delega-
ton and large one, and there
should be alert interest to bring this
about. Each of the last three ses-
sions has been in turn a record
breaker, and it is hoped that there
Will be no weakening in the attend
ance or enthusiasm this year.
There should be a large attend
ance, not only to crafty local pride
and to show what this section can
do to uphold the interest In Con-
gress, but to be of material assist
ance in promoting the interests of
the Congress in aiding American ag-
riculture. Useful as is the Congress
In an educational way its greatest
help to agriculture is through the
resolutions adopted. Resolutions
from a body of intelligent, represen-
tative. conservative farmers, from
almost every State in the Union, are
bound to be influential The influ-
ence depends much ON the number of
States represented, for each State has
member Of the resolutions COM
mittee.
The Congress has been a strong
factor in securing national depart
ment of agriculture, the interstate
commerce commission, rural mail
delivery, oleomargarine legislation,
freeing denatured alcohol from taxa
ton, increased appropriations for
agricultural education.
The Congress now stands for ex-
tension Of the parcels post, national
aid for good roads, improving inland
waterways, postal savings banks CON
serving natural resources, especially
soil fertility and forests, Federal aid
to secondary agricultural schools.
We hope for large attendance this
year to press on the good work.