The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-09
THE Farmers CONGRESS
WAS GREAT IN INTEREST
Great Series of Addresses Where Heard at the Three
Sessions Saturday

DR.. J. L. Burgess, North Carolina
Department of Agriculture Agrono-
mist-"Relation of Crop Varieties to
Soil Types"
Monday Afternoon.
Mrs. J.. c. Cunningham-"Rural
Life in the South"
Mrs. A. E. Whitaker, Washington,
D. C.-"Handicrafts in Rural Homes
Mrs. W. N. HUT, Raleigh-"Con-
servation Of Health in Rural Homes"
Prof. Franklin Sherman, Jr.
Monday Evening.
Prof. c.. L. Newman, Professor of
Agriculture North Carolina College of
Agricultur and Mechanic Arts
Prof. C. B. Williams. Director North
Carolina Experimental Station
Facts Concerning the Corn Plant"
Prof. w. n. HUT, North Carolina
College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts.
Tuesday.
Business sessions: Election of Off
GERS, action on resolutions. etc.
Morning Session.
The morning session of h Farm
ers' National Congress yesterday was
opened by First Vice-President Joshua
Strange, Of Indiana, for the purpose
Oh XDCOlI1QS SOHe business dlld1IS
before the formal opening. This bust
ness was the appointment of members
of the resolution committee, an in
complete list only being available, as
all the States had not yet acted in
making appointments.
The preliminary list of the Commit
tee or Resolutions has on it the names
of Messrs. Null, Alabama; Stockbridge,
Georgia; Kirby, Illinois; Robinson, In
diana; Morton, iowa; Jewett, Kansas;
OsWalt. Maryland; Feij, Minnesota;
Stewart, Missouri; Heeney, Nebraska;
Thompson, New jersey; Morris, New
York; Muir, North Dakota; Dunn,
Rhode Island; Kruger, South Dakota;
Reilander, Texas; Comic, Virginia.;
Marshal, West Virginia; Tusser, Wis
consin.
Following this Secretary Whitaker
read by titles the large number Of
resolutions which had been sent for
ward and these were referred to the
committee. These are: Labor and
tenant systems of the South, concern
ing organization among farm labOrers
and tenants, and the demonstration
work of the United States Department
Of Agriculture; F'avoring cooperative
storage as a means of maintaining
prices; Against any bounties or sub
sides without public accounting as to
the way such funds are spent; Favor
ing a parcels post. FaVOring denatured
alcohol distillers at experiment sta
tions; FavOring postal savings banks;
Against proposed income tax amend
ment Of constitutions; Opposing reduc-
ton of OleOmargarine tax: FavOring
agricultural extension work; Favoring
national care of the GuilfOrd Battle
Grounds; Asking Congress to investi-
gate prices of food supplies; Favoring
good roads movement; Opposing unre-
stricted immigration.
The formal opening of the morning
session was then had, President Cam
erOn calling the Congress to order, af-
ter which the invocation was delivered
by Rev. Milton A. Barber, rector Of
Christ Church.
President Cameron then announced
that it was with great regret that he
informed the Congress hat Hon.
James ilson, United States Secretary Of
Agriculture, was not present to speak,
that he had been called back to
Washington on business. He fe1ici-
tated the Congress OIL having had him
with it at Greensboro and Durham on
it's our of Friday.
Address by Hon. Shelton Williams.
President Cameron then introduced
Hon. John Shelton Williams, former
president and now a director of the
Air Line Railway, president
of the Georgia and Florida Railway,
and a bank president Of Richmond,
Va. In doing SO, Col. Cameron re-
ferred to him as a close friend with
whom he had been through some hard
fights, a young man who had doomed
as a prince of NANCE, once the
of a big railroad, a position
in which he hoped to see him
again, the president now of two rail-
roads and a bank, a mar holding his
and going forward. Continu-
s-~ 49, -A
ers had trouble with western roads in
rates, but hat the bankers had
no trouble when they wanted to meet,
but that he was glad to say that the
roads of the southeast had given fine
to the farmers: that Mr..
was of the class of men who
stood for h farmers interest.