The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-07-25
4 CONGRESS
Of FARMERS
THE 1909 SESSION TO BE HELD
IN NORTH CAROLINA IN NO.
VEMBER-LARGE DELEGATIONS
ARE EXPECTED.

The Farmers National Congress is
COMPOSED Of delegates appointed by
state officials, usually governors, To
rcLIesent their states. IL meets once
Ia year in different places for the con-
sideratiOn of agricultural questions
.Cf q national character. avoiding as
much as possible local problems,
which are better treated by state and
county meetings. Its program includes
addresses by prominent persons ana
leaders in different lines OF activity
beaTing on agricultural interests, ana
also the consideration OF resolutions.
The congress was organized in 1881,
and curing the first II years of its
existence il had three presidents. all
from the south: T J. Hudson, OF
Mississippi, Col Robert Beverley, of
Virginia, and Col. R F. Kolb, of Flor
ida and Alabama. Then the presi-
dency went in turn to Kansas, iowa.
Wisconsin, assSchusettS and New
York, returning 10 the south by the
recognition of Georgia. Then follow
ed president from Illinois and then
TIE office came south again, the pres
ent incumbent being from North
Carolina. The majority of vice pTeSi-
dents have also been from the south.
The congress has attracted to il
many agricultural leaders, some or
whom have been called to official pO-
sitions as above stated. EX-GCV-
Heard, of Wisconsin, than wnom no
one has done more for American Ag-
riculture, has held the office OF pres
ideDt, as has Hon. HaTvie Jordan, CT
Georgia, who did such magnificent
work in organizing the cotton grow
ers. The present president-Col. s.
Cameron, of StagYille, n. C.-has
t. In,
social, political, literary and religious
circles as well as in agriculture.
The secretary of the congress is
assistant in market milk investiga-
tions in the United States department
of agriculture.
South Represented.
The south has been we'll represent
ed IN the places where the congress
has met. Sessions have ben held in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Min
nescta, Georgia, Texas and Virginia.
The meetings of 1906, 1907 and 1908
were held in the west, and this year
the session is to be held in the south
and east. The beautiful, enteTprising
city of Raleigh, n. c., has been Sc
lected as the place for the next seS-
sion, which will begin Novmeber 3.
Meeting in North Carolina and
q
exceptionally large attendance from
the South is desired and expected.
Every state should have a delegation
and a large one, and there should be
alert interest to bring this about
Each of the last three sessions has
been in turn a record breaker, and
it is hoped that there will be no
weakening in the attendance and en-
thusiasm this year.
There should be a large attendance
not only to crafty local pride and to
show what this section can do to up
hold the interest in the congress, but
to be of material assistance in pro-
noting the interests of the congress
and in aiding American agriculture
Useful as is the congress in an edu-
cational way its greatest help to agri-
culture is through the resolutions
adopted. Resolutions from a body of
intelligent, representative. cOnserva-
tive farmers, from almost every state
in the union are bound to be inf1u-
entail. The influence depends much
on the number of states represented.
for each state has a member o. the
resolutions committee.
The congress has been a strong
factor in securing a national depart
ment of agriculture, The interstate
commerce commission, rural mail de-
livery, oleomargarine legislation,
freeing denatured alcohol from taxa
ton, increased appropriations for ag-
TiculturaI education.
The congress now stands for ex-
tension Of the parcels post, national
aid for good roads, improving inland
waterways, postal savings banks.
conserving natural resources. espec-
tally soil fertility and forests, feder-
al aid to secondary agricultural
schools
We hope for a large attendance this
year to press on the good work.
GEORGE NJ WHITAKER.
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