Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-17
ENGINEER WILL REPORT
ON SWAMP LAND SURVEY
Special Meeting Has Been Extensive
~ Advertised, and Farmers from
All over Tdewater Section Are
Expected TO Attend--pr. Ferney.
housh Discusses Cattle Quarantine.

The second annual agricultural SEES
sion of tie Chamber OF Commerce
will he held at me Olympic theater
Washington avenue and Thirty-second
street, today from $3.50 O'Clock to 2
o'clock and all indications point to
successful meeting. NiDe experts OF
the nakional and State departments OF
agriculture are to deliver practical
addresses which should prove OF great
interest and value 10 farmers and II
is expected that farmers from almost
every section of Tidewater Virginia
will be on hand TO hear them
Ilr, ]. q. Ferneyhough. the State
veterinarian; w. ID. Saunders. head of
the State dairy and pure food com
miss ion, b. Morgan Sheppard. busi-
ness manager OF the Southern Plant
err. of Richmond. and ]. o. Sandy,
State agent bureau of plant indus
try. United States department OF az
riculture. who are 10 deliver addresses
al the agricultural session. arrived
here yes terday and are the guests OF
D. s. Jones at his home on West ave
nue.. The other speakers will arrive
here early this morning
Swamp Lane survey.
Engineer George W. Warren, OF
the bureau of drainage. United States |
department of agriculture. who has
been surveying the swamp lands |
north a. this city. will give the re-
suits. OF his Investigation of the drain |
age OF ths, land In an address to the
session Mr.. Warren went carefully |
ov,r the ground Tuesday and on
Wednesdayaseeur surveys. levels,
etc. of the land from Engineer Wag- !
ner. of the Old Dominion Land Com |
pany. Later he inspected Salter's |
creek through which 1t is proposed
to drain the land In question. Mr..
Warren returned to Washington We'd |
nestsy night 20 secure aid In making |
up blue prints and drawings and COM
piling other data on the survey. lie |
will return here early this morning |
TO make his address at the agricui- |
tural session.
w. ID. Saunders. OF the State dairy |
and pure food commission. has ac-
tepted an invitation to deliver an
address ON "Dairying" before the az |
ricuitural sos. ion. b. Morgan Shsp-
Hbtu. vi ttt dicO 1
has accepted an invitation to speak |
nj the meeting.
o. l. Goodrich agriculturist 10 the
United States department of agricul- |
turc. who also is 10 speak az the ses-
sion. arrived Yesterday from Wash |
ington and is the guest of John Sug-
Den at the Hampton Normal and Ag-
risulturai Institute. Mr.. Goodrich !
formerly was director OF the agricui- |
trral department at the Hampton In
stisiie
Hundreds o. Farmers Expected.
The agricultural session has been !
extensively advertised on the penins,l- |
Ia and Eastern Shore and on the 9th
err side OF James river. Several hun
dred farmers from those sections are !
expected to attend the session and /
the probabilities are that thcs;er viii
be wei flied when the session opens |
at $50 O'Clock.
Tic teachers and instructors in the |
agriC uitGral department Of the Hamp- |
ton Institute will attend the session |
in BODY aud practically all OF the
farmers OF the Mennonite colony near
L. Hall will attend
Following is the complete program
OF the ses. ion
s::o a. m. address. ~Poultry"-C. X