The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-04

WAS Left to Board OF DirectOrS-O.
B. Martin on Agricultural lnstrHc-
fion-Prof. Jones on Necessity for
Answering the Census ScOrc-Dr.
Billiard on Extension Plan Of Rurai
Schools-Dr. Eliot's Address.
Especial to News and Observer
Charlotte, Dec. 30.-Hon. j. \. JOY
ner, chairman of the nomination COM
mittee, announced this morning short
ly before noon that his committee was
ready to report. Before making this
report, however,, I would like to say
stated Mr.. Joyner, las to that invita-
ton from Florida for the next con
vention, which was partly based on the
bitter cold weather of Charlotte, that
we had this weather just to show these
Southern folks what We are capable
of and as to our northern friends who
are here why we just thought it would
be the soul of hospitality if We could
go everybody else one better, and
ave even their weather, the lind they
are accustomed to. Therefore, this
fcycle Weather is just complimentary
both ways. You can't pea North
Carolina"
The following nominations were
then read by Mr.. Joyner, and on mo-
ton, Secretary Bierley was instructed
to cast the vote of the whole asso-
citation for the following, " h were
then declared elected for the ensuing
year:
President. DIR. D. B. johnson, presi-
dent of Winthrop College. Rock Hill,
S. c..
First vice-President, Chancellor J.
Fl. Kirkland, of Vanderbilt Univer-
sity.
Second yice-president, G. E. Glenn.
Superintendent of Education, Rirming-
ham.
Third vice-president, J. S. Crabbe,
state superintendent, Of Kentucky,
who, so retiring president Van Sickle
OF Baltimore, declared, could move
both ways, and that's why YOU are
named Crabbe and you deserve it.
treasurer, e. p. Burns. of Atlanta,
The nominating also re-
ported the following names for mem
bers of the elective board Of direc>
tors, one from each State:
Thach, of Alabama.
Doyce, of Arkansas.
Holloway, of Florida.
Pound. of Georgia.
Cassiday, Of Kentucky.
Harris, of Louisiana.
Buckner. Of Maryland.
Todd, of Missouri.
Wh1teield, of Mississippi.
Prof e. G. Brooks, Of Trinity Col.
1ege, North Carolina.
Cameron, of Oklahoma.
IL. n. Snyder, Of Wofford, South
Carolina.
Bailey, of Tennessee.
Cousins, Of Texas.
j. Il. arnan Of Virginia
ShaWkey, of West Virginia.
crosby, OF the District of Columbia,
o.. 8. Martin, formerly of South
Carolina, represented the AGRICULTURAL
department. at Washington, and told
the association of the methods to be
ADOPTED to give agricultural instruc-
tlon to that vast army of youth who
go 40 further than the high school
Wh1le Prof. Thomas Jesse Jones, OF
the census bureau, explained the nee
esslt! OF the farmers, especially, an
SWerlng the several score questions
tnat Will be put to them by census
enu~merators next spring. the purpose
beng TO compile the most complete
set OF agricultural statistics the Fed
eral government has ever gotten to.
gether.
DR.. j: II. billiard of the Jeames
foundation New Orleans, discussed the
extension plan for rural schools.
nc doSoCIAtiOH COulO not 1OrDeal
calling upon DR.. Eliot for anothe,
1mpEomptu address this morning anf
this distinguished man replied declar
ing that whereas the acquisition O
a~grlcultura knowledge increased tn
farmers material comforts immense
~ 1t was the accompanying prepare
tlon for the better way of living tina
counted most. The greatest thing O
all Is the acquiring of the maane q
human happiness and the growth q
the higher life. One may have hroa.
acres, q happy family and the neces
sites and the many ~luxuries of liz,
on the farm, but there is still some