The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-04-14

credit, is that If a group Of persons
combine to furnish collective guar
antee, they could obtain on the security
of their guarantee, money at lower
rates of interest than they could OBJ
tain it individually. This cooperative
credit is used by the above systems in
the business of agriculture for the fol-
lowing reasons:
list. The provision of capital
I'D. The purchase of agricultural
requirements.
I'D. The preparation and sale OF
agricultural produce.
18th. Farm insurance.
THE congress arranged plans for
sending body of students, to consist
of two members, from each state in
the south, to Europe to thoroughly in
vestigate the methods there used, with
view to applying them to American
agricultural requirements.
Danish Dairyins.
Another event of the congress,
which should be made of great benefit
to the south, was the paper of Norris
Francis Egan, the United States envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipo-
tertiary to Copenhagen, Denmark, on
Danish Dairying.' Minister Egan
came from Denmark to attend the con-
vention. He showed how a ruined ma
ton, with the worst climate in the
world, and an unfertile soil, has de-
veloped into a great agricultural ma
ton.
Conferences.
Following the opening of the con-
gress, the first constructive work was
done by the conferences. These were
devoted to the consideration of water
ways. extension teaching in agricul-
ture, cotton handling and financing, the
Page bill, forests, good roads, real
estate, cooperative marketing, drain
age, and health. Each conference was
held in a different place, was organized
with president and secretary, and ad-
dressed by able speakers, followed by
informal discussions. The work was
very gratifying and instructive and
will be detailed in the proceedings Of
the congress.
Waterways Conference.
The conferences were to meet for
two days, but so great was the interest
in the waterway conference, which was
attended by delegates from Michigan,
Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina,
| Tennessee and the District of Column
| bia, that the sessions were held for
three days, and the resolutions intro
| duced on the floor of the congress.
| Among the speakers were United
| States Senator Francis G. Newlands
from Nevada, commissioners of cor
of Washington, Congressman John IL.
| Small, Of Washington, S. A. Thomp-
son, secretary of the national rivers
| and harbors congress, Washington. Nj.
| T. Bryan, chairman of the Cumberland
river commission of Nashville, Tenn,
| Thomas Wilkinson, president of the
| Upper Mississippi River Improvement
Association, Burlington, Iowa. w. X.
| Kavanaugh, president of the Lakes to-
the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association,
st. Louis, Mo-, and others.
Knapp Memorial.
| IAN afternoon was given in memory
! of DR.. Seaman A. Knapp, whose prac-
| teal work in agriculture has done so
much for the south. DIR. Knapp is the
| father of the corn and tomato clubs,
home canning, and demonstration
| work.
Gov. Harmon.
| con the night of April 9th, Gov.
| Judson Harmon, of Ohio, spoke on
| Agriculture as the Basis of the Ma
TONS Strength Milton Whitney, chief
of the bureau of soils of the depart
ment of agriculture, contributed val
liable paper on The Soil Resources of
the United States Every one inter
ested in the soil, should procure a copy
of this paper.
Section Meetings.
THE next constructive work of the
congress was lne S6CJlOn
which were devoted to sheep and goat
raising, horse and mule breeding,
southern pine beetle. apple and pear
| growth, beef and dairy cattle, poultry
| raising. nut growing. hog raising, small
gardens, and wood-lot maintenance.
| These section meetings were conduct
| ed as were the conferences.
| South Agricultural and Educational
Recovery.
/ "a fitting rliraaX the n0tira great
| program were two sessions devoted
firsf~ to The south's Agricultural Re
covery,' and second. The South's Edu-
| cational Recovery Men of note from
all the southern states compared the
| conditions in 1860 with those in 1910.
| These comparisons were marvellous
| and so favorable that every southerner
| should be filed with admiration and
| encouragement. And when they are
! known. new capital and people are
| bound to be attracted to the south.
Col. Collier.
THE program was closed by an adj
dress by Col. D. c. Collier. president Of
| the Panama California exposition, who
| came from San Diego, Cal, to say to
| the south. although he believed in the
west, that the south was the new land
of opportunity, the place for the young
man and the man of small means, and
| TO advise that every effort be made to
| bring through the south the 100000
| tourists annually who visit California.
| He said that 80 per cent of the western
/ tourists go and come via Chicago, and
/ only small percentage ever see the
| south.
I'm an article prepared for the
II Southern Agriculturist, Nashville.
said: The Southern Commercial Con-
gress is the clearing house OF the COM