The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-02-28
farmers l!+ INSTITUTE
RIM ROW At FRANKFORT
Two Conventions Held And Both
Elect Officers And Members of
Board Of Agriculture.

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State Farmers Institute got into a
row Tuesday that resulted in the
withdrawal of President T. j. Bigger
staff, of Mt. Sterling, and his friends
from the convention and two institu-.
ties were held, the regular meeting
being called to order in the Federal
Court room by Commissioner of Ag-
riculture j. w. Newman and the rump
meeting by President T. J. Biggstaff
of the State Farmers Institute. in
the Frankfort opera house.
Each body elected members of the
State Board of Agriculture, Forestry
and immigration for the Fourth and
Sixth Appellate Districts, and ap-
pointed committees on Credentials,
Legislation and Resolutions.
There were no signs of revolt
when Commissioner Newman raped
for order shortly after IL o'clock.
and the walk-out did not take place
until after the Rev. Roger T. Nooe,
Of the Frankfort Christian church,
delivered the invocation.
How the Trouble Started
AS soon as the Rev, Mr.. Nooe had
taken his seat President Biggstaff
arose and addressing the chair,
said:
'Do You propose to preside at this
meeting in place of the regularly
elected president of the Kentucky
State Farmers Institute" to which
Commissioner Newman replied:
"There is no president to preside
until one is selected"
No sooner had the Commissioner
spoken than the march to the opera
house started! President Bisystair
leading the way, followed by some
twenty-five delegates and others.
The work of the regular institute
was then taken up in earnest, May
or j. H. PolSgrove delivering the well
come address, followed by Hon M.
]. Hennessey, Of Bracken county,
who sarcastically said in closing his
response:
81 am glad to see the Farmers In
stitute taken out Of politics and am
glad to see the politicians leave the
institute"
Regulars Elect Officers.
The regular institute elected Hon.
]. r. Zimmerman, of Bullitt county,
president; Charles Marvin, Of Scott,
county, vice president; Jack Cole
man, of Carroll county, second vice
president and Harry McCarty, OF
Nicholasville, secl ctary.
Rump Convention Elects
The rump convention reelected the
old officers Of the institute as fol
lows:
T. J. Biggstaff, Mt. Sterling, presi-
dent; C. NJ Barnett, Hartford, frs
vice president; W. T. Chiffon, Camp
bellsburg, second vice president
John C. Blair, Carlisle, third vice
president; ]. S. Cassidy, Inez, treas
urer; P. NJ. Shy, Paris, secretary.
Upon the re-assembling of the In
stitute at 2 o'clock in the afternoon
Hon. E. E. Barton, of Falmouth, de
livered an interesting address ol
"The Value of Sweet Clover" H
| SAID lie Hdu Htlu tHdL has Uecl
worn, from years of cultivation il
corn and tobacco, and that it Wa
next to impossible to get stand o
either grass or clover, but that swee
sclover made a good stand and grey
ltxuriantly. TIT Y.,F
Mr.. Barton said sweet clover wa
the king of. the legume family, gath
ering and storing nitrogen in the sol
and rehabilitating tired fields. AS
producer of humus and giver of en-
ergy to soil bacteria it had no equs
and when planted was tonic to tire
; and wasted soils.
5 Mr.. Barton said field we'll set i
r sweet clover would produce thirt
tons per acre of green materia
: which, when plowed under, wa