Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1912-10-09
WHAT SOME FARMERS WANT.
Resolutions Adopted 8y North Carolina
State fafHfsfs Convention.

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Raleigh, August ~, % and 20,
1912 The North Carolina State
Farmers Convention, in annual
session assembled, August 1920,
1912, through it's com mittee offers
the following RESOLUTIONS:
| /. We recommend that the
next session of the legislature pass
ap act authorizing a state wide
deg tax, the proceeds of which to
be appropriated to school fund.
2. Resolved, that we. favor q
state wide stuck law for North
Carolina.
3. That We favor the discussion
of scientifis marketing along with
scientific production at the Inst1-
tutes.
4. Resolved, shat we desire to
express our appreciation of the
co-opsratlon between the State
Department of Agriculture, the
4 & NJ. College, aud the U. S..
D9p4ra Of Agriculture, and
70 further rtcummeud q thorough
;uaniml y 81 action on the part
i these nstltatious iii all things
has pertain to the agricultural.
iavalopem ent Of cur great state.
| And it is the further sense of this
4dy that tn re should he COM
pesent Demonstration agent in
every county of the State, who
shall act as County Commissioner
of Agriculture.
5. Resolved, that we desire to
60 on record as being III thorough
sympathy and hearty cooperation
with the Girls Tomato Clubs. and
Boy Clubs that are dong such
great work in our State.
6. Resolve, shat the action of
she Southern Cnmmercial Con-
gress requesting each state to send
swo representatives So Europe to
study the subject of Agricaltus-
al credit was wise and timely.
z. Resolved. that this Gonven-
tlon apporn5 committee 10 COZ
fer wish the State Department of
Agriculture and see whether the
Farmers Institutes can in any
way better meet the needs of the
people of the State In their various
localities.
8. Resolved, that this Con-
vention go on record in our legis-
lature to not divert the inspection
tax from uses to which 1t is now
applied; but that the same be
left in the hands of the Board of
Agricultural to be applied by
them TO the uses and needs of the
farmers of the state along agricul-
tural, horticultural and stock
raising lines.
8. Resolved, the same commit
tee appointed to confer with the
board of Agriculture in reference
to Institute work confer further
with thas board in reference to
eradicating hog oholern.
10. Resolved, that the farmers
and their wives and their children
endorse the movement to erect
suitable memorial to DR.. 8. A.
Knapp who did 80 much for the
farmers of the South.
II. Whereas, Good Roads are
necessary for the Development of
any country and,
Whereas, there is a great awak-
ening in the improvement of our
highways throughout the state.
Therefore, be it resolved that it
is the senss of the Farmsrs' Con-
vention of North Carolina that
the Convicts If the state should
all be put to work upon our roads
instead of working in competition
with free labor.
12. Resolved. that We request
the General Assembly to author
izs the Department. of Agriculture
to send two representatives to Eu.
rope to study the question of Agri.
cultural credit.
13. Resolved, that we re-affirm
our interest in an endorsement of
the Torrens system Of land regis
tration and that we hereby recon.
mend the passage of such an act
at the next session of our state
legislature.
REsoLUT1 oNs CONCERNING oLEoMAR-
GERTNE.
Whereas, the tax on colored oil.