The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-19
Have Eleventh Annual Conven-
ton for Three Days
HOUSEWIVES SAME TIME
Women viii Hold Their Con-
yention In the High School
Auditorium Many Ad-
dresses.

%orth Carolina farmers will meet
hire August IS in the eleventh an
al convention, and the housewives
b,ld sessions the same day up town.
The men Will have their meetings
pullen Hall at the A. and Nj. col
lele buildings. WAL make their hotels
- that place. and dine daily without
GaNlng TO come up town. Meals may
rt h&d for % cents, and the visit here
VII he as expenseless as possible.
The housewives will hold their
iueetings in The high school auditor
um. Mrs. Julian Heath, Of New
lork founder of the Housewives
league of America, will make on Of
3hc addresses. The tomato club girls
WI talk to the body, somebody will
tel how to make bread, without
which food. no farmer who visits his
place can be happy. The woman's
work is as important a. the mans at
this convention, ano will be so
ueated:
The officers this year are:
e. w. Spruill. Auitsna. president.
t.. H.. Moore. Charlotte. vice-preSi-
dent.
J.. III. Currie, Fayetteville. second
,ice-president.
/. o. Schaub, West Raleigh, sec
Ietary-treasurer.
The railroads have fixed it so the
travel will be as cheap as possible.
plus IS cents will he charged. Tha,
y materially a reduction.
Accommodations.
The college will furnish rooms in
the dormitories free.
Persons expecting to stay in the col
.lcGe rooms should bring their owr
towels. sheets n pillows. Meals
viii be furnished in the college mess
hail at twenty-five cents each.
II is believed that one Of the bes
programs ever offered to the conven.
lion is given below. both for the meI
and women 1t is urged that all wht
receive Il copy come to the meetin:
Int bring their neighbors. Let Vi
nave the largest convention of farm
tfS IN the history of the State ant
l~uutually help one another.
PROGRAM.
Tuesday. August c6.-Soil Day.
1880 A. Observation-Disclosures
j.. H.. Hill and Commissioner w.
Graham.
SoIi Work in the Stately Direc
tor Il. w. kilgore, Raleigh, n. G.
10 Soils Wear Out"-Prof. c. L
Newman, a. and NJ. college.
How | am Saving Labor by Tillae
iInplements-W. D.. Boseman, Rock
Mount, y. &.
Results of Late Applications G
Commercial Fertilizers-By G. I
Williams, North Carolina Experimer
station.
Dinner.
: L. M.-Address-C. w. Spruil
president of the convention.
80 l.. ADMINISTRATION of Cor
structing the Mangum Terrace
J.. II. Mangum, Wake Forest, n. G.
l.. M.-Demonstration in Layin
Cut. Digging and Placing of Farl
Tle-H. Nj. Lynde. u. S. Departmer
Fl Agriculture. and Prof. NJ. E. She1
win. A. and M. college.
100 i. M.-Essential Principles
'"operation-Dean H.. G.. Price, Stat
University. Columbus, Ohio.
Marketing Cotton-By c. j.. Bran
1. :. Department of Agriculture.
Cooperation in Marketing Fru
'rops-By J. r. Fooshe, ProgressiN
Farmer. Raleigh. N. c.
Cooperation in Live Stock and
DAIRY Productivity A. O. Neiso
sVea. Mimi.
Wednesday, August 27.-Live Stot
Day.
= A. M.-Trip over college al
station farms.
LAS A. N.-Judging Farm Mules.
by Prof. j. G. McNutt, A. and !.
college.
Sis A M.@udging Draft Hors
BY Schuyler Salisbury, A. n J
college.
s:<5 A. M.-Judging Hogs
Dan +. Gray. N. c. Experiment st
ton.
$40 A.. M.-Silage for Beef Ca
ue-By w. +. Ward, u. s DEPARTING
Of Agriculture.
1913 A. of
profitable Dairy Herd-By Alvin
Reed, Z. s. Department OF Agrfc'
ture.
IL A. M.-Southern Markets 1
Eeef Cattle and Sheep-By r.
Curtis. N. G. Experiment Station.
ll:45 A. INSTRUMENTATION
Methods Of Injecting Hog Cholera