Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-11
FARM INTERESTS
To De AFEATURE
FOR CHAUTAUQUA

MACON, Ca, Feb. 10.-A conference
On the boil weevil. live stock industries
and marketing of farm products to be
held in Macon, March %, % and "a,
will be the most important of a series
of conferences that are to be held in
connection with the three weeks ses-
sion of The Chautauqua of the South,
which has been permanently located in
Macon, and which will open March IS
This particular conference will bring
together the leading agricultural work
ers, bankers and business men of the
south, and the speakers will be men of
national prominence, who will BRING
messages which are expected to bring
great weight in the readjustment of the
south's problems along these lines.
The call for the conference has been
made by DR.. A. NJ. Soule, president of
the Georgia State College of Agricul-
ture, and chairman of the agricultural
committee of the Chautauqua. 1t will
mark the close of boil weevil cam
paign in Georgia, in which more than
500 meetings have been held, attended
by more than 100000 representative
Georgia farmers and business men and
will give the farmers of Georgia and
other cotton growing states an oppor-
tunity to get the benefit of the expert
ence of those who are already suffer
ing from the ravages of the couth's
greatest enemy.
The first day of the conference will
be devoted to the boil weevil, when the
leaders will have an opportunity to
compare experiences and determine
upon constructive line of action
which will enable such readjustments
il the south's agricultural practices are
necessary in order to meet weevil
damages most successfully. Among
the notable leaders and widely ex-
perienced experts of this industry who
hav been invited to address this sec
tion of the conference are Hon Brad
ford Knapp, States Relation Service,
Washington. D c.; DR.. E. w. Hines,
State Entomologist of Alabama; Hon.
Fairfax Harrison, President of the
Southern Railway Company, and Prof
L. E. Rust, of the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture.
Realizing that one of the best ways
of fighting the boil weevil is through
the development of the live stock in
dustries, commensurate with the needs
of the south, the second days program
will be devoted to a consideration of
questions related to this topic. The
farmers of Tennessee and Kentucky es-
pecially, are interested in this subject
as well as that of marketing of farm
products and are expected to send
large delegations to the conference.
Among the leaders who have been in
vited to speak on the live stock ques-
tion, are Prof. H. A. Morgan, Director
of the Tennessee Experiment Station;
Hon. Carl Vreeman, Assistant Secre-
tary of Agriculture; Gov. Henry Stuart,
of Virginia; and Prof. NJ. P. Jarnigan
OF the Georgia State College of Agri-
culture.
The third day will be devoted to the
problems connected with the handling
and marketing of farm products in the
most expeditions and profitable man
ner. Among those invited to partici-
pate in the discussions on this day are
Hon. Clarence Poe, editor of the Pro-
gressive Farmer Raleigh, N. c.; T. J.
Brooks, Chief of the Market Division
Of the Mississippi A. & M. College;
Prof. NJ. c. Gay, Market Agent of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture;
and Gov. Manning, of South Carolina.
A special appeal is being made to the
railroad and commercial agents to CO.
operate in the working out of the
marketing plan.
Discussing the coming conference,
DR.. Soule declares, that the problems
OF the day and the hour are so complex
that their solution is possible only
through their discussion and elucida-
tion on such occasions as the Chau-
tauqua of the South affords and there
fore every progressive citizen who is
interested in the economic welfare of
the country should arrange to attend
taese meetings and participate in the
discussions.
When individuals cannot go, local
community clubs. farmers organiZa-
tions, chambers of commerce, boards
OF trade, boards of education, bankers
and business men of every class and