Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-06-20
MIDDLE TENNESSEE
FARMERS TO MEET
CONVENE FOR ANNUAL coNvEN.
TIoN.AT AUDITORIUM OF
COLUMBIA ACADEMY.
SESSIONS BEGIN JULY 20

Nashville, Tenn-Farmers OF Middle
Tennessee will convene for their an
nual convention at the auditorium OF
the Columbia Military Academy, ad.
Joining the Middle Tennessee Expert.
ment Station at Columbia, on Tues
day, July %, for session of three
days The call for the meeting on the
dates named has been made by Col.
II. Knox Bryson, commissioner OF ag.
riculture of Tennessee, who in oonnec-
tion with Prof Charles A. Keffer, Of
the University of Tennessee, director
of the division of extension, Is busy
preparing the program.
On the first day OF the convention
there will also be a meeting OF the
1eral food administrators of the Mid.
die Tennessee counties, all Of them
being urged to attend by DR.. H.,A.
Morgan, federal food administrator OF
Tennessee In addition to those from
Middle Tennessee any other food al
ministators of the state who desire to
attend are invited to do so. DR., J.
w. HGllowell, of the United States
Food Administration at Washington,
and the right-hand man of Hebert
Hoover United States food admins
traitor, has promised to attend.
On the second day of the convention
appropriate exercises will mark the
| former delivery by Maury county Of
the deed to the experiment station
property. Judge J. T. Mcknight, 81
the county court of Maury county, will
formally tender the deed, and 1t will
be accepted on behalf of the@state by
no less a distinguished parsonage
than the governor, Hon. Thomas c.
Rye. These exercises will be attend,
ed by the> following specially invited
guests, the board of trustees of the
University OF Tennessee, the members
of the educational and agricultural
committees of the state Legislature,
DR.. Brown Ayres, president Of the
University, Col. Fl. Knox Bryson com'
missioner Of agriculture, and the mem
bsrs of the Maury county court.
This will be the first time that the
farmers convention has ever bean
held at Columbia. but It will doubtless
be the permanent home, since It ID
the location of the Middle Tennessee
| Experiment Station. While the con
vention is in session the farmers will
be invited to make a trip Of 'inspec'
ton over the experiment station and
witness the work of development that
Is being carried on there under the
direction of DR.. II. A. Morgan, dean 81
| the college of agriculture.
Splendid results have been obtained
in'the .heep production campaign un
der the direction of Prof. Murphy. u
the University of Tennessee, and A
d. Knox, of the United States Food
Administration. Several counties have
reported movement that will resul,
In largely increased sheep holdings
| Rutherford county under the able di
rection OF J. Moore King the county
food administrator, reports an increase
Of over 1000 ewes,
Wheatless Ration.
Practically the entire state is no .
on a wheatless ration. Among the
counties that have Joined the process
sion during the past ten days art
Maury, Roane, Rutherford, Sullivan
and Overton and Putnam. Other coun
ties are practically without any flour
and will have none shipped into them
Dr..H. A. Morgan, federal food ad
ministrator for Tennessee, has issued
TN order that hereafter no hundret
per cent wheat flour, that is flour thai
would be acceptable to the govern
nent for export, will be allowed to BIZ
shipped into any county without thu
written permission Of the food admin
istrator of the county into which
Is proposed to ship it. This does no
apply to fifty-fifty flour, self-risini
flour or mixed or entire wheat flour