The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-09-12
COMMITTEE To
HOLD MEETINGS
ON FARM PLANS
SESSIONS OF INSTITUTE SEIZED.
ULED FOR FOUR MIDDLE Dl.
VISION TOWNS.
FORMULATING POLICY FARMERS
VitaIization of the Organization AS
An Agency for the Advancement o,
Agricultural interests of This Sec.
ton of the State,

Vitalization of the Middle Tennes
see Farmers Institute as an institu
ton for the promotion of a definite
policy of advancement among the
farmers of Tennessee was considered
here Saturday by the committee on
permanent organization appointed at
the recent session of the institute,
| The committee did not complete its
work but discussed the principles that
will be further developed at a series
Of meetings to be held at Cookeville
on December 10, at Tullahoma on
March l, at Dickson on May 1 and at
Columbia on June /. AT each of these
meeting representative farmers of the
various regions visited will be called
! into conference for the purpose of
gaining their ideas about the policy of
the institute and to be enthused with
a purpose to increase the attendance
from their sections. At the Columbia
meeting next June the policy and plan
of the organization will be definitely
! adopted for recommendation to the
| institute which will meet at Colum,
| bia on the second Tuesday in August
that date having been fixed by the
committee Saturday.
Members of the committee and 9th
ers in conference here Saturday were:
Dr. H. A. Morgan, president of the
University of Tennessee; Col Har-
| ry Berry, vice president of the insti-
tute; Col. Edgar j. Graham, president
of the institute; G. G. Burkett, secre-
tary of the institute; Homer Hancock
chairman of the committee; w. p
Ridley and Mrs J. G.. Mason, members
of the committee; ]. M. Dean, district
agricultural agent, and Mrs. Kate M
Wells, district home demonstration
agent.
AS an example for their organization
the farmers of Middle Tennessee have
the East Tennessee Institute which
has been in existence as a permanent
body with paid membership for more
than decade and has been, instru-
mental in broadening the influence of
the division of extension and advanc-
ing the interests of the farmers of
that section of the state. This organ
ization also will have in view the or
ganization of county councils of farm
ers in every county in this division,
so that they may increase their pow
err for good more than it can be made
effective through individuals or dis
connected units. These county coun-
ellis will have representation in the
division institute.
DR.. Morgan outlined in preamble
form the reasons for this organza-
ton, as follows:
First-The boil weevil's attack on
the cotton crop of the South caused
Investigation and created new agri-
cultural status.
Second-Elimination of the cattle
tick in all states adjoining Tennessee
made new market available for all
live stock produced in this state.
Third-Material changes in the Ia
Dor situation have come about, which
must be overcome and vital changes
in farming plans made by an increase
in permanent pastures and decrease
in the acreage of titled land.
Fourth-Immigration that has been
going westward for the past 80 years
has now turned southwark and will
come first to Tennessee, because con
ditions here are more agreeable to-
the western and northern farmer
than can be found elsewhere in the
south.
To meet these four conditions
which have necesstated the perma-
nent organization of the farmers of
the middle division of the state the
committee agreed that there must be
a continuous and coherent policy di-
rected toward the economic and social
life of this division of the state.
The committee also agreed tenta-
lively that the form of the organiza-
ton should define the membership,
designate the residence and term of
Office of officers so as to best serve
the welfare of the Institute. 1t was
agreed that the organization should
strive to bring about the specialization
of the farming industry in Tennessee
through cooperative creameries, CO.
operative selling of live stock, collec-
tive sales of farm products and other
agencies pertaining to the business
and social life of the farm.
1t was stated as basic principle
that the entire processof the institute
should be worked out on foundation
OF close cooperation with the various
agencies of the division of extension,
the state agricultural college and the