The Cordele dispatch., 1920-02-24
FARMERS WORK
CLOSER INTEREST
EXTENSION OF FARM DEVELOP.
MENT ATLANTA MEETING.

agricultural development and means
FIR bringing about closer cooperation
among the farmers of the South are
the principal objects to be discussed
in addresses in the 21st annual con
vention of the Association of nth.
ern Agricultural Workers WI i be.
gan here today. The convention will
last three days.
The program for today provided for
addresses of welcome to the delegat-
es by DR.. TAFT Butler of Memphis,
Tenn, President of the Association;
J. j. Brown, Commissioner of Agri.
culture of Georgia; and Mayor Cand-
/ Ter, of Atlanta. This was followed on
| the program by an address by Dr.
Brad Knapp, Dean of the Agricultur
al College and Director of the Expert
ment Station of Fayetteville, Ark,
outlining a policy to be followed for
the extension of agricultural work in
developing. larger farms through
local and state organization of the
farmers.
At tomorrow mornings session, Dr.
II. A. Morgan, President OF the Uni
versity of Tennessee, will speak on
an agricultural policy for the guild
ance pf producers in the Southern
states. Reports on the coordination
of in vestigational work conducted
by the various experimental by C. A.
Mooers, of Knoxville, Tenn.
The afternoon and evening session
of tomorrow and Thursday will be
taken up with sectional meetings in
cluding the following: Field Crops
and Fertilizer Section Animal Hus.
bandry and Livestock section, Ex-
tension Setion, Horticultural Section
and the Psychopathologica Section.
In these meetings detailed reports
will be presented on a wide variety
of subjces. Some Of them are:
Reports of L, O. Watson, cotton
expert. United States Department of
Agriculture, on cooperating cotton
breeding for wilt resistance; Profess
sor George Roberts. University of
Kentucky, on coordination of soil fer
tility work; DR.. H. B. Brown, Missis-
JAippi Agricultural College, increasing
of corn production by selection and
Adjudication; r. Y. Winters, North
Carolina Experimental Station, CO.
ordinating farm crops work
Livestock questions coming under
the Animal Husbandrys and livestock
section, to be present, will take in
the feeding of beef cattle in South
rations for wintering steers; discon.
tinuance Of movement Of tick infested
cattle, and the results obtained
| through investigational work bv the
Livestock committee.
E. R. Miller, field agent of the De-
partment OF Agriculture. will address
the delegates OF the Extension Sec.
tion tomorrow, according to the pro.
gram and will urge adoption of pro-
gram to create more intense interest
among the farmers in agricultural
betterments. What the extension
workers of the South may do to solve
marketing problems, authority for
which is limited by the Smith Lever
Act, will be discussed by j. A. Evans
chief of the office of extension work
IN the South. Unitel States Depart.
ment of Agriculture.
Horticulturists and pathoIogists re-
presenting their respective sections
VIII discuss at a union meeting
thursday matters relating to the
agfeemen reached at meeting in
Birmingham, on methods of coopera.
tion.
DR. w. NJ. Riggs, President of
Clemson College. .-6outh Carolina
will bring the convention to a close
Thursday morning with an address
on European work with the American
army. -
OFFICERS cf Association oe;do fror,