Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-02-24
WANT CLOSER
COOPERATION
Principal Objects To Be Discussed In
21st Annual Convention Southern
Agricultural Workers.
Associated Press

: ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. 24-Exten-
sion of Agricultural development and
means for bringing about closer CO.
operation among the farmers of the
South are the principal objects to be
discussed in addresses in the 21st an
nual convention of the Association of
Southern Agricultural Workers which
began here today. The convention
will last three days.
The program for today provided for
addresses of welcome to the delegates
by DR.. TAFT Butler, of Memphis,
Tenn, President of the Association;
j. j. Brown, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture Of Georgia; and Mayor Chandler,
of Atlanta. This was followed on the
program by an address by DIR. Brad
ford Knapp, Dean of the Agricultural
College and Director of the Expert
ment Station of Fayetteville, Ark,
outlining a policy to be followed for
me extnesion of agricultural work in.
developing larger farms through local
and state organization of the farmers.
At tomorrow mornings session, DR..
H. A. Morgan, President of the Uni
versity of Tennessee, will speak on an
agricultural policy for the guidance
of producers in the Southern states.
Reports on the coordination of investi-
gational work conducted by the var
ious experimental stations will be pre-
sentad by the Agronomy Committee,
headed by C. A. Mooers, of Knoxville,
Tenn. ~
The afternoon and evening session
of tomorrow and Thursday will. be TAX
en- up with sectional meetings includs
ing the following: Field Corps and
Fertilizer section, Animal Husbandry
and Livestock section. Extension Sec
ton, Horticultural Section and the
fsychopathological Section. In these
meetings detailed reports will be S5re-
sented on a wide variety of subjects.
Some of them are:
Reports of T.. o. Watson, cotton ex-
pert, United States Department of
Agriculture, on cooperating cotton
breeding for wilt resistance; Profes-
sor George Roberts, University of
Kentucky, on coordination of soil fer
tility work; DIR. H. B. Brown, Missis-
sippi Agricultural College, increasing
of corn production by selection and
hybridization; R. Y. Winters, North
Carolina Experimental Station, coor-
dinating farm crops work.
Livestock questions coming under
the Animal Husbandry and livestock
section, to be presented, will take ir
the feeding of beef cattle in the
South, rations for wintering steers
discontinuance of movement of tick
infested cattle, and the results OBJ
tanned through investigational worl
by the Livestock committee.
E. R. Miller, field agent of tn
Department of Agriculture, will ad
dress the delegates of the Extension
Section tomorrow, according to tn
program, and will urge adoption of
program to create more intense inter
est among the farmers in agriculture
betterments. What the extension
workers of the South may do to solv
marketing problems, authority TO
which is limited by the Smith-Leve
Act, will be discussed by j. A. Ev
ans, chief of the Office of extensio
work in the South United States Dc
partment of Agriculture.
Horticulturists and pathologists RI
presenting their respective sections
will discuss at union melting Thur:
day, matters relating to the agree
ment reached at a meeting in Blrn
ingham, on methods of cooperation.
DIR. w. M. Riggs, President OF Cl'
mson Colleges South Carolina, WI
bring the convention to close Thur'
day morning with an address on FL
ropean work with the American arm
Officers of the Association aslt
from President Butler are: I.
Cooper, Lexington, Kentucky, VII
president; Dan T. Gray, Raleigh,
c., secretary; and Miss M. S. Bir'
song, Raleigh, assistant secretary.
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