Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-23
Officers Elected and Install
ed at Wednesdays Ses-
Sion-SeveraI Resolutions
Unanimously Adopted

| The general sessions of the twenty
third annual convention of the Asso-
citation of Southern Agricultural
Workers, which has been in session
at the Piedmont hotel, came to a
close Wednesday noon, following a
business meeting, at which officers
were elected and resolutions passed
definitely fixing the attitude of the
I association with regard to southern
agricultural problems.
The nominating committee, COM
posed of Prof. J. H. Keiffer, of Ten
nessee, chairman; Prof. A. r. Kidder,
of Louisiana; Dean E. J. Kyle, of
Texas; Prof. George Roberts, of Ken
lucky, and r. Y. Winters, of North
Carolina, nominated the following
as officers of the association in 1922:
c. A. Mooers, of Knoxville, Tenn,
president; D. G. Hull, of Mississippi,
first vice president; T. o. Walton, of
College Station, Tex, second vice
president, and J. N. Harper, of At
| lanta, to succeed himself as secre-
tary and treasurer. The report was
unanimously adopted and the officers
| installed
Resolutions Adopted
| The committee on resolutions, COM
| posed of J. F. Duggar, J. M. Scott
c.. 3. Williams, H. w. Barre and W.
G. Lasseter, offered the following
resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
81. The soil is the most important
national resource of any nation, yet
a view from any car window in the
south shows a wanton waste of soil
fertility through erosion and the
| failure to grow adequate winter COW
er and soil improving crops. We
urge that farmers organizations
everywhere throughout the south
undertake a continuing crusade to
enlist all farmers in active work for
soil improvement along these lines.
"2. That southern farmers are
urged to adopt more generally on
each farm a policy of economic
| production of food for the family
and feed for the live stock in addi-
ton to their main cash crops.
90. The association recommends
that southern farmers persist, in
spite of present low prices, in their
efforts to build up and maintain in
the south a safe and stable live
stock industry.
81. In this time of agricultural
depression we should not lose sight
eff the necessity of adequately sus-
tanning all agencies for the improve
ment of agriculture and promoting
rural life. The worst period of de-
preston will doubtless soon come
to an end, but when there will still
/ be need, as there is now, for a per-
manent policy for agricultural adj
Vancement.
This involves liberal support Of
| extension, instruction and research
in agriculture. Of these three agri-
cultural activities the one now suf-
| fering most intensely from lack of
! adequate support is research. Yet
research is the foundation on which
| is based any durable edifice of ag-
ricultural instruction in educational
| institutions, as well as extension
work among farmers and farm
women. Moreover, agricultural re-
| search requires considerable time for
| full fruition, and hence immediate
provision should be made by state
and national legislation for more
adequate financial support Of agri-
! cultural experiment stations. Eco
nomic production is still fundamen-
| tai to the prosperity of southern
farmers. Moreover, the field Of in
Vestigation of the experiment sta
| lions needs to be Widened to include
| farm management, marketing, and
home economics. This enlargement
is provided for in the Purnell bill
now pending in congress. This as
ISOLATION hereby indorses the Pur-
nell bill and advises southern farm
| ers to urge upon their respective
congressman the passage of this bill.
5. THE association urges that
| farm organizations and individual
| farmers of the southern states give
prompt and serious consideration to
the formulation of permanent for
estry policy, which policy shall be
framed so as to provide against
| needless waste and to assure a con-
tinuOus supply of timber.
6. "This association expresses it's
| disapproval of the proposed transfer
of the forest service and the bureau
of markets from the United States
! department of agriculture.
Z. ut is suggested that each of
our southern agricultural colleges
make an analytical examination of
its courses of study to determine
whether any Improvement can be
| made for rendering them still more
extensively useful to the local !