Agricultural depression
Subtitle: its causes -- the remedy : speech of L.L. Polk, President of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, before the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, April 22, 1890
Contributors: National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Agriculture; Economic aspects; Silver question; Agricultural prices; Farm income
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed July 9, 2002)

Caption: Senate Bill 2806 ("Sub-Treasury Bill.")

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Transcribed from: Agricultural depression : its causes -- the remedy : speech of L.L. Polk, President of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, before the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, April 22, 1890. Raleigh : Edwards & Broughton, printers and binders, 1890. 32 p. ; 18 cm.

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Leonidas LaFayette Polk was born in Anson County, North Carolina, on April 25, 1837. In 1870, he began a successful campaign for the establishment of a N.C. state department of agriculture and was appointed the first state Commissioner of Agriculture from 1877-80. He promoted the idea of estabishing a state agricultural and mechanical college, which eventually became North Carolina State University. In 1886, he founded The Progressive Farmer magazine and soon after became active in the Farmers' Alliance and the Populist party. He died on June 11, 1892.