RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE 



FARMERS' CONVENTION. 



The North Carolina State Farmers' Convention, in annual session assembled. 

 August 27-29, 1912, through its committee, offers the following resolutions : 



1. We recommend that the next session of the Legislature pass an act 

 authorizing a State-wide dog tax, the proceeds of which to be appropriated to 

 the school fund. 



2. Resolved. That we favor a State-wide stock law for North Carolina. 



3. That we favor the discussion of scientific marketing along with scientific 

 production, at the institutes. 



4. Resolved, That we desire to express our appreciation of the cooperation 

 between the State Department of Agriculture, the A. and M. College, and the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture; and we further recommend a thorough 

 unanimity of action on the part of these institutions in all things that pertain 

 to the agricultural development of our great State. And it is the further 

 sense of this body that there should be a competent demonstration agent in 

 every county of the State, who shall act as County Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture. 



5. Resolved, That we desire to go on record as being in thorough sympathy 

 and hearty cooperation with the Girls' Tomato Clubs and Boys' Corn Clubs 

 that are doing such great work in our State. 



(!. Resolved, That the action of the Southern Commercial Congress, request- 

 ing each State to send two representatives to Europe to study the subject of 

 agricultural credit was wise and timely. 



7. Resolved, That this Convention appoint a committee to confer with the 

 State Department of Agriculture and see whether the Farmers' Institutes can 

 in any way better meet the needs of the people of the State in their various 

 localities. 



8. Resolved, That this Convention go on record in asking our Legislature to 

 not divert the inspection tax from uses to which it is now applied ; but that 

 the same be left in the hands of the Board of Agriculture to be applied by 

 them to the uses and needs of the farmers of the State along agricultural, 

 horticultural, and stock-raising lines. 



9. Resolved, The same committee appointed to confer with the Board of 

 Agriculture in reference to Institute work confer further with that board in 

 reference to eradicating hog cholera. 



10. Resolved, That the farmers and their wives and their children indorse 

 the movement to erect a suitable memorial to Dr. S. A. Knapp, who did so 

 much for the farmers of the South. 



11. Whereas good roads are necessary for the development of any country ; 

 and whereas there is a great awaliening in the improvement of our highways 

 throughout the State: therefore, be it 



Resolved. That it is the sense of the Farmers' Convention of North Caro- 

 lina that the convicts of the State should all be put to work upon our roads, 

 instead of working in competition with free labor. 



12. Resolved, That we request the General Assembly to authorize the De- 

 partment of Agriculture to send two representatives to Europe to study the 

 question of agricultural credit. 



13. Resolved. That we reaffirm our interest in and indorsement of the Tor- 

 rens system of land registration, and that w^e hereby recommend the passage 

 of such an act at the next session of our State Legislature. 



