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instead of the wasteful one-horse method which requires two to three times as 

 much expensive man-labor without increased returns. Better seed selection 

 is another vitally important matter, and every North Carolina farmer who 

 does not buy from reliable and progressive seed-breeders should select seed 

 for next year's corn, cotton and peanut crops from the very best individual 

 plants in his field during the next sixty days. The growing of legumes must 

 be preached until the acreage is doubled again and again. Better cutting and 

 management of our timber is necessary to preserve this great resource and also 

 to save the land itself. We must have more live stock — more hogs, cattle and 

 horses especially — and every farmer should have one or more improved breed- 

 ing animals on his place ; as helping here, the extermination of the cattle tick 

 is a work which we should all encourage, and dairying also offers splendid 

 opportunities for great development. Second in importance to nothing else is 

 the improvement of our homes, and the farmer's wife must get improved 

 household conveniences and comforts, water supply, etc., as rapidly as the 

 farmer himself gets improved farm equipment. 



4. We rejoice in the rapid improvement of our public schools, so that it is 

 no longer necessary for our farmers to move to town in order to educate their 

 children. We hail' with special delight the coming of Farm-life High Schools, 

 and we urge that the law requiring the teaching of agriculture in our schools 

 be strictly enforced, and that arrangements for instruction in domestic science 

 be brought about as rapidly as possible. 



5. Never before has our State been so thoroughly aroused to the importance 

 of better roads. Whether or not expensive macadam roads can be built, we 

 urge our people not to neglect their opportunities for getting the less expen- 

 sive sand-clay or gravel road, and we especially urge the wider use of the 

 road drag. 



6. The agitation for better rural sanitation and health conditions should have 

 the heartiest support of all our farmers. The saving of health and human 

 life is certainly not less important than saving money. 



7. For the purpose of enabling our farmers to realize easily upon their 

 capital as other property-holders do, we note with pleasure the growing inter- 

 est in the Torrens System of registering land titles, and we join the Farmers' 

 Union in urging its importance upon our Legislature. 



8. We also join other farmers' organizations in protesting against indis- 

 criminate immigration from Southern Europe. We welcome most heartily 

 men of our own stock, especially wide-awake Western and Northern farmers, 

 men who speak our language and know our institutions, many of whom have 

 made themselves leaders in Southern development ; but we do not believe in 

 wholesale immigration of Italians, Poles, Russians, etc. 



9. In conclusion, we wish to thank especially the president and faculty of 

 the Agricultural and Mechanical College, the officers of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion and the Department of Agriculture, the people of Raleigh, the Catawba 

 County Live-stock Association, and the railroads of the State for courtesies 

 extended in connection with this meeting, and Dr. Knapp, Mr. White, President 

 French and Secretary Parker for their invaluable services. 



By the Committee: 



Clarence H. Poe, Chairman; 

 John W. Robinson, 

 B. B. Evebette. 



