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was held to be within the province of the Congress to assist 

 in securing such representation. The intention of this or 

 ganization was to unite every Agricultural Society through 

 out the land, but especially those of the Southern and West 

 ern States, into one body, in which there should be a delega 

 tion from each of these societies, the basis of representation 

 being one delegate to each fifty members or fraction thereof, 

 and to include representatives from any society, whether 

 State, County, District, or Township Association. 



THE TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION. 



Another organization, the Tennessee Agricultural and 

 Mechanics Association, was also in existence at this time, 

 embracing among its members gentlemen from all sections 

 of the country, but principally from the Southern States. 

 Its President was F. J. LeMoyne, of Pennsylvania; Secre 

 tary, J. B. Killebrew, of Tennessee; Treasurer, F. H. 

 French, of the same State. 



In October, 1871, at the instance of this association, there 

 was held at Nashville, Tennessee, an Agricultural Congress, 

 consisting of delegates from eleven States, and representing 

 more than forty different Agricultural Societies and associa 

 tions. The same body, by agreement with this Congress, 

 appointed a session to be held at St. Louis for the pur 

 pose of consolidating, and making the organization truly 

 national. 



At the Nashville meeting, a committee was appointed to 

 prepare and publish an address to the people, setting forth 

 the aims of the Congress, and calling for a general partici 

 pation therein by agriculturists of all the States and Terri 

 tories, who were invited to send in delegates from their va 

 rious associations, 



