422 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Wednesday, October 16, was the last day of the Congress. 

 Many resolutions sent to the committee on resolutions were 

 not reported to the full body, as they, were not deemed of 

 sufficient importance to take up the time of the closing 

 hours of the session. All the important matters were con- 

 sidered, discussed as time would permit and then disposed 

 of. More papers were read, and among them one on nitre 

 as a fertilizer ; congratulatory resolutions were passed, and 

 at last the business for which the Farmers' National Con- 

 gress had been convened was at an end ; a motion to ad- 

 journ sine die was made and carried ; the president's gavel 

 came down, and he announced that the Congressional ses- 

 sion for 1895 had ended. 



Members grasped each other's hands, bade adieu to their 

 co-laborers, and many started for home immediately. 



The delegates from Massachusetts were accorded honor- 

 able consideration by the Congress : Mr. Avery was made 

 a vice-president, Mr. Kilbourn a member of the committee 

 on resolutions, Mr. Candage Mas made chairman of a com- 

 mittee to confer with the committee of the National Grange, 

 Patrons of Husbandry and others, at Worcester, .Mass., 

 Nov. 14, 1895, and Mr. Brooks was accorded honorable 

 consideration on the floor. 



After the close of the Farmers' National Congress the 

 members that remained in the city had opportunity to visit 

 the International Exposition and to attend the Good Roads 

 Parliament, where they were welcome and made members 

 of that body. 



It may not be out of place in this report to give a short 

 account of the city of Atlanta and its wonderful growth and 

 thrift. 



Atlanta is the capital of Georgia, is situated upon the 

 ridge which divides the Atlantic from the Gulf coasts, some 

 eleven hundred feet above the sea level. It is one hundred 

 and seventy-one miles from the city of Augusta and three 

 hundred from Savannah. Its climate is dry and mild, with 

 a mean annual temperature of 64° F. The summer heat is 

 dry and not excessive, and sunstroke is never known there. 

 In 1860 Atlanta was a town of some six thousand people, 



