REPORT OF THE DELEGATES TO THE FARMERS' 

 NATIONAL CONGRESS,* 



At Fort Worth, Texas, 1898. 



To His Excellency Roger Wolcott. 



Sir: — The delegates from the State of Massachusetts to 

 the Farmers' National Congress, which held its eighteenth 

 annual session at Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 6-14, 1898, ac- 

 knowledge the courtesy of your appointment, and submit 

 the following report. 



The Congress assembled in the city hall at Fort Worth, 

 which had been assigned for its meetings, and was called to 

 order at 10 o'clock a.m. on Dec. 6, 1898, by Hon. William 

 D. Hoard of Wisconsin, its president. 



Delegates numbering some three hundred and fifty were 

 present, from Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, 

 Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachu- 

 setts, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, 

 North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma Territory, Pennsylvania, 

 Tennessee, Texas, Mexico and Venezuela. 



Prayer was offered by Rt. Rev. Alex. C. Garrett of Dal- 

 las, bishop of Texas, after which the Congress was welcomed 

 by Hon. John F. Henderson, the mayor of Fort Worth, by 

 Hon. James E. Mitchell, president of the Fort Worth Pro- 

 tective League, by Hon. W. E. Skinner, president of the 

 Fort Worth Stock Exchange, and by His Excellency Charles 

 A. Culberson, governor of Texas. These addresses were 

 appropriately responded to by the officers of the Congress, 

 after which President Hoard delivered his annual address. 

 A condensed report of the same is as follows : — 



* This report has been transmitted to the secretary of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture by His Excellency the Governor, and, according to custom, is included in 

 the '* Agriculture of Massachusetts." 



