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Show ANXlIAIj SESSION Or liie rirnirrt1 Allltncr.-lhlrl; Male And Trrrltorlt llepretented. CLASS LCatSLATION THC CAUSC OT AomcULTunAk Dcpncmiori. Tno (irrat (Jur.lloni Hie Solution of lUlch Would Am. Ilortl Ilia Condition. nr Tfl.ntrhle la Ne. vilr. rAiKfKiia'toNiiHi.aa. A l.ere A.terolilaae ! tl.leaale aed tl.ll.r-. HciiAMA, Mo., Not, 10. Tho eleventh annual aeeilon ot Hie Farm-rra'congrt-xla-gau a three itayi'aet-Ion itayi'aet-Ion bore Ihla morning with 27 delegate dele-gate and a large number of vlaltnra tn attendance. Thirty rilalre and Terrl-torleiare Terrl-torleiare reprreented. Wood' Uera Houae, where the congrea 1 being held, I tlahorately decorated Willi farm product. Welcome addrretee were delivered by Governor I'rencla, Mayor Carroll of Helalln, and Frank II. Meyer, president ot the Hcdalla Commercial club, which were reeimnd t-dtobyllon. A. W. Hmlth, of Kan-aaa; Kan-aaa; Colnnel Daniel Nee-iliuiof New i:nland, and II. K. Clarion, of Iowa, ecretaryof the Karrnera1 congreee." InllioAb-enroof 1'realdent Kalb,of Alabama, who wa unavoidably ab-eut. ab-eut. VIce.rreeldeutHmllli of Kanai, prefide.1. (lovrrrior Krancla. nf Mia-pourl, Mia-pourl, tn Ida nddreaa of welcome on belialfof the Htate, aald cits legl. latlou had been one of the potent cau.ee of the depreaalon of ngrtcul-ural ngrtcul-ural lut.te.lt. Tula deprat'lou had been of lout continuance, and It wa time now that the farmer waa given recognition In tho council of the nation. na-tion. Tlyre were two great uui-jdlon proper, the solution of which would tend to Ameliorate the farmer' condl tlon. Une waa the Improvement of thu great water-outirae, which would furnlali chiaptran.jnrtatlou for farm product. The Mlsniurl river could tw improved ata co.tnf$jo,iKl,inxi, oiuni email comarrl with the r.xe-ndllurre of the Hlllon dollar 1'ongrea. Trieollicr quesllan wa the Improvement of ciun. try road, wblcti would lurnltu good transportation for unall farmer to thu n.areittnarketa. Vice I'rt-ildont 8mllli reiioiideJ, lie agreeing with the governor that I be treat WAter-cmirseeihoulil tm Im proved otli tn the Interest ol the farmer, mau-ulirturer mau-ulirturer and merchant. Twenty million dollar wa a mall enough Amount to lie devoted to ll.o I in. provement of a big river llku thu Mlsiourl. He wai not alarmed, he said, at any billion dollar Congreee. Ho thanked (ijd lie lived in a country where the eppruprlatlouof a billion dollar by .one congrrti would not bankrupt the treasury. The Agricultural IntcreitwA the greatest Interest of the nation and Ivglilallon ihould take it more Into account thAii It dots. A number of other Addressee w ere mAde, Hkuaua, Not. 10. llefore recett resolutions were Adopted ou motion of I). C. WAgnsr, of Illinois, tendering to rtirretary of Agriculture Itu.k alncore thanka"for the great and good work lieha accomplished for Hie farmer and te beg hi continuance In the same line." The preaml le refer to lluak at "Our farmer aecretiry of agriculture;" apeak of hi work In regard re-gard tool-suing forclgu marksla, eradl-i-utlng ofconugloua dlieaiea among cAttlv, etc. |