To develop the important farm industries of Buncombe County, localize crops according to soil and transportation conditions, and provide better markets, representative farmers of the County meeting yesterday morning with C.C. Proffitt, District Farm Agent, C.E. Miller, County Agent, and James G.K. McClure, president of the Farmers’ Federation appointed a committee of nine which will further plans outlined in the meeting.
Committee of three were recently appointed to represent the seven rural districts of the county ad the districts surrounding Asheville. The districts, or group centers, are Barnardsville, Weaverville, Leicester, Swannanoa, Avery’s Creek, Candler and Fairview.
These committees, with other farmers from the various sections, were in the meeting and from their number the committee of nine was appointed as follows: Wallace B. Davis, Banking; Cecil McElroy, Hogs and Sheep; Thomas Maney, Beef Industries; George Wallace, Dairying; Alf Daniels, Trucking; Ralph E. Lee, Poultry; C.c. Brown, County Board; and Walter Toms Wray, Chamber of Commerce.
The committee will meet with the Farmers’ Federation and Agents Proffitt and Miller the first of November, when definite plans will be completed and committees appointed to serve permanently in each branch of agricultural industry. Holding of this meeting before the first of November is made impossible because of the activities in which the members must be engaged during the next few weeks in arranging for the community fairs.
The committees finally appointed will under the present plan formulate policies of planting, harvesting and marketing in semi-annual meetings, with special meetings should the need arise. They will e subsidiary organizations, with the Farmers’ Federation the parent body.
County Agent Miller submitted an outline of the proposed scope of the work and this was adopted tentatively. His plan calls for the adoption of standard breeds of livestock, proven best for Buncombe by experiment and standardization of seeds.
Should the full extent of the plans be realized, eventually soil tests will be made and crops localized. That is, where soil test shows one particular section suited to growing of fruit above any other crop and another to growing of truck produce, these crops would be planted as the major ones of each particular section. Location would also govern the kind of crop to a certain extent.
Fruit, truck and poultry have already been proven profitable crops for this County and Western North Carolina, while the dairy industry in Buncombe County is on the verge of being revolutionized, in the opinion of Mr. Miller.
Fitting climax to the meeting was provided when County Commissioner C.C. Brown told the assembly the petition recently drawn and intended for circulation, asking the abolishment of the County Farm and Home Agent Departments, has been pigeon-holed by him and that no further action by that was termed the “disgruntled element” of the County would be forthcoming for the present.
From the front page of the Asheville Citizen, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1922
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