Farmers, Farm Women to Attend 3-Day State Meeting at State College July 30, 1923

Announce Details of Farm Meeting. . . State Farmers and Farm Women Will Gather at State College. . . July 31 for 3-Day Meeting. . . Program Consists of Discussions by Able Speakers on farm Financing and Business Problems.

Raleigh—Farmers and farm women of North Carolina will assemble at the State College of Agriculture and Engineering July 31 for a three-day meeting of the 21st annual convention of the Farmers and Farm Women.

Addresses by Dr. J.Y. Joyner, president of the Farmers, and Mrs. Lacy MacArthur of Cumberland county, president of the Farm Women, will feature the opening session. Aaron Sapire cooperative marketing expert, is expected to be present for the meeting and efforts are being made to have a large attendance of cooperative marketing association members.

On the general program will be discussions by able speaker on farm financing, business problems, commodity marketing, home products marketing, building for citizenship, diversified farming, boll weevil control. The afternoon meeting will be devoted to sectional meetings and demonstrations, while the evening program will be interspersed with music, plays and social entertainments.

“No effort is being spared,” continued Dr. Joyner, “to make this convention the most instructive, the most entertaining, the most largely attended, and the most representative conference on agriculture ever held in North Carolina. Every farmer and his wife are cordially invited to attend. A special invitation is extended to all members of the Tobacco and Cotton Growers’ Associations. The associations are earnestly requested to advertise this convention through their local and field workers, and aid in securing a large attendance.”

What farm women in North Carolina are accomplishing will be the feature of the farm women’s section of the convention.

From page 3 of The Progress, Enfield, N.C., July 6, 1923