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Prof. HUTCHINSON said that the spray for fruit trees and garden vegetables, the inoculation serum for the prevention of black leg in cattle, etc, were the outcome of investigations and experiments covering many years at the experiment stations of the States, and that Virginia was keeping well up with the procession in its work at V.P.I. The speaker said that county agents and farmers organizations were a necessity in this day of organization; that capital has organized, labor has organized and for self protection the farmers should do likewise. He said that the coal miners and other industrial employees were now demanding a five day week, and shorter hours, and that in many instances their demands were granted because of organization, and that when labor shortened its working hours and decreased its output, the farmer had to be lengthen his day to make up for the deficit. "Not organization for protection, but organization for selling the products of their labor was now an absolute necessity unless they expect to be compelled to take any price organized labor and capital care to give them."

The speaker said that R. R. WALL was one of the most industrious and faithful workers in the State, and that of course he made mistakes, and the man who didn't had no place in this world.

The vote as to whether the county agent should be retained was then taken, and an overwhelming majority expressed themselves in favor of the demonstrator.

Wall Given Vote of Thanks

C.R. BROWN made a motion that WALL be retained for another year, and that the farmers present him a vote of thanks for his faithful and efficient work in the county. Mr. BROWN recalled the fact that Wall resigned his position here during the war and went to camp notwithstanding the fact that he could have been exempted. Amid loud applause the ayes carried again, apparently unanimous.

Col. Jas. S. BROWNING of Pocahontas was called on and kept the crowd in an uproar of laughter for several minutes.

Climate and Society

Judge George E. CASSELL of the N and W. was the next speaker and complimented the farmers on the stand they had taken. He paid a tribute to the great Southwest and said that if Tazewell county farmers backed up their demonstrators in his work as they had there today the next year would be the greatest the farmers of the county ever had. Judge CASSELL urged the farmers to plant more corn, sow more oats and wheat, that the world is pleading with the farmers for bread and meat, and unless the farmers heeded the call great suffering would result. He urged that the young men stick to the farm, and said that the farm hands at the end of the year were much better off financially that the majority of coal miners and workers in industrial plants. He also urged that the farmers build the tenants better homes, be liberal with them, and make their conditions more favorable, look after their families when they go sick, and there would be fewer men leaving the farms. The Judge earnestly begged the farmers to raise more chickens and he promised to come to Tazewell in the spring or summer and attend a farmers picnic, and see for himself if Tazewell chicken is as good as Montgomery can afford. He concluded his address by telling a story of a young man who went west. After the boy had been in a western state for a year or two his father wrote him and asked him how he liked it. His reply was that he liked it very well, but that they lacked society and climate. His father replied to the letter and told him that that was all they lacked in hell.

Farmers And Cattle Raisers to Combine

At a joint meeting of the Tazewell County Pure Bred Shorthorn Association, Inc. and the Tazewell Farmers Association, it was unanimously voted to unit the two in one incorporated organization to perform the work of both. In this way it will be possible to get better results in live stock improvement and will be beneficial to both. Six directors were elected from each of the old organizations to arrange the combination properly and to serve as directors of the new organization. This move was a great forward step. The officers elected were: R.S. MOSS, Grat BOWEN, P.G. BAUGH, D.B. DANIELS, A. ST. CLAIR, Jr., M.L. PEERY, J. Ed. PEERY, W. Archie THOMPSON, C.N. BARNES, Harry THOMPSON, W.T. ASCUE, G.M. BROWN.