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Farmers To Meet

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Day
5
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Indianapolis, Oct. 28.- One week from election day the sixteenth annual session of the Farmers' National congress will assemble in this city to continue for several days, and according to present indications it will be largeiy attendcd. The sharp advance in the price of cereals has furnished to many agriculturists v.'ho take au interest in the congress the wherewithal to make the trip from their homes for the purpose of listening ta_the papers and taking part in the discussions. The present offlcers of the association arej President- B. P. Clayton of Indianola, Iowa. Vice presidents - Major G. M. Ryals of Savannah, Ga.; Colonel J. O. Cun ningham of Cunningham, N. C. Secretary- John M. Stahl of Chicago. The national congress is entirely nonpartisan, and is in the nature of a conference of farmers for discussion on matters relating exclusively to farmers, and for the recommendation to legislative bodies of such legislation as is beneficial to tgricultural interesta. At the coming convention the quostions of overproduction, the ad' rawtages of large and of small farms, the relations of millers to farmers, the duty of the national gavernment toxa.ru sheep husbandry and klndred subjecte will be discussed by leading farmeis of the country.

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Ann Arbor Register