Items of Interest to Farmers
■ THE FARMERS’ INSTITUTE.
HE Middle Tennessee Farm
ers’ Institute, in its present
annual session, has gathered
at Nashville a remarkably
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fine body of men, such an as
sembly as betokens the high
grade of the Middle Tennessee agri
culturists, and with such a spirit as
promises much for the progress and
betterment of the agricultural inter
ests in this favored region, where
all • the conditions for . success
ful farming are as good as frie world
anywhere knows.
It is very gratifying after so much
of political wrangling and exploita
tion to find that the people of the
State are not wholly obsessed with
such things, but beyond and above
it all there is a looking .forward, a
regard for the substantial things of
life and their betterment; a progress
that means elevation and the attain
ment of all that modern enlighten
ment and an advanced civilization
should bring.
Middle Tennessee is one of the
best farming regions on the earth,
and its farmers, as fully demon
strated by the institute now in ses
sion in Nashville, are the peers of
any the world can produce. With
such a combination this region
should advance to great achievement
in agricultural lines, and when ag
riculture advances, all industries,
trade and other interests keep this
pace.
The Banner is especially pleased
to note the improved attendance and
liyely interest taken in the Middle
T'ennessee Farmers’ Institute. It
must result in great good to the far
mers and the public generally. It
is to be hoped that the institute will
continue to grow in importance, and
that the spirit of progress it imbues
in those who attend will be far
reaching in results. —Nashville Ban
ner. '
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