Not long before the riot, the two had urged local black farmers to avoid white cotton brokers and sell directly to buyers in Galveston.

He remembered when state officials came to the village with bullhorns and police escorts, urging farmers to collect their checks.

And they're urging farmers and horse owners to step up security.

They urged widows and farmers to invest for $40 each and several did.

They began a radio campaign urging farmers to sell their animals.

Upon landing in Barbados and other islands, they quickly urged local farmers to change their main crops from cotton and tobacco to sugar cane.

The police are also urging farmers to keep a close watch on their barns until the aronsonists are caught.

But he urged poor farmers to keep working their land and not migrate to town in hope of better jobs.

Southern Populists denounced the convict lease system, while urging white and black small farmers to unite on the basis of shared economic self-interest.

And it urged beleaguered African farmers to plant other crops.