The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-11
Agricultural.


ro each our Farmers How to Farm.
We have not the remotest idea who is the
.,-bor ofthe following article printed in the
%T;iInington Rerietc, but its views are very
;miIar to those of a paragraph torn up last
,raek. because on reflection we concluded
WI motive in making the criticism would
Ia mis-construed, as have been other COM
,Snnts on the Departmental action. Yet we
rannot help thinking with "-Norh Caro-
i,1' that it would have been better to
,aI INQUIRY of filling the post of first as
l;.tant to DIR. Ledoux, before sending the
motor. at considerable expense We presume,
tnbunt UP some outsider, and confer 1t Don
IE, The position is a desirable one, (S75
Ln nr month at Chapel Hill being equivalent
500 at Raleigh, and we would like to
zoo If given to some one OF our deserving
11nnr men, if we have any one capable to
rerform its duties.
I'II~ In relation to DR.. Ledoux it may be ad-
s1abIe to mention that he comes of South
III ovtraction, be the son of Rev. DR.. LIE
InnT of Cornwall-on-the Hudson, New
WI who is a native of Louisiana and a
homocrat, we believe, though he recently
e,nn1 the FARMER N MECHANIC too ultra
sr his longer perusal. The young Doctor
has worked, from all accounts, very faith
fnllv and intelligently and has been sug-
rasted to us as a possible good selection tor
State Geologist, in case the Survey be
continued after 1890.
Mr.. EDITOR The statement is pub
r-6aJ that the Executive Committee of our
Stafe Board of Agriculture have ordered
Nv Iedoux to proceed for Baltimore and
New York in order to procure for the Agri-
cnItural Department, the services OF an as
Si.tant TO that State officer. If this state
monr * correct, it conveys a commentary
imam the manner in which the claims of our
2orth Carolina men of science are ignored.
There are men in our own State who are
comnetent to fill either the place of DIR. Lee
danr who is New Yorker, or Of any assls-
tant he NAV need. This Department of
Agriculture, including the Office of State
Chemist, has been in existence two or three
Years. with a diversity ofsentlment among our
nrnnIe as to the usefulness and benefits result
tine tberefrom to the State and the objects
contemplated. DR.. Ledoux has beenlmparting
Instruction during this time to Il farmers,
and to Young men who have aided him, and
to other who have sought Instructions from
him in his department. Besides our State
University and our different colleges and
Summaries of instruction profess to teach and
hVetaugnt Tor q long term, cIculicdl dldl-
ysis. and agricultural chemistry and other
branches pertaining to whatever relates to
the chemical and Agricultural Departments
ofOur State. In the face of all this, have
We no man in North Carolina who is fit to
fill the place that DR.. Ledoux mas gone
abroad to secure a man to fill? Are we for
ever to pursue this unsatisfactory and NOR
tfyng course of neglecting home talent and
nome science and skill, by filling so many of
or best places with men imported here
from other States to supplant home men
who are equally competent? Have we nc
State pride in North Carolina? Are we for
ever to pay tribute and make subsidies to
other States, to the neglect of our own In,
teress and Of our own men of skill, merit
fitness, and principle, who are ready and anxi-
Gus TO ill places that are filled and being filled
BY gentlemen from other States !? The writer
kpES at least a dozen young men In North
carolina native and to the manner born"
WHO are competent to fill any position, chem
teal or Agricultural, hat pertains to the
State Department of Agriculture, and who
are now contemplating a removal to other
&;a'es Tor the want OF patronage and en-
l3yment In North Carolina. And yet, there
remains a shameful and inappreciative dis
POSITION on the part of our people and our
a~t.n0fltles to neglect this home talent and
us native merit, by running North and to
UAef States for such services and for such
.ga as can easily be found, in any amount,
North Carolina.
NORTH CAROLINA.
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