The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-10-09
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To THE CHRoNICnE:-In a recent issue
of the CHRONICLE, | read a communication
signed Tar Heel wherein the fact is
stated that by the Act establishing the
department of Agriculture in 1877, the
Board as now constituted is not according
to law. He calls attention to the first sec
ton IN the Act creating the Department,
where it is provided how the Board shall
be constituted, and that the entire De-
partment ''shall be under the control and
supervision" of said Board that the same
must be so composed as to include ''the
President of the Agricultural College of
the State He has certainly made good
point so far as the COnStitutionaity of the
Board is concerned-but, could he not
have gone much further in his interroga-
tions and shown that the Department,
under its present control and supervis-
ion, IS not only illegal; but under such
regulations as may best promote the Ag-
rlcultural interests of the State (Scc. Il,
Art. 3 it is also unconstitutional Does not
the interrOgations Of Tar Heel" lead to
other enquiries no less astounding to the
farmers Of the State than the one pro
pOundedI The first to present itself is
II the Board Is illegally constituted are
the acts OF the Department valid Are
they legal! Is it not fact that some times,
after jury has rendered a verdict, it is
set aside. because the jury was not legally
constituted! 1t is said that the grand
jury IN our county prosecuted the Sheriff
Tor specializing IN county script, and that
because the foreman had not paid his
taxes the preSentment is lnvaliated on ac
count of the disqualification. of the fore
man. How can it be different with the
Department of Agriculture
-hy-ho
in North Carolina as the President Of an
Agricultural College, Why have we not
such a College, Did not the General Gov
ernment give to the State a liberal dona-
ton in land script for the express purpose
of an Agricultural College Where is it Z
Has the University got it . Is that the
Agricultural College of the State . Is the
President of that institution, eX OfficiO,
1.-The President of the Agricultural Col
lege Of the State 4 What does he know
about farming
Under existing circumstances, can the
United States now demand of North Car
olina the return of said land script, or.
to refund its present value, the State not
having cOmplyed with the terms Of the
gift: Will somebody tell the farmers of
North Carolina about tnis land script? We
are becoming interested in this thing called
VI 50 ctltu tIle 1ASElcuIt tlTtl department
of the State And, by no means, ignoring
our College requirement, we are smarting
under this fifty thousand dollar tax levyed
upon lis every year to do nothing but to
show abroad our wOnderOus resources and
get nothing III return but the poor Crof-
terS OF Scotland who never saw them. We
have iliddenit"S and Phosphate Rock and
Tin, &c., &c, but Is it not humiliating,
with all our lavish expenditures, the ubi-
quitous Yankee not only has to discover
them for us but to tell us what they are.
Does it not appear that the Department
has failed in its "regulatlons' SO as to
best promote the agricultural interests
of the State?-and. is it not cranky on
the subject of Immigration and minerals!
1t is said that Bail mountain has been
on a bender very recently, but her rum
blinSs will not compare with the ballot
box thunder that will roll over North Car
olna three years hence.