The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-06-13
HOW MONEY WAS WASTED.
Corruptions and Exfrava.
gance of the Agricultural
Department Under
l4Oring.


found to have been rotten through
and through. Governor Colman, the
new Commissioner, may have hoped
to find something to hold on to, but
if he did entertain this idea he will
have to give it up or suffer in the at
tempt.
The leading idea of the depart
ment seems to have been TO spend
the appropriations, amounting to
nearly three quarters of a million
annually, as lavishly and for as great
personal benefits as possible. The
facts of the seeds have already been
given. That appropriation has been
criminally perverted. The sorghum
appropriation has been spent in a
manner worse still. 1t would be
merciful to call the way it was done
the manifestation of ignorance on
the part of Loring and his so called
experts. Thousands and thousands
have been squandered on criminally
ignorant experiments requiring cost
ly machinery, which not even the
head expert knew how to use. No
beneficial results have been achieved,
unless while setting ont intending to
disprove Professor Golfers results,
for which Lorine drove him from
the department, they substantiated
them all in spite of themselves, may
be called beneficial What was call
ed science was little better than the
merest charlatanry. What has cost
million is not worth cent. Igno-
rance, pretention, speculation and
downright dishonesty are the best
that can be imputed to the concern.
Not only is the seed fund exhaust
ed through these causes, but the
laboratory fund is also out. If pos
sible there has been greater igno-
rance and extravaganza here than in
the seed branch of the grand combi-
nation. For instance, a socalled
furnace, but appropriately nick nam
ed "the kennel" was constructed at
a cost of about $500, and proved not
to be worth cent. 1t was the in
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