The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-11

people are not in favor of it, for it
was not canvassed on a single stump
in North Carolina " "You are mis-
taken" said Mr. Eaves. az made it
an issue upon every stump in my
county that my opponent voted against
the Industrial School Act of the last
Legislature, and beat him upon that
ISSUE" The bill passed its final read
ing in the Senate and became a law
on the Sd day of March, 1887, by q
vote of % to Is:
Capt. S. B. Alexander, Mr.. W. R.
Williams and Mr. Pou, Mr.. Leazar
and Mr.. Fries yer among it's princiE
PAL advocates in the Legislature. Both
presiding officers were its friends.
Two years before Gov. Stedman had
engineered the first act through over
the heads of an unfair and flibuster-
ing opposition. The passage of the
Hatch bill about this time appropria-
ting $4,000 to the College and Elk
pertinent Farm to be run in connec-
ton herewith, the generous donation
of Mr.. Pullen of this site of sixty
acres surrounding, the strong pressure
of two great conventions of farmers
and the we'll directed efforts of it's
friends in the city and elsewhere, with
aid of friendly Representatives, swept
the bill through the Legislature as if
by storm. 1t will be a matter of in
terest one of these days to call the
ayes and noes, but 1 will not call them
now.
The main features of this act are
worthy of attention here. It pro-
vides that the name of the school shall
be "The North Carolina College Of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts"
that it be located on the lands do.
mated by R. S. Pullen; that it shall be
managed and controlled by the Board
of Agriculture and five persons, who
together constitute it's trustees. Their
names appear upon the corner, stone).
That the interest on the Land Scrip
Fund, $500 a year, shall be trans
ferred to it on June 30th 1888, or as
oon thereafter as it shall be needed;
that the Directors of the Penitentiary
shall furnish requisite brick and stone
and convict labor as they are able
without interfering with previous con-
tracts; that the assets and accumu-
lated funds of the Industrial School
be turned over to this College, and
also the surplus funds of the Depart
ment of Agriculture not required in
it's regular work. (The expenses for
regular work had just been limited
by another act to $4,000 a year).
That the Experiment and Fertilizer
Control Station be connected with the
college, and authority given to the
Board to turn over to it all real and
personal property in their possession,
and also to receive donations from the
United States government for Expert
ment Stations, and then in accordance
with the Act of Congress. (This Act
appropriates $4,000 per annum to
the College of Agriculture and to
Experiment Station to be I'll in con-
nection Herewith. Part of this fund,
under a construction of our Act of
Assembly, is being applied to the Fer,
tilizer Control S~tation). That the use
of the Camp Mangum tract, 800 acres,
situated half mile west of the State
Fair Ground, be given to this college.
That 100 students may be admitted
free, each county being entitled TO a
scholarship for every member it sends
to the General Assembly. Such stu
dents shall furnish evidence of their
good moral character and their ina
bility to pay tuition. That every
student be required to take a course
in manual training. That the Board
of Trustees be composed of one-half
of each political party. The laws of
North Carolina do not seem to con
template the possibility of a third
party and have made no provision for
it in the government of this institu,
ton.
A summary of some of the main
features of the Hatch Act is necessary
to a proper understanding of our Act
of Assembly. It passed i its present
shape March I'd, 1887, the day before
ours became a law. It provides that
in order to promote practical scientific
investigation and experiment in the
principles of agriculture, and to diff
fuse such information among the peo-
pie, there shall be established under
the direction Of the agricultural college o.
colleges of each State established and
to be established under the Land
Grant Act of 1862, a department. to
be known as Gan Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station" That results of
experiments and Investigations shall
be published quarterly in bulletin
to be sent to the newspapers of the
State. That for the expenses of in
vestigation and dissemination the sum
of SIS, 600 per annum shall be appro-
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