Milford chronicle., 1889-02-01

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alton a bill regarding the peach yellow The
measure will be almost an exact copy ofthe
statute now in vogue in Michigan. It will
make it unlawful for any person to keep any
peach or other tree infected with yellowsi or
to ofier for sale or shipment the fruit thereof
both tree and fruit are to be destroyed as pub
lie nuisances, and no damageis TO be awarded
for trespass where any one enters on the do
main Of another and destroys such a tree.
Commissioners will be provided for in the
act. whose duty it shall be to examine all
trees in a hundred or district reported to
them and a penalty is to be imposed on any
owner who refuses to uproot trees when mott
fed. or who sells fruit from diseased trees
in violation Of the act. The commissioners
to be appointed will be sworn, and are to re-
ceive fixed salary for every day Of actual
service.
Both Houses adjourned until Monday.
MONDAY.
Both Houses met at 5 O'Clock and trans
acted considerable business in the way of
introducing, and giving notice of private
acts.
OF the public legislation, the most impor-
tant was the introduction, by Representative
Rckles, of bill calling Constitutional Con-
vention It provides for the assembling Of
the convention at Dover on the first Tuesday
in December next, said convention to be com
posed of fifty delegates, three from Whining
20 ola IL
by voters of cities and hundreds and FIVE del
egates at large from each county to be elected
by voters of county, no voter to vote for more
than three such delegates; the election to be
held the first Tuesday Ct October next, dele
gates to be three years resident in State and
one year in county or hundred and toreceive
S. per day and mileage, election to be held
by the regular officers and vacancies to be
filed by special elections. The bill con-
cludes with recommendation that the new
constitution to be framed by the convention,
be submitted to the people for ratification
The Secretary ofthe State is to publish the
act in two or more newspapers in each county
for three months, the constitution is TO be
submitted to the legal voters of the State for
their approval. It was ordered that I,5oo
copies be printed for the House.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Maull to amend
chapter p, volume 10, Laws of Delaware,
refers to the makeup of the State Board Of
Health. Under the act creating the board
allopaths have full swing aud the homoeo-
paths are shouldered out. This ammend-
....,t .-.1i ,,,o,, fT,a 1co~ 70 ff,a 1ettar aud
give them representation on the board.
There is deep rooted feeling that Della
ware College, as an agricultural College, is
badly located, and for this reason delega-
ton from Sussex went before the legislature
to oppose its being granted a new charter for
20 years. X. S. Johnston, of Stockley, Del,
was appointed the spokesman, and he set
set forth that this institution had been re-
ceiviug for the past eighteen years, s4,9So
anuually-or nearly 100000 in alias an ag-
ricultural college, and yet has not graduated
a single scholar in the agricultural course.
This fund came originally by virtue ofan act
Of Congress of 1867, from land grant by the
general government tor the purpose-ofaiding
agricultural colleges in the States. Under
that act each State received 10000 acres of
public lands for each member of the national
House and Senate; Delaware's share being
consequently 10000 acres. The net proceeds
Of the sale Of this 10000 acres amounted to
$4,000, which invested at per cent. yields
ST. $50 pear year. Delaware College, which
had previously been a purely classical and
scientific institution, when reiucorporated,
about February 1871, assigned one half in
terests to the State and added an agricultural
department in order 10 become entitled to
draw this annuity. Within the past year the
college has also, by virtue Of being the only
agricultural school in the State, become the
site ofau agricultural experiment station and
the beneficiary, as such of the $4,000 an
nual appropriation OF the Hatch bill. Now
the legislature is asked TO renew the charter
Of the college for an additional twenty years.
Since it is admitted that the expenditure Of
this annual s4,9So through this channel for
the past eighteen years has been unproduc-
tive af any practical results, and since the
charter has two more years to run, Mr.. John
ston urges that this Legislature postpone
action upon the pending bill, leaving the same
go over to the legislative session Of 1891. In
the two years to come it can be seen whether
the college, under its new management, will
be capable Of doing what it has hitherto
failed to accomplish.
Should it not succeed as an agricultural
college, Mr.. Johnston's position will be that
is the duty ofthe State to divert this fund to
some other institution which would promise
more satisfactory returns He claims that
agriculture, with the scientific knowledge
allied thereto, such as entomology, the chem
istry of soils and plants, the care and treat
ment Of live stock, veterinary surgery, etc,
can only be prohtably taught in a school
located upon farm aud devoted entirely TO
this special field. He would have the prac-
teal go hand in hand with the theoretical;
would have the student devote so many
hours each day to actual farm labor, as well
as to the study Of what may be termed the
science Of farming. Should Delaware Col
lege fail to yield satisfactory results during
the coming two years-as he anticipates will
be the case-not only because Of its being
more of a classical than an agricultural
school, but also because Of its unfavorable
location for agriculture and horticulture
he woulk favor the establishment of purely
agricultural school in a move central location,
say at OF below Dover. To such a school, he
asserts, practical men stand ready to contrib
ute literally and in connection with school
so located, an agricultural experiment sta
ton Of real value could be conducted. New
ark, he argues, is really north oft head Of
the Delaware Peninsula, and an agricultural
experiment station situated there would yield
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