The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-19

for institutes, S5,OOU SecreIary :
salary, $500. The State Agricul-
tural Society receives S2,250; the
Horticultural Society, $500, and the
State Dairymen's Association, $500
annually. The State agricultural re-
ports include the proceedings of the
Board and State Society, of which
1880 copies are printed annually, at
an expense of S25, 600, and 5000
quarterly reports at an expense OF
$3.50. The State increased the Agri-
cultural College fund to $500, 600,
and it's interest payment on this &C
count amounts to So 5000 annually.
By SPECIAL act the Legislature of 1887
appropriated 500, 900 for additional
buildings at the Agricultural College,
and So, 900 annually for four years
for the Experiment Station in con-
nection Herewith. In 1888, the fish
commissions we're giving $50, 900, and
in 1887 SIS, 900 for the propagation
and protection Of fish. The total an
nual expenditures for the promotion
of agriculture are about $50, 900.
CENTRAL STATES
Ohio, for the fiscal year ended No.
vember Is, 1887, paid $4,000 for the
ordinary expenses of its Board of
Agriculture and improvements on the
State Fair grounds; Experiment
Station, $3,436; fish and game COM
mission, $7,446; live stock commits
sion, $2,227; State Horticultural So
ciety, 1000; State forestry bureau,
1855. 1t also paid $23,3O6 to the
State University, which has a depart
ment of agriculture. On condition
of raising an equal sum, county agri-
cultural societies may draw 5000 from
each county treasury, amounting in
lightweight counties to ST., 600 max
ing the total appropriations for agri-
culture $87, $50, or about l l-3 per
cent. of the total State expenditures.
A State dairy commission is also sup
ported.
In Illinois, the Legislature of 1885
appropriated annually for agricultural
purposes for the years 1886 and 1887
as follows: State Board of Agricul.
ture, $l3,2OO; State Horticultural
Society, $4,000; local agricultural
societies, $500 annually; State
cattle commission, $40, 900; fish com
mission, $6,OOO; Agricultural Col
lege, $29, 600; dairy association, $500;
total for promoting agriculture, $685.
200.
The last Legislature in Indiana
ended in a deadlock, and made no
special appropriations. The Board Of
Agriculture gets 1880 annually reg
ularly, and the State Horticultural
Society $500 a year, and the fish COM
mission $4,000, while the local socie'
ties get the benefit of the license fees.
The agricultural appropriations in
Wisconsin for 1887 we're: Farmers
Institutes, $l2,O 900; State Agricul-
tural Society, 81, 600; fifty-two country
agricultural societies, $lO,4OO; North
Wisconsin Agricultural Association,
So, 100; State Horticultural Society,
$1,000; Wisconsin Industrial Asso-
citation, ST., 900; Central and South
western Industrial Association, 5000
each, or $1,000; State Dairymen's
Association, $1,000; Wool Growers
Association, $lOO; paper for and
printing of reports of the State Agri-
cultural, Horticultural and Dairymen's
Associations, Experimental Station
and North Wisconsin Association,
Sl7,647; postage on reports, $77O;
j~anitor for agricultural rooms, $500;
fish commission, S IL, 900; State and
county veterinary service, $5,Ol7;
total, $68, 63l.7O. The State is usu-
ally very liberal towards it's vast agri-
cultural interests, although a bill to
divorce the Agricultural College from
the University, and giving the indie
pendent college $3.50, 900, failed in
1886.
The Michigan Legislature, at its
last session, for the maintenance Of
the Agricultural College, including
additions to the buildings, ap-
.ropriated $3.50, sos; for new buildings
and important additions to existing
ones, $2S, 700; equipments for the
weather service, $2,287.5O; mainte-
nance of the weather service, $4,000;
expenses of the forestry commission,
ST., 700. The Michigan Horticultural
Society also has a small appropriation
and the reports of both it and the
State Board Of Agriculture are printed
by the State.
To BE CONTINUED.