The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-26

of Kansas, is published at an expense
of $40, OOO-2O,OOO copies being
issued. ,
For the biennial term ending April
L, 1889, Nebraska appropriated $2O8,,
74O for agricultural purposes, the
Board of Agriculture receiving 81, 600,
the Horticultural Society $4,000, the
cattle commission $SO,24O, the fish
and game commissions $l0,5OO, for
printing the agricultural and hortlcul,
tural reports $4,000, and $4,000
was appropriated for Nebraska hall at
the State University and Agricultural
College, this institution having an in
come of about $50, 900 annually. The
large appropriation for the cattle COM
mission was made to facilitate the
study of contagious diseases which
has been carried on upon an extensive
scale.
Dakota has been liberal with its
Agricultural College, appropriating
S43, 900 for the same for the past two
years, $4,000 for premiums at fairs,
and $l4, 900 for the department. OF
immigration exclusive of salaries.
In Colorado the Legislature of 1887
made no appropriations for the pro-
motion of agriculture. The State
Horticultural Society is doing a good
work, but a bill granting it $4,000
was defeated, and two bills appropriate
ing $40 for the Experiment Sta
ton for two years we're vetoed by the
Governor. The State fish commission
gets ST., 500 annually, and one-ifteenth
of a mill, regular tax, is appropriated
for cattle round-ups. The State Agrl-
cultural College has a regular income
from the State tax of one-Gfth Of a
mill, which nets it about So, 900 an
nually, out of which is paid about
$1,000 to the Board of Agriculture,
whose only duty is the control of the
Agricultural College, the balance
going to the college proper.
The California State Board of Agri-
culture, which controls the State Agri-
cultural Society, receives an appro-
priation of $l7,5OO annually; twenty
one district agricultural associations
get from $3.50 to $4,000 each, a total
of $33 $50; State Board of Horticul-
ture, Sis, 900; fish commission, $500,
of which not less than fifty per cent
must be expended on hatcheries. The
State does it's own printing, and the
cost of agricultural reports probably
reaches at least $40, 600. The Agri-
cultural College is a department of
the State University, which latter re-
ceives an annual ad Valorem tax of one
cent upon every 500 worth of taxable
property in the State. Of the sum so
collected, the university Board of
Regents votes a certain amount to the
Agricultural College. The Experiment
Station is now supported wholly by
the national act.
Oregon gives $4,000 annually to its
Board of Agriculture, and an equal
amount to the fish commission and to
the State Agricultural College.
Washington Territory makes no ap-
preparations for the advancement of
agriculture.
Wyoming spends $4,000 a year on
it's agricultural societies, and $4,000
on it's fish commission, out of total ap-
preparations of $50, 900 annually.
The Arizona Legislature in 1887 ap-
propriated S. 1000 annually for the
commissioner Of immigration, 5000
to the Arizona Industrial Exposition,
$500 for experiments in artesian
wells, and for a sanitary live stock
a special tax of one cent
on each 500 Of the assessed valuation
of cattle, which will amount to about
SIS, 200. The total for agricultural
purposes is thus $22, 500.
SOUTHERN STATES.
Kentucky imposes a tax of one cent
on each 500 of taxable property for
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege at Lexington, in connection with
which is an Experiment Station. The
amount collected under this tax in
1885 was $l8,42O; 1886, $2O,3l9;
1887, 49, $50; or an average of $l9,-
497 annually. A commissioner of
agriculture, horticulture and statistics
has an Office at the capitol. He is paid
a salary of $4,000. An equal sum
is given for the work of his depart
ment, and $1,252 was expended last
year for printing. A license fee of
SIS is imposed upon each brand of
fertilizer, which goes into the treasury
of the Agricultural College and
amounted to $1,000 for the fiscal year
ending June l, 1888, including ST. per
hundred for the analysis tags fur
nished by the station. In case of an
outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia, the
State Board of Health is authorized to
spend $4,000 in stamping it out.
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