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

Speeches were made by Mr.. Primrose,
Maj. Tucker, Capt. Ashe, Mr..
Ashley and others. The Board of
Agriculture appointed a committee to
report at next meeting upon the sufi-
cheney of the amount rendered to
establish the school. They adopted q
resolution establishing the Experiment
tai Farm.
At the meeting of the Board, JAN
uary 10th, 1886, the citizens commit
tee made another supplemental report.
The Board adopted a resolution
against the establishment of the
school upon the offers made, but do
mated SIS, 900 annually, to be applied
as soon as a sum adequate, in their
Judgment, should be offered. The
vote in the Board was understood to
be close. The discussion was adj
journed to the newspapers and for
awhile it was lively. Never did in
dustrial education get a better adver.
tisement. Both sides claimed friends
with the school. The dispute was
upon the adequacy of the sums
offered and certain technicalities.
At the meeting of the Board of
Agriculture, April 21st, 1886, the
citizens committee again appeared be-
fore them and increased the offer of
the city of Raleigh to $4,000 in
money. This offer was accepted and
a resolution to establish the school at
this city was adopted. 'Messrs. Leach,
Moring and Wynne were appointed
directors on the part of the city. A
site was purchased from DR.. Grissom,
and negotiations were pending for let
ting out the contract to build when
some events occurred which materially
changed the whole history of indus
trial education in North Carolina.
AS far back as 1885 Mr.. Lovill had
offered an amendment to the Indus
trial School bill then pending, that the
Land Scrip Fund be taken away from
the University and given to the pro-
posed school. It was Lost. Some
time after that Col. Polk began to
make the same demand through the
columns of his paper. On the 18th
of January, 1887, a mass-meeting of
farmers, called together to consider
the condition and needs of our farm.
ers, passed a resolution, offered by Mr..
Wilson, for the farmers of Swift
Greek, to the effect that the farmers
needed an Agricultural College, and
that the Land Scrip Fund be diverted
from the University and applied
thereto.
On the 26th of, January a great
mass-meeting of farmers and work
ingmen, called together from forty
counties by Col. Polk, mainly to con-
slider this question, was organized with
Elias Carr as chairman, and passed a
resolution to the effect ~ that the
time had come to establish an Agri
cultural and Mechanical College in &C
cordance with the Land Scrip Act;
(2) that the interest of the Land Scrip
Fund should be paid to the college;
(3) that a sufficient amount from the
general treasury be appropriated and
available convict labor to establish,
equip and maintain such college, upon
a basis equal to the demands of the
hour; (4) that the surplus funds of
the Agricultural Department be util-
lied in this connection; (5) that every
student be required to take a course
of manual training; (6) that the pay
ment of the Land Scrip Fund to this
college should not work a diminution
of the appropriations to the Uni
versity; CD that the funds and prop
erty of the Industrial School, includ-
ing tie donations of the city of Ral-
eigh, in accordance with a resolution
of its Board of Aldermen, be turned
over to the proposed college. These
resolutions were prepared by P. A.
Dunn, chairman of committee; A. D..
Jones, L. l.. Polk, and others. A
committee, ]. T. LeGrand, chairman,
H. E. Norris, D. Men. Mckay and Geo.
z. French, was appointed to transmit
these resolutions to the General AS
sembly and, with the aid of the com
mittee appointed by the convention of
the 18th inst, to secure the passage of
an act embodying these resolutions.
The committee was ably assisted
by Mr.. Primrose, DR.. Dabney, Mr.. H.
E. Fries, Mr.. Leazar and many others,
and they did their work well. They
prepared the bill which is in every
essential particular the Act establish
ing this college. Mr.. Leazar intro
duced the bill for the committee. In
its passage through the Legislature it
did not have a sail "through seas of
heavenly rest" Not every n who
voted for it favored it. Some wanted
to reduce the appropriation to the
University; others wished to cripple
the Agricultural Department. They
were, in fact, however, saving the de-
partment and rendering it far more
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