Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-12-14
TINsLEY & MORTON, Propristers.
FRIDAY MORNING. DEC. Ia, 1894.
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AS the Masonic Building. in which tn
Staunton VINDICAToR has had its offic'
for the last ten years, will be torn down t.
make room for aneW Masonic Temple, ant
as the work of demolition will commenc
on January 1st, the VINDICAToR Office
after that date, will be found at No. Il
New Street, three doors South of Mali
Street.
INTERESTING READING ON AGRI
CULTURE IN VIRGINIA.
The President OF the Virginia State
Board of Agriculture (Mr. S. Wexford Cor
bin), has recently submitted to Gov OFFER
rail-, the 18th annual report Of the Board
The Board is composed OF ten members
appointed by the Governor, one from eacl
Congressional district. The member from
the 10th District is the Hon. AbsOlonl
learn that during the past seven years the
Board has received $73, 900, from the State
Treasury. The president criticises the
Legislature for failing to enact laws sug-
gested by the Board. He names dozen
such laws, looking especially to the inter
est OF agricultural communities, that have
been recommended by the Board, to each
and every one of which the Legislature has
turned deaf ears. Mr.. Corbin complains
that the Board has been disappointed, and
greatly discouraged in its efforts to pro-
mote Immigration by the failure OF the
Legislature to pass any law whatever on
the subject. He characterizes the Fertil-
izer law as ''neither equitable or just
and doubts the wisdom of the section OF
the law that gives the Board Of Agricul-
ture the power to settle finally, and with
out appeal. questions Of dispute where
fraud is charged, thus comforting upon the
Board the powers of the Court OF Appeals.
A case OF this sort was decided at the
meeting in Norfolk this year. between the
Standard Guano Co., and J. G. Egberwine
involving $1,000. MI. Corbin, also calls
attention to the fact that there are in Vir-
ginia three agencies OF the State working
for one and the same end, but on separate
and distinct lines, namely, the State Board
of Agriculture, whose duties are not clear
" defined; a Commissioner Of Agriculture,
whose duties are complex: and the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College, where is
located the State Experiment Station, over
which the State Board, nor the Commits
sioner, can have any control whatever.
MI. COrbin tells the Governor, that while
these agencies are not jealous, one of the
other. and work tremendously together,
they realize that if there was but one agen-
CIV for the common work, more would lie
accomplished, and it would be done more
efficiently, and more economically than is
possible under the present arrangement.
Accompanying the report of the Board,
is the annual report of the Commissioner
1t contains full crop statistics; fertilizer
analyses; and immigration addresses. For
convenience, the State is divided into three
SECUlU1lS. L. L putWdlCl. tLlC fCSCl6tUlS
trucking districts. 2. Middle Virginia,
the fruit and tobacco region. 3. The Val
ley, the stock, hay and pasture section. Of
this last division, Augusta county leads in
wheat and corn. raising over 500, coo bush
els Of wheat. and more than 700, goo bushels
of corn. Rockingham follows closely.
Loudoun is the largest grain growing coun
ty in the State, having raised this year
over 500, 0G0 bushels of wheat, and 1,000,
O00 bushels of corn. Five farms in Ail-
gusta are mentioned as devoted especially
to raising blooded stock, viz: ". II.
Brew. II. A. S. Hamilton, Hamrick Bros,
G. ]. Pratt, and Samuel Byers.
The use Of fertilizers in tie State is in
creasing at the rate Of nearly 5000 tons
yearly. The sales reported this year aggre-
gate over 156, 600 tons, for which the farm
ers Of Virginia have expended about four
million dollars There are 80 fertilizer
Graham 81 is located at Stanton. There
is, also, at Staunton mill for grinding
raw bone, owned by Witt & Holt, and Ole
near Waynesboro belonging to 6. K. Koi
ner.
The addresses delivered before the Ina
migration Convention at Richmond, Oct
IS, are published in full. The one from our
townsman, Judge Chas. Grattan, interest
ed us very much. But we have some doubt
as to whether the Judge will be allowed
to continue to Craze his cattle in Highland,
after saying that more than 700 souls from
that lone little county" have gone to make
their homes in the West. And the Judge
proves this by the venerable ticket seller
of the C. Il o., Maj. z. H. Woodward
How many others may have gone is hot
stated: but these many the Major himself
shipped. Seriously, is not this statement
which we do not doubt the truth Of in the
least, calculated to cause the prospective
immigrant to question the wisdom of com
ing TO a section from which the natives
have one in such numbers? 1t would
have N well for Judge Grattan to have
given his admirable address the causes
of the Coalition Of things he named
We have already said that the informa-
ton Oh which we based the statement that
the West Virginia election laws made no
provision for assisting the illlterate voter
was erroneous. We have received from
Mr.. Charles M. Gallaher formerly of
Staunton, and now in the office OF the Sec
rotary of State of West Virginia at
Charleston, copy Of the election laws of
tions making provision for the illiterate
Sec. s. The commissioners CT election of
each precinct in their district shall appoint
two poll clerks, one from each of the politi-
cal parties which east the largest number Of
votes at the last preceding general election in