The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-28
GRAVE WRONG DONE GEORGIA.
DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE
SLANDERED.

Prospector From Minnesota Reports
That the Department Is Unable 10
Furnish Him With Any InfOrRsa-
tiOn About the Inducements Offer
ed by the state to AgricuIturaIfsts.
Commissioner Nesbit Denies That
the Man Ever Made Application
For Information and Points Out
That the state Has Recently Conn
piled Valuable Work For Dis
tributiOn.
Atlanta, Ga. May Z7.-Commissioner of
Agriculture Nesbitt returned TO his Office
at the capitol to-day. after being away
looking after the state exhibit at Nash
vile. and addressing farmers institutes
since the latter part Of last week.
In some Of the newspapers accumula ted
in his office ne found interviews and artl-
Giles that caused him considerable annoy
ance II appears that a Minnesotaon by
the name of DIR. J. c.. Currier, repre-
senting himself as the agent of the farm
ers' institute corps of Minnesota, has been
doing some talking about the Georgia de-
partment of agriculture. DR.. Currier says
that ne came TO Georgia for the purpose
OF investiga ting conditions here, with
view. of advising farmers of his state, who
want to come here and settle. The Min
nesota farmers, he says, are dissatisfied
with their present condition, and threaten
a general exodus to the south, and Geor-
ga especially. He says they want to
keep the farmers in Minnesota if possible,
but If they cannot. then the organization
which he represents wants to be sure that
that they are not going from bad to
worse when they pull up stakes to head
this way.
DR.. Currier, it appears took it for grant
ed that the state department of agricul-
ture was no good, and without seeking
for any information there. after entering
the southern portion of the state he gave
out some newspaper interviews expressing
his views along the line. BY these inter-
views and the articles based upon them
the department has been criticised for
falling to provide litera ture giving detail
ed information of the states resources.
This, Commissioner Nosbitt to-day de-
clared, was "A great injustice, as his de-
partment only a short time ago complet-
ed the publication of what has been gener-
ally commended as a most valuable work
of this kind. The book covers nearly a
thousand pages and goes into details of
the soil, water powers, climate, production,
etc, of every county in the state. In view
of this and other similar publications
issued by the department all of which
compare favorably with the work of other
state departments of agriculture, Commits
soner Nesbitt thinks that his department
has been done a great injustice by the
prominence and credit given to the attack
OF DR. Currier, who denounced the depart
ment for failure to supply this sort of in
formation when he had never taken the
trouble to ask for it, There is a very
strong suspicion that DR.. Currier does not
want 10 learn the real advantages offered
by Georgia. but that his real object is to
go back to Minnesota with tale to tell
the disconnected farmers there which will
dissuade them from heading this way, and
discourage them from coming south to
better their condition. If DR.. Currier is
a bona fide seeker after information for
Minnesota home-seekers, Commissioner
Nesbitt says he can furnish him with
enough in concise and comprehensive form
TO stampede the whole state of Minnesota
70 Georgia.