The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-13
THE AGRICULTURAL
DEPARTMENT
1T PASSES INTO NEW AND UN-
TRIED HANDS TOMORROW.
The Retiring Officers Can Go Out With
the Consciousness That They
Have Done Well.

Tomorrow the agricultural department
will pass into new and unframed hands.
Commissioner Patterson, Secretary Brun-
er and Fertilizer Inspectors Terrell and
Enniss will retire and Messrs. New
borne, Ramsey, Jim Young and Kelly
will take charge. These last nam
ed officers will enter upon the discharge
of their duties without any previous ac-
quaintance with the work committed to
their hands. But they will find the bust
ness of the department in q state of eff
ficiency, land the hope is cordially INDUCED
that under their management the de-
partment may continue it's course of use
fulness to the State and its growth in the
affections of the people.
1t is through the efforts of those Off
GERS who today step out, and their pre-
decessors, that this department today
stands first among institutions of the
kind in the South. A great work has
been accomplished under their auspices.
They present to their successors in office
the best equipped and most effective de-
partment of the kind in the country, and
it behooves the incoming administration
holds the supremacy over similar insti-
buttons in the South, and that the on
ward march of progress is quickened.
Under the guiding hand of Commits
sioner Patterson and Secretary Bruner
and others like them the department of
agriculture has steadily developed the
objects of its creation; and by their
faithfulness and discretion has grown
in usefulness and Importance, not alone
to the farming, but to all of North Caro-
lina's material interests, until it has be-
come one of the States great institu-
tons.
The members of the board will bear
with them in their retirement the high
esteem of their fellow citizens. They
may reflect with satisfaction upon the
success of their efforts, and enjoy the
gra tifying consciousness of duty faith
fully performed.
This paper a week ago spoke in detail
of the work of Mr.. Patterson, the able
and obliging retiring commissioner, than
whom there was never a better officer
or more efficient commissioner. The peo-
pie of North Carolina will not soon for
get him.
Speaking of Secretary Burners retire
ment the, Southern States Magazine"
published at Baltimore, says, under the
heading of North Cardinals Loss"
Regret will be felt by all persons inter
ested in the welfare of North Carolina
that the new board of agriculture of that
State has seen fit to make practically a
clean sweep of the officials of the board.
Among those who will retire is Mr.. T..
X. Bruner, who for eleven years has
been n most efficient secretary keenly
alive to the responsibilities of his posi-
ton and progressive purpose to do
all in his power to develop the agricul-
tural wealth and other great resources
of his State. His experience and knowl-
edge must now yield at least to unfa-
miliarity with the duties of the office"
This opinion is of special value, coming
as it does from a distant State, and
shows that his work has been of ex
ceptional public value to have made it
possible for the Southern States Maya
zine, in a distant State, to promulgate a
notice of the nature of that above.