The Monitor-register., 1897-01-15
Auuua, Meeting state board OF AgrI-
culture.

the State Board of Agriculture opened in
the Supreme Court Chamber, In the State
House. Trenton, on Wednesday, with q
large attendance. Ex-Assemblyman ID.
d. Denise, of Freehold, president of the
organization, presided. The Executive
Committhe presented report, in which
it made reference to the efforts made to
secure the adoptionof the FIRST Principles
of Agriculture" as text book for use in
the public schools. The book has already
been recommended by several county
superintendents, and the committee is
confident of securing the appreciation of
the book on the part of the State Board
of Education.
The committee referred to the changes
which were taking place with respect to
farming, both in the matter of improved
machinery and different demands for pro
ducts of the farm, and advised the farmers
to educate themselves SO as to keep
thoroughly in accord with these changes.
A considerable part of the report was
devoted to discussion of the tendency of
wealthy men to establish country resi-
dences and conduct fancy farms. The
committee recognized that the working
people were being benefited, and that the
value Of adjacent farm lands were being
increased.
The committee spoke of visits made to
the Oradell Stock Farm of j. B. Lozier,
the farm of ex Mayor Hugh j. Graut,
of New York, nearby, and the farm of
Theodore Havemeyer, at Mahwah. The
committee s ated that they had been
pleasantly received. In connection with
the establishment of these farms the COM
mittee drew the deduction that capital
was the not enemy of labor, but It's best
freud.
The committee recommended that
greater attention be paid to the matter of
holding farmers institutes in the different
counties. Reference vas made in the
committee's report to the death of William
r. Ward, the former treasurer of the
Board, and suitable resolutions were pre-
sented.
Secretary Franklin Dye made an ex-
haustive report, in which he discussed the
farmer in his relation ss-"e community,
and recited some ofs5f5 . things which
needed attention. Heleferred to the ex-
tensive immigration of the past few years,
some of which was desirable, and others
not, and thought that something should
be done to remedy existing evils. Of the
diff culties to which the farmers are sub
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ness profitable, he mentioned the high
rate of interest and increasing @tion,
and the scarcity of desirable fa 4,slp.
He argued that the farmers wepe laying
more than their share of the taxe Con
basis of the real value of the property. He
read rather fully from the report of the
State Board of Taxation, where recon-
mendations were made for remedying
evils now existing in our tax laws. he
next discussed the subject of roads, and
spoke about the advance that had been
made in the building of stone roads, but
recognized that for years to come dirt
roads would continue to be the greater
portion of highways of the State. He
advocated the use of wide tires on both
stone and dirt roads.
A motion was made and adopted in
structing the president to appoint COM
mittee of three to draft suitable resolu-
tions regarding the death of Augustus w.
Cutler.
John T. Cox, representative to the
State Grange, submitted report advoca-
ting the free delivery of mails in rural
districts, and opposing reduction of
postage until this had been accomplished.
Mr.. Cox also said that he had no objec-
tion to the manufacture of oleomargarine,
but insisted that the laws respecting its
sale should be more rigidly enforced.
A Morris county farmer stirred up a
little breeze by offering a resolution favor
ing the repeal of the Township School
law. ]. B. Rogers wanted this resolution
considered by she Board as committee
of the whole, saying that otherwise it
might be smothered in committee. This
proposition was not agreed to, and the
resolution was referred to the Com mittee
on Resolutions.
At the afternoon session of the Board,
President Denise made his annual ad-
dress. He discussed farm life, and recon-
mended that farmers do business on a
cash basis. He also advocated the study
of agriculture in the public schools, and
recommended the. adoption of the text
book on ''First Principles of Agri-
culture"
Professor E. G. Voorhees,, of the New
Jersey Experiment Station, made tech-
nical address on "Fertilizers and Farm
Products" Frank H. Valentine, of the
Rpral New Yorker delivered an address
on, From the Farm to tho Market" He
said much of the blame for low prices
rested with the farmers themselves, be-
cause of their ignorant carelessness and
dishonesty in preparing their products for
the market. A number of resolutions
were presented and referred to the Com
mittee on Resolutions. to be reported later.
The State Board of Agriculturne at its
session on Thursday morning elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
President, D. D. Denise, Freehold; vice
president, E. B. Voor hees. New Bruins
Wick; secretary, franklin Dye, Trenton;
treasurer, William R. Lippincott, Fellow
ship; executive committee, Theodore F.
D. Baker, Bridgeton; Il. F. Bodine,
Lockstown; DR.. j. B. Ward, Newark.
The board defeated the resolution of
the Hunterdon County Board recon-
mending the abolition of the Boards of
Freeholders and substituting County
Commissions of three persons each.
Another resolution recommending
direct tag on bicycles was also defeated.