The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-22
WORK OF THE SESSION
APPROPRIATION TO A. & M. coll
LEGE INCREASED FROM $4,000
TO $4,000.
NEW FERTILIZER REGULATION PASSED
In Which Provision is Made as TO Lettering An
alyses &c--Most of the Work Done
and Some Members Left
Last Night.


day morning and again at 1870 in the af-
ternoon. They were lot of very tired
men and they communicated the ailment.
j. c. Logan Harris opened up the pro-
ceedings at the afternoon meeting by
saying that it was the business of the
Board to inspect and it should inspect.
He said that in order to do this thor
oughly it was necessary that several adj
ditional inspectors of fertilizers and
things be put in the field and three new
chemists be added to the analyzers of
soils, waters, etc. In order to do this he
moved that the appropriation of Sl0,ooO
to the A. and Nj. College, in considera-
ton OF the work done In the experiment
station. made at a former meeting of the
Board. be increased to $1,000 He de-
clared that this would insure the work
of inspection and analysis being done
promptly and thoroughly. In order that
the farmers might be duly apprized of
this work in time to sow their fall oats.
Mr. Harris said the Agricultural Bull
lentin might be issued more frequently,
once a week if necessary. DIR. Ramsey
pricked up his ears at this suggestion.
The resolution carrying an increase of
appropriation precipitated a discussion
in which number of the members par
tcipated. One speaker suggested that
instead of giving all the money to the
purposes of analysis and inspection some
be given to improving the table service
of the college concerning which there
had been some complaint. The food
was abundant but not very well pre-
ha IA
the patronage of the college.
Prof. Withers was called upon for
statistics as to the number of analyses
made. and stated that about 400 had
been made this year and 600 during the
past twelve months.
J. w. Bailey advocated saving the
money at the disposal of the Board and
buying plant for the Board of Agri-
culture apart from the Agricultural and
Mechanical College.
Mr.. Harris stated that the present APP
preparation fell short of the needs of the
station about $500 year.
Mr.. Graham hoped that the Board
would see its way to appropriate out of
the funds at it's disposal $1,000 to build
an auditorium at the college.
The resolution was finally amended to
read $4,000 instead of $780, and in
that form was passed, Mr. Harris and
one other member voting AYE" and no.
body voting no" The members seemed
somewhat Indifferent as to whether the
appropriation was one thing or the
other.
A resolution was offered to pay $3.50
TO each of the firms that represented the
Board in the fertilizer cases. The resolu-
ton was about to pass when Mr.. Aycock
rose and opposed it, saying that the at
torneys should be requested to send in
their bills before any more money was
paid to them. The resolution was with
drawn. Other motions We're made and
withdrawn and finally the finance COM
mittee was ordered to confer with the
attorneys and report to the Board this
morning.
A resolution providing that such adj
ditional inspectors as in the judgment of
the commissioner of agriculture and the
chairman of the executive committee of
the Board might be necessary. should be
employed at salary of seventy
FIVE dollars per Onth and eX-
penses. was passed. On this resolution
Mr.. Brady, of Gates. made the hit of
the session in his description of the
dwellers along the coast. Mr.. Brady said
that thousands of tons of fertilizer were
brought to the trucking farms by boats
and sold without either tax or analysis.
He declared that the people down there
had never seen four-wheeled vehicle,
and recommended that an inspector DE
detailed for the work who knew how
to run a sail boat.
The Board went into executive session
and adjourned to meet this morning.
At the session yesterday morning lit
tie was done beyond passing the new
fertilizer regulation which follows:
That from and after December LIST,
1898, the following shall be in effect:
Every bag, barrel or other package of
fertilizers or commercial manures offered
for sale or delivered after sale in this
State shall have thereon a plainly print
ed or written label or stamp which shall
truly set forth the name. location and
trade mark of the manufactures which
shall be registered with the department,
also the chemical composition of the con
tents of such package and the real per-
centage of any of the following ingredi-
ents asserted to be present, to wit: Sol
uble and reverted or available phosphoric
acid. pure potash (K2O), ammonia or its
equivalent in nitrogen, and near the
centre of every such bag, barrel or other
package there shall be plainly printed,
labeled or stamped, as brand, in Ro-
man letters the letters to be not less
than two inches in height, giving the
grade of each such package, according to
the following schedule, that is to say,
each package to be labeled: High
Grade STANDARD" and Low Grade"
according to the following classificatons:
High Grade-The following analysis.
guaranteed by manufacturer to be
branded High Grade; Dissolved bone or
acid phosphate. without potash, guaran-
teed thirteen per cent. or over available
phosphoric acid; acid phosphate, contain
ing potash, guaranteed to contain twelve
per cent or over. of available phosphoric
acid, with one per cent of potash; am
meniated goods, guaranteed to contain
eight per cent or over Of available phos-
phoric acid, two and three-quarter per
cent or over of ammonia and one and q
half per cent or over of potash.
Standard-The following analysis,