The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-08
GRATIFIED AT HIS SELECTION.
MAI. RYALs' FRIENDS CoNGRATU-
LATED BIN on REAPPoINTMENT.

Gov. Gamblers Action i'm Returning
the Major to His Old Position on
the Board of Directors of Expert
ment Station Has Been Pleasing to
Him and to His Old Associates
on the BOard-He Was n Member of
the First BOARD, Appointed by Gov.
GOrdOn-GOv. Atkinson Disapprov-
ed of Him Politically and Would
Not ReappOint HIm-MuJ. RyaIs'
Views on Crop Conditions.
The friends of Maj. G. M. Ryals were
pleased to read yesterday the announce
ment in the Morning News of his appoint
ment by Gov. Gambler to membership in
| the board of directors of the State Ex-
pertinent Station, a position that he held
when the station was first instituted, and
that he continued to hold for half dozen
years thereafter.
Maj. Ryals received during the day from
| the secretary of the Governor an official
notification of his appointment to the
| board. This had been forestalled some
time ago by the Governors assurance,
made to personal and political friends of
Maj. Ryals. and to his old colleagues on
the board, who were anxious that he
| should return to his old duties that the
appointment should be made at the ex-
piration of the term OF Director Evans
When the scheme for the organization
and establishment of the experiment sta
ton was first preached Maj. Ryals was
appointed by Gov. John B. Gordon one of
the board of directors, and participated in
the tour of the state, made by the board
for the purpose of selecting the most fit
and proper place for the establishment of
the station. He had as much as any one
else to do with the selection of Griffin.
This board of directors drew lots for the
long and short terms, and Maj. Ryals
drew one of the short terms When this
expired Gov. Northen was the chief ex-
ecutive of the state, and he reappointed
Maj. Ryals to the board of directors for
a regular term Of five years.
Along towards the end Of the term the
contest for Governor, between Hon w.
Y. Atkinson and Gen. Clement "A. Evans.
was in progress, and Maj. Ryals used his
voice and influence in advancing the po-
litical interests of the latter candidate.
Gen. Evans was beaten and had to retire
from the race, and when Gov. Atkinson
was appointed he retired Mai Ryals from
the board of directors and appointed Mr..
James H. Evans of Screven county, in
his stead. Mai. Ryals was not particu-
larly gratified at his removal on partisan
grounds and for this reason he is partic-
ularly gratifed at his present reappoint-
ment.
The next quarterly meeting of the board
of directors of the station will be held on
the farm on Jan. Is, and the newly reap
pointed director has received from his
associates on the board a number of fat
tering letters, expressive of the pleasure
they feel in looking forward to renewed
official relations with him.
Mai. Ryals returned a day or two ago
from a business visit to his peach or
chards in Worth county. and reports that
the chances for a good crop next season
are very bright. There are fruit buds in
abundance and the recent cold has done
more good than harm to the trees and to
| the prospects for a crop. 1t has retarded
the development of the buds and thus
prevented their opening just in time to be
| killed or seriously injured by the cold
that is almost sure to come next month.
When the buds are closed, cold weather,
ice and frost affect them but very little,
II at all; 1t is when they are about to
burst into bloom. that the disastrous eff
fects OF extreme cold follow it's coming.
In Southwest Georgia there has been
nothing approaching a full crop of
peaches, the cultivation Of which Is rapid
ing Industries OF that section of the state
for several years. The ravages of the
San Jose scale and other insect pests and
the extreme cold Of several of the recent
winters have combined to prevent the
trees from bearing their full burden of the
luscious fruit and the growers have suf
fered In purse and patience. This season
they all hope to retrieve their losses and
| confidently predict and expect a prosper
Gus and successful year. Optimistic opin-
ions as to the size and value OF the crop
| are everywhere heard,
For some reason also, the cold did no
particular damage to the crops of the
| truck farmers of Chatham county. Maj.
| Ryals was on his Worth county place
when the cold spell was in progress and
! said he expected when ne came back 10
| Savannah to find many of his crops very
| seriously damaged by the frost and cold.
| He was agreeably surprised to find that
| in this expectation he had been mistaken
| and that the damage done was so slight
! as to be little more than perceptibie.
! Some of the plants had been npped and
| a little blackened by the cold, but the
| damage was trihing and the warm wealth
| err that has followed the cold has served
| to repair it thoroughly