The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-09
FARMERS BOARD
WINDS UP BUSINESS
And Adjourns to Meet June
Twelfth.
CPECIAI APPR0PRIATI0NS
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS
AND REPORTS OF DEPARTMENTS
CONSUMED SESSION.
SUPERINTENDENT FOR RED SPRINGS FARM
Ordered to be Employed. Report Of lmmigra-
ton Commissioner. Better Paris Green
Wanted. As to BIockading Fer
tiizers. Counsel Paid Off,


q three hours session yesterday morning
finished business and adjourned to meet
Tuesday, June II, at 4:S0 o'clock p. m.
Mr. R. H. Battle appeared before the
board and stated the status of the fer
tilizer rate cases, saying that the attor-
neys felt very hopeful that a decision ia
vorable to the board would be rendered.
The committee appointed to see the
public printers reported, and Mr.. Edwards
appeared before the board. He said that
it required four days to have the bulle-
tin set and that one page of the matter
was not sent until the 18th of February,
the day on which the bulletin was to
have been issued.
Mr.. Bruner said that the reason for
delay was satisfactory and withdrew his
criticism.
immigration Commissioner Thompson
reported that he had made several trips
to northern points, and that as a result
$1,000 acres of land in Burke county had
been sold to the New York and North
Carolina Sheep Raising Company, with
capital of half million dollars.
He said also that the notice of the
transaction in the press had attracted
the attention of a Canadian gentleman
who is now here looking after a suita-
BILE body of land.
He had likewise seen the editor of the
National Provisioner, one of the leading
German citizens of New York, who is
now endeavoring to organize company
to buy a large body of farm lands in
this State.
DR.. Hamberg had given his promise to
locate a colony of Firms in North Caro-
lima so soon as some land in Tennessee
had been settled.
Mr.. Thompson asked to be allowed to
transfer 5000 appropriation from the
rolling car to the printing account, since
literature in German is to be distributed
at the Paris Exposition.
Major Graham moved that this be al
lowed and the motion prevailed.
AS chairman of the Committee on I'm
migration, Major Graham moved that
$500 be set aside for travelling expenses
for the immigration Commissioner, and ii
was so ordered.
The Committee on Crop pests recon
mended that samples of Paris green be
collected for the purpose examination
as to their purity, and that $50 be ap-
propriated to purchase improved seeds
for the soil test farms.
The test farms committee recommend
ed that $500 be appropriated to employ
an overseer for the Red Springs farm
The recommendation was adopted.
Major Coffield said he thought the
board was going a little fast and was
likely to find itself embarrassed later
An appropriation had been made to send
committee to find out who owned phos-
plate beds and various other expenditures
ahad been ordered and with the reduced
tonnage tax there might ensue a scarcity
of funds.
Dr. Kilgore explained that it was the
business of the overseer, not only to
oversee the work of others, but to work
himself. 1t was also necessary to have
man with some idea of accuracy if the
work was to be of any value; it was
necessary to have a precise record kept
of all the fertilizers used, of the dates
of planting, &c. He had offered the
place at Tarboro to five graduates of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College, and
each had declined it and he had finally
been compelled to get man from Mis-
sssippi.
The report of the Fertilizer Committee
that $500 be appropriated to pay the
salary of a special analytical chemist for
months, was adopted.
Major Graham reported from the Com
mittee on Farmers Institutes that as no
Institutes could be held before the June
meeting, no recommendations would be
made.
DR.. Curtice came before the board and
called attention to the fact that the great
need of Eastern Carolina was more cat
tie, but that cattle can not be raised
proftably until the section is freed from
fever ticks, since the price of beef on
the wrong side of the line is one cent
pound less than on the side where
splenic fever does not prevail. He de-
clared that cattle can be raised more
cheaply in North Carolina than in the
West.
The election of successor to Mr..
Hart, of Edgecombe, deceased member of
the board, was postponed until the June
meeting in the absence of DR.. Capehart.
Mr.. J. Bryan Grimes said that his
statement of the day before as to block
aiding fertilizers had reference to last
season. not to this, and that his infor-
nation was from the fertilizer inspectors
of last year.
Mr.. Patterson said that so far as his
statement that there was doubt as to
the legality of the department was con-
cerned that he did not mean to say that
the departments right to tax was ques-
tionable, the United States Supreme court
having decided the question in favor of
the department. He had meant to say
that 1t was always the policy of him
self and board to avoid unnecessary liti-
cation, and that to bring suit for every
violation would keep the department in
constant litigation besides making the
relations of the department with the
fertilizer companies more or less I'M
pleasant.
The settlement of some accounts with
former State printers, Stewart Bros, was
referred to the Finance Committee with
instructions to examine and report.
Messrs. Battle & Mordecai presented a