The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
The Agricultural Board and Board OF
Visitors In Joint Session-Enorts to
Greatly Develop the CoiIeee-De-
mand for Investigation Of Penitensi-
ary Matters-U Insurance
Agents.
Messenger Bureau.


The board Of agriculture had a brief
meeting today and adjourned to meet
at the Agricultural and Mechanical
college. The board of visitors of the
college met with il, and submitted re-
concentrations. The board of agricul-
ture gave hearing to two professors
deposed by the now defunct board of
trustees, the professors declining to
recognize the authority of the latter
board, exercised at the last moment of
its existence. The board Of agriculture
will seek to develop all the college de-
partments and not to build up the
mechanical and the technical at the
expense of the agricultural, which for
some years has been almost obScured.
The board decided to make the salary
of professor Of agriculture $4,000 and
to establish a full professorship of an
imal industry and veterinary science
at the same salary.
Governor and Mrs. Aycock went to
university commencement. Today was
alumni day and also class reunion day
as we'll as the day for the exercises Of
the senior class, which is a large one.
The Seaboard Air Line strikers haunt
the trains, day and night, watching for
men to take their places. The shops
here are small and secondary and the
is giving itself no trouble about them,
it seems.
There is a sharp demand for an in
veStigation of the late management Of
the penitentiary. This was discussed
by the new directorate yesterday.
Some Of the directors are anxious to
have it done at once. The retired ad-
ministration deceived the new one by
it's reports. 1t gave out that the peni-
Tow %I,0 y,;r 1;< of
the ledger and could not possibly need
the slightest state aid this year or next
year. Yet the new directors find that
the penitentiary is worse than merely
out of funds-that it is dead broke" +"
If there is an investigation there will
be lively developments. The peniten-
tiary has for six years been a CHASTITY
joke.
The book agents say that North Car
olina gets text books at prices lower
than in any other state; that the
prices are perfectly awful; that Gov
ernor Aycock and his board organized
a regular book auction; that North
Carolina gets out of it more than the
book companies. All the other book
| firms rejoice, however, that CHM & Co.
get not so much as one book, and say
CHM & Co, brought about the trouble.
The book companies have spent at least
$4,000 in the fight, as they employed
over fifty attorneys.
The insurance commissioner is after
the agents who have been soliciting for
Wayne Life Insurance Company, unli-
| cenSed in this state. An agent at Scot
/ land Neck was forced to mortgage his
property to refund premiums he had
collected and which the company de-
clined to refund. Another agent, nam
| ed Clark, whose home is at Charleston
escaped from custody. He worked at
Dunn. and Benson. Many persons in
| the state are representing, without Ii
cenSe, surety and bonding companies
All are liable for license and penalties
The weather and crop report for the
week ended last night issued today, is
gloomy one, yet little brighter than
last weeks report. The report says:
Cotton has been injured considerably
by low temperatures as we'll as by ex-
cessive moisture; much of it has a yel-
lowish color, indicating lack of vogor,
and there is considerable complaint of
it's dying; some fields will be replowed
| for corn. Progress in chopping cotton
and cleaning fields was more rapid dur
| ing the last four days: while the plants
are very small for the season the
stands are fair to good. Corn also has
suffered. chiefly from lack of proper
cultivation; it shows, however, more
| improvement than does cotton; much
corn was yellowed by the cool, damp
| weather, and has suffered from ravages
of cut and bud worms. The stand OF
corn is generally poor, except over linn
| tied sections where we'll cultivated
| Much corn will be planted in lowlands
| up to June 18th. Tobacco seems to be
| doing fairly well; in the north-central
portion much of the crop remains to be
| planted; plants are abundant and OF
| good size. Reports upon wheat are IA
| vorable; unfortunately it has taken
rust in some counties, but as the har-
vest is near it is thought the disease
will not spread rapidly enough to en-
| danger the prospect for an excellent
| yield"