The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-11

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science, who shall also serve as State
veterinarian, at a salary of 81, 800.
4. To establish an instructionship
of biology at a salary of $1,000.
5. To appoint Prof. W. F. Massey
State lecturer and institute conduc-
tor, editor of popular bulletins and
general correspondent in agriculture
and horticulture, with general super
vision of the horticultural depart
ment of the college and station, at a
salary of $1,000.
6. The establishment of the posi-
ton of field botanist to do field and
Office work for the Agricultural De-
partment in connection with crops,
medicinal plants and dye-stuff plants !;
also to give instruction in the col
lege.
Z. That a portion of the college
land, one hundred ere if possible,
be selected and cleared for an expert
ment farm and so employed.
The first of these recommendations
everyone supposed would, to use a
slang phrase, ego through as slick as
grease" But it did not. The Board
felt that in an agricultural State like
North Carolina the professorship Of
agriculture in her Agricultural and
Mechanical College should be a posi-
tlon of more than usual dignity that
the salary should be such as to COM
mand the services of some man who
in ability as an agricultural educa-
tor should rank second to no man in
the country. And SO it was moved
that the first recommendation be
amended by making the salary Of the
professor of agriculture 81, 500-the
highest in the faculty and the
motion was adopted. The second
recommendation was then adopted
without amendment. In regard to
the third, it was decided that the
Board of Agriculture would secure a
thoroughly competent State Neterin-
arian, who should also act as pro
fessOr of animal industry and veter
mary science in the College, and that
his salary should be 50, 500. Next,
the fourth recommendation was
promptly adopted the fifth was as
promptly sat upon, as was also the
sixth. Tho seventh was more for
tunate and will be put into effect
1t was, furthermore, decided that the
Entomologist of the Department of
Agriculture should teach entomology
at the college when not otherwise
employed.
The resignation of DR.. Winston s
DIRECTOR OF THE EXPERIMENT STATION,
to take affect 3Oth inst, was accepted
and, upon DR.. Winston's suggestion,
DR.. B w. Kilgore was named as his
successor. We congratulate the
Station upon this selection, which,
we are sure, is the best that could
could have made.
Important as were the actions to
which we have just referred, they
appear much dwarfed in comparison
with the far reaching Importance
of the following
RESOLUTION OFFERED BY MR.. CANNON,
and unanimously adopted
For the purpose of increasing the
interest of young men attending the
North Carolina College Of Agricul-
and Mechanic Arts in the
science of agriculture, and to aid
them in taking the college course in
agriculture, that $4,000 be appropr1-
ated for the purpose of paying for
the object being to enable
young men to take advantage of the
course in agriculture offered by the
College and it is further directed
shat IN providing this sum, it is to
be used exclusively for students who
to make agricultural pursuits
a life WORK. That an equal number
of scholarships to those now exist
ing in the College C12O be estab,
lished for the exclusive use of stu
dents in Agriculture and that the
faculty of the College be instructed
to so arrange the studies of agricul-
tural students as to give them time
for field work.
Fhis was really the browning &c.
ton of the Board. 1t is the death
knell, 50 far as North Carolina is
concerned, Of the oft-repeated state
ment that the boy who expects to
become d plain farmer cannot afford