The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-06
GREATER COLLEGE
FOR THE FARMERS
The Board Provides For the
Very Best Professors.
cal ARIES MA0E &c. 600
SALARIES MADE $500
President Winston Resigns as Director
Experiment Station.
DR.. B. W. KlLGORE SUCCEEDS HIM
To Help Student Workmen $1,000 is Voted
and 100 Agricultural Scholarship Are
Established. A Grand Future
For the A. & NJ.

The Board of Agriculture did great
work for the A. and NJ College at its
meetings yesterday afternoon and last
night Work that will bring the college
up to a high plane and will make it the
equal, if not the superior, of any other
Agricultural college.
The value of the action of the Board
may best be summed up in the words of
President Winston. who said to that body
last night in the course of his remarks
of thanks to them for what they had
done for the A. and M. College.
Gentlemen of the Board: feel as If
you had taken the college into your arms
and carried it to the mountain tops"
At the session yesterday afternoon the
following was done:
Three hundred dollars was voted as
fund to be used for clearing college lands
to be used as an experiment farm.
A committee was appointed, consisting
Of Commissioner Patterson, Messrs E. L.
Daughtridge, W. A. Graham, Howard
Browning and President Winston to Sc
lect a Professor of Animal Industry and
Veterinary Science and a Professor of
Biology.
The salary of the Professor of Agricul-
ture was increased from 81 800 to $4,000.
The salary of the Professor of Animal
Industry and of Veterinary Science was
made 50, 500.
The position of Instructor in Biology
and Scientific Agriculture was created.
and the salary was placed at 81, 200.
The regular salary of full professors in
the A. and NJ. College has heretofore been
81 $780, but in the cases named it was in
creased to So, $780, so that the best men in
the country in those departments might
be secured. In this matter the Board
has gone a bowshot ahead OF the highest
expectations of the friends of the col
lege and are determined on having the
very best.
At the night session President Winston
spoke He said that in order to devote
his whole time to the management OF the
college he requested the Board of Agrf-
culture to relieve him of the duties or
Director of the Experiment Station, and
to appoint in his stead as Director, DR..
3. w. Kilgore, who already had charge OF
the experiment work conducted by the
State Board of Agriculture.
This arrangement will secure more
efficient management of the college under
President Winston, and will not only
allow him to devote all his time and en-
orgies to that work, but will also secure
3 more satisfactory conduct of the Agri-
cultural experiment work in North
Carolina by having it all under one head
and according to one plan
Both of President Winston's requests
were granted by the Board and DIR. Kill
gore is now the Director of the Expert
ment Station.
In order to promote the study of Agri-
culture in the college and to attract stu
dents to the agricultural courses the
Board established 120 Agricultural Schol-
arships, and appropriated $4,000 to pay
agricultural students for labor.
The students in college last year earn
ed 81, 4S0. The $4,000 now voted, in ad-
dition will bring the sum up to nearly
S. 900 available annually for the employ
ment of student workmen and this will
help many poor boy to get an education.
The Board will continue its work to-
daY