The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-02
VOTE NINE THOUSAND
State to Have Fine Exhibit at
Charleston Exposition.
Stale Fair Gets $1,000 Office Of Assistant
Commissioner Of Agriculture
Abolished.

The first business the Board of Agricul-
ture did yesterday morning was to vote
81 500 to the State Fair, this being done
on motion of Mr..C N. Allen. though Mr..
j. f. Ray tried to make it $4,000
Prof ]. A. Holmes. State Geologist,
ment to the Board. He told of the work
done in surveying and examining the bot
toms of Roanoke River and other streams
in Eastern Carolina, with a view to re-
claiming them for cultivation. He thinks
these bottoms. which are the richest
lands in the State, can be reclaimed, and
set forth several proposed methods. This
work will require a large expenditure,
and the land owners are hardly able to
do the work themselves, though they
might in cooperation with company re-
Gently formed in Boston. Nowhere do
these lands range more than four miles
from the rivers. The most feasible
method is probable the reclamation OF the
lands by State aid The Boston COM
pany has been deferred by lack OF an ac-
curate map Of the lands.
Messrs Joseph E. Pogue, secretary;
G.. b. benson, treasurer, next appeared
before the Board and thanked it for the
interest shown in the State Fair and for
the appropriation of 81 500.
The matter of making a State exhibit
at the Charleston exposition came up
After full expression of opinion mo-
ton prevailed to appropriate $4,000, or so
much as may be necessary, for an ex-
-
manufactures in Charleston.
DR.. j. B. Coffield offered the report OF
the Finance Committee. The committee
finds the books and accounts all in ex-
celIent condition, and accurately kept.
The board has to it's credit in the State
treasury $24, 600. The estimated income
for the remainder of the fiscal year is
50 ,00O. This constitutes the available
funds. He presented the budget, which
appropriates for all the various causes
under control of the board about $4,000.
On motion. the office of Assistant Com
missioner of Agriculture in Charge of I'm
migration, was abolished and the duties
imposed upon the commissioner.
The basic maps of the soil survey by
the United States Government in coop
Grafton with the State were discussed.
when the Legislature was in session,
promptness being necessary. The Gov
ernor, Commissioner, Chemist and one or
two members of the board entered into
the agreement to cooperate with the
government in making these maps, which
when completed will be the real topo-
graphical maps of the State. letter
from the Governor was read in this con-
nection The board endorsed the arrange
ment, and appropriated $500 to carry on
this important work.
Hon j. G. Hemphill, of Charleston, S.
c., editor of the News and Courier and
Director of Publicity and Promotion, was
invited to a seat with the board and for
an hour spoke of the arrangements for the
exposition, and the great advantages that
would accrue to North Carolina from
proper representation. He was highly
gratined at the generous appropriation
made by the board, and said South Caro-
lima would extend the warmest welcome
to her sister State.
Kr. Kilgore, by request, made COM
plete detailed statement of the work done
in pure food tests in this State.
At the afternoon session the Board au-
thorized the Commissioner and the State
Chemist to attend the meeting OF the
Commissioners of Agriculture of the cot
ton States to be hold at Little Rock, Ar
kansas, in August.
Commissioner Patterson, Messrs.
Daughtridge and Allen were appointed
committee to cooperate with the State
Fair authorities in the distribution of
premiums made by the Board of Agricul
ture as provided in the appropriation.
The duties of the Finance and Of the
Executive Committee were next defined by
the Beard.
The commissioners was authorized to
secure statistics of fish, fisheries, oyster
and trucking industries Of the East.
Messrs. Cunningham, McCullam and
Cannon were appointed a committee to
revise the salary list of the departments
under the charge of the board
Today the board will investigate the
condition of the A. and NJ. College and
will spend the day there acquainting
themselves with its conduct SO as to be
able to act intelligently on the recon-
mendations of the Board of Visitors.
The Board of Agriculture is now hold
ing it's sessions without allowing the
public to be present This will accent
for the similarity of the reports appear
ing in the varios newspapers to whom
information is furnished by the secretary
Of the Board. The board took this step
because of the publication of colloquy
which took place in the board the first
Of the week and which was published IN
the Morning Post. Not liking this the
board resolved upon private sessions,
with reporters barred.