The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-26
L, BANKS HOLT THE
MKT PRESIDENT
Elected by the Agricultural
Society Last Night.
COL, WILLIS L. MOORE
Chief of Weather Bureau Charms a
Representative Audience
Or. GEO. T. WlNsTON's ANNUAL ADDRESS
los. E. Pogue and Capt. c. B. benson Unanlm-
ously Reelected Secretary and Treas
urer Respectively. Regret at
Gen.Ccx's Resignation
Chief of Weather Bureau Charms a
Representative Audience
Or. GEO. T. WlNsTON'S ANNUAL ADDRESS

At a meeting of the North Carolina
State Agricultural Society in the Hall
| of Representatives last night after two
most mastery addresses by DR.. George
| T Winston, president Of the A. and M.
Ctc1lege and Col Willis l.. Moore,
chief of the Weather Bureau at Wash
ington, d. c., the following officers We're
elected for the ensuing year: President,
L. Banks Holt, of Alamance; Secretary
Jos. f. Pogue, of Raleigh; assistant
secretary and treasurer, c. B. benson,
of Raleigh.
Gen. w. r. Cox, president of the
Society, occupied the chair, and intro
duced DR.. Winston, the first speaker,
with a few appropriate remarks.
President Winston spoke strongly and
much to the point on the necessity of
the people of North Carolina learning
how to develop their own resources,
instead of begging outside capital to
come in and take control of the dormant
wealth that is in the State.
His subject was Wealth Factors
Needed in North Carolina" He
began by calling attention to
two remarkable facts. l. In
variety of natural wealth North Carolina
esurpasses all other States; 2. In amount
of accumulated wealth, per capita, it is
surpassed by all others.
His address was an analysis of the
industrial condition of the State, it's nat
ural resources, its labor and it's capital
He maintained that three instrumental
ties are needed to promote the wealth
and prosperity of the State:
l. Universal education to arouse the
ambition and intelligence of the people
and create a more efficient desire for
wealth and improvement
2. Industrial education 10 furnish skilled
labor and technical knowledge essen
tial to industrial enterprises.
3. Postal Savings Banks to encourage
economy and saving and thus. provide
necessary capital.
Agriculture he declared to be the basis
OF all great States; the source not only
of material prosperity but of manhood.
For the Improvement of agriculture in
North Carolina four things are needed:
l. A more general use of tools and
machinery.
q Better knowledge of agriculture.
g. Economy of labor and of living.
A. The building up of other industries
besides agriculture.
For all these things Industrial educa-
tion is essential.
He advocated the establishment of a
farm school in connection with the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College, where
all the work shall be done by the pupils,
who are to be up by daybreak and at
work by sunrise The school is to be
divided into two squads; one working in
the morning and studying afternoons. the
other working afternoons and studying
mornings; every pupil to receive board,
lodging, clothes and tuition in return for
his labor. Thus it is hoped to create a
lot CT we'll trained farmers to serve as
missionaries throughout the State. He
declared that the yield of the soil OF
North Carolina could be doubled in twen-
ty-five years and quadrupled in fifty, by
larger use of improved machinery, by
more Intelligent application of CONNER
cial fertilizers, by stock-raising and the
increased use of animal manure, by con-
slant culture of clovers and legumes, by
rotation of crops, by greater economy OF
labor, by better drainage and more thor
ough culture Of the soil.
His speech was a strong plea for IN
dustrial education and the substitution OF
intelligent and skilled labor for mere
muscle.
AS soon as the A. and M. College is pro-
yided with necessary dOrmitorles Pfesl-
dent Winston intends to start campaign
for industrial education, making speeches.
in every county in the State. AT pres
ent it would be folly to do this as there
is not room enough in the college for hail
the boys that desire to come. Applicants
are turned away cnstantly for lack OF
room, and the college is forced to adVer-
tise about once a fortnight that 1t can
receive no more students.
President Cox, made some very Mt
ting remarks upon the pressing need Oh
the people to take up and make inter
ligent use of the magnificent resources
at hand, and then introduced Col. Wills
J.. Moore, the Head Weather Man
Col Moore charmed his audience,
which included some of the most prom
inent men in the State, from the very
start. He is a man of most magnetlc
eprsonality, delightful ease of manner
and refreshingly off-hand and con-
versational style of expressing himself
together with a genuinely Hibernlan
gift of telling a good story.
He commenced by saying that ne
had brought the greetings of Secretary
Wilson, of the Department of Agricui-
ture, to the people of North Carolina
and that he had desired him to say
that his heart was with them in the
development of their magnificent natur-
al resources, and then added: But
since i have listened to the magnificent
address of DR.. Winston / have seen
that you have in your midst everything
you need If Secretary Wilson were
here, he would say: Don't look to me,
look over there to your own scientlflc
agriculturist. ?"
The weather Man then set his au-
dience to shaking with marriment over
several well told and extremely ludl-
crous anecdotes at his own expense,
incidents Of some of his trips through
the country.
He then spoke of a recent visit to the