The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-09
SPEAKS FOR ECONOMY
State Board of Agriculture for
CurtaiIing Expenses.
Six Months Expenses Cut to S3l,ll 4 and State
ment That Work has Been too Broad
for Department Income.

whom the reports Oh Objects we're It.
ferred gave their findings in the case
TO the board.
The sessions of the board are not pub
lie. and the reports given out to the press
come through the secretary of the board.
From the memoranda furnished by him
yesterday the following report IS made.
The most striking feature OF the re-
port is the fact that the board declares
for a policy of rctrenchment, and says
that work has been attempted on too
broad a scale, i'll view OF the revenue
which comes to it, and that there must be
a curtailmcnt.
When tho board resumed it's session
yesterday Mr.. j. c. Ellington exhibited
some fire extinguishers. The matter of
the purchase of these was referred to ii
committee.
Chairman Coffield, of the Finance com
mjttcc, made q report for the commit
tee. He reported the books in excel
lent condition. The committee reported
that for three years past the work IN
Gcrtaken by the Department has been on
too broad a scale for the income, ana
that while all work undertaken was I'M
portant and of value to the State, 1t
seemed to be beyond the ability Of the
hoard to keep these up. The budget, as
adopted. is a little less than that submit
ted, being $3,111 for the next six months,
including all expenses. The last budget
was S4.70O, but this included the expenses
OF the State exhibit at the Charleston
Exposition.
In the wav of retrenchment the Finance
committee recommended that the topo-
graphical work now going on in ceniunc-
81 r.;,, Ctntor CnInrnI1Gnf ha
discontinued. For several years the work
will be in mapping, and until it is time
again for field work they think a halt
should be called. The budget, it was
stated, had been cut down to the lowest
figure.
Major Graham's motion to group the
various fertilizers by names of manu-
facturcrs in place of by analyses was
agreed to. as was a resolution in line
with the request of the commissioners Of
the cotton States. whichfiXes the mini
mum figure for STANDARD Fertilizer at s
per cent phosphoric acid, , per cent am
monia and ? Tnr cent potash, the formula
being So. while for high grade the
minimum fixed was 1O-2-2. This Will be
recommended to the Legislature.
Several minor changes We're suggested
by Commissioner Patterson in the Fer
tilizcr law which will tend to simplify
and amplify it without changing its sense.
These the board agreed 20. The question
Of asking Legislature permission to
strike the word <|Monthly" from the title
Of the publication Monthly Bulletin" SO
that it might be issued as thought needed
by the board was also discussed.
The Test Farm committed reported and
recommended tha payment in the spring
nr 81 41Q i1Ia on tho 1UccOInha farm and
$4,000 on the Iredell farm. This was
agreed to.
The QuaraAine committee reported
through Mr.. \. Cannon that the State
Veterinarian be instructed to solicit from
the National Secretary Of Agriculture a
renewal Of arrangements by which citi-
zens of Henderson county and Sa1uda
township, Polk county. we're granted per
mits to cross the Federal Quarantine Lines
in going 20 and coming from the town
of Saluda IN social and commercial. III
tercourse.
The order 10 more ~effectually en-
force the regulations concerning the i'm
lortation of live stock into the State
The committee recommended that the
Legislature be requested to enact a law
imposing a fine Of $500 on persons and
transportation companies bringing in live
stock without the health certificate de-
handed by the board.
The regulation for the importation
during the open season, November /. to
January 81. provides that no cattle shall
he brought into any portion of North
Carolina exempt from the Federal Quar-
"ntine Law, nor into the counties of
swain, Wilkes. Caldwell, Burke and Nc
Dowell from any point below the Federal
{ 10 10 ~ ina 7 I'M 1np r, I..1 v%N--~-
and Union counties, Georgia. These regu-
lations are not to apply TO Interstate
traffic transacted according to Federal
regulations, or to unaffected cattle ex-
clnptcd by special permit Of Che United
states Secretary Of Agriculture.
The recommendation provides furth-
er that from December i, 1902, to jan
uary 81, 1903, cattle free of infection may
he shipped or driven from Surry, Wilkes.
Caldwell, Burke ard Mcdowell counties
into that portion Of North Carolina above
the Federal Quarantine Line. The board
1urtber recommended the Legislature to
repeal chapter 5i2, Laws Of 1899, known
as The "Fields Law"
The final recommendation of the COM
mittee is that the Legislators be re-
Gucstcd TO enact d Jaw making the
cXpcns" Of caring for live stock off he
promises of the owners a line on the live
stock thus cared for.
In the afternoon the board discussed
various routine matters, agreeing among
other things, TO allow the directors of
the Experiment Station TO engage a
poultryman.
At night the board discussed various
features OF reports mado and dismissed.
other matters for the bctterment of the
department.
From q source outside of the intor-
nation given out it is said that the board
has agreed to have an assistant State
chemist, in order 10 tighten the work
now done 3y the State chemist.
Cfrapay purnirn