The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-30
IT HAS NOT BEEN REMOVED
Frequent Changes Are Demoralizing
to the Work of Station.
APPROPRIATION OF $3.50 TO STATE FAIR
Reports of Various Departments of the College
Presented by President Winston Board
Visited the Crawford Farm Yes
terday Morning,
terday Morning.

terday Morning.
The reply of the Board of Agriculture
| to the resolution of the Board of Visitors
of the A. and NJ. College in regard to the
Experiment Station has been made public.
| 1t will be remembered that the Board of
Visitors in their resolution asked that
| the Experiment Station should be re-
turned to the college under the director
| ship CT the Professor of Agriculture in
stead of being located in the Department
of Agriculture in Raleigh under the di-
| rectorship of the State Chemist.
The Board of Agriculture, in their re-
| ply which is quite long document con
| tanning twelve typewriter pages, state
that they have carefully considered the
natter, and after giving history of the
North Carolina Experiment Station from
fits organization in 1877 they reproduce
| President Geo. T. Winston's letter of
resignation as director of the Station I'M
der date of June 4th, 1901, in which ne
| says he believes that his action will pro-
mote the efficiency both of the college
and of the Experiment Station and that
| it will enable him to devote himself with
more efficiency to the management of the
college, and will make it possible to
| carry on all agricultural experiment work
| in the State under one head and accord
| ing to one general plan. He suggested
| that Prof. B. W. Kilgore be elected as
| his successor.
The reply then says:
There was no suggestion at that time
that the Experiment Station was being
turned over to the Department OF Agricul-
| ture, nor do the present relations of the
two institutions justify the statment in
the resolution of the Board of Visitors
| that the station has been transferred from
the college to the Department OF Agri-
| culture, as the connection row of the
| station and college, instead of being more
remote, is as close, if not closer than
| it has ever been in the previous history
of the institutions, except possibly dur
ing the two years dictatorship of DR..
| Winston from 1899 TO 1901, and that
change was made not only at the sug-
gestion but on the recommendation of the
| head of the college" 1t is therefore i'm
| possible, says the Board, for the station
| to be returned, since it has not beer re-
moved. "The board regards the Expert
ment Station as a department of the col
lege, and the election of the present
director, when sitting as trustees of the
| college, made him an officer OF the col
lege, both of which relations are recOg
nized by the president and faculty in
this years college catalogue on pages.
| Z and 49,
| A letter from DR.. A. c. True, Director
of the Office of Experiment Stations of
| the United States Department OF Agricul-
ture, to Commissioner Patterson, is en-
bodied in the answer Here are a few
! extracts from this letter:
Every effort should be made to Sc
cure and maintain a permanent and con-
sistert policy. Evidently the work of
both the college and station have sui
fered severely from frequent changes in
officers and policy during the past few
years, and, it is to be hoped that the
| Period of change and uncertainty has
now reached its end. Having sep
| arated the offices of president
and director, and elected compe-
| tent director, the board should make him
| fully responsible for the manag ament of
the station and give him liberty OF ac-
| ton commensurate with his responsible
| ity."
1.-The station Should be made as strong
as possible with the funds available for
that purpose and the college should do
| likewise with its own funds. These should
be increased by the State as the needs
| of the work demands
The whole answer is summed up in
conclusion as follows:
"Q) The Experiment Station clearly
bears the same relation to the college
now that it has in the past; it has not
been removed and there is, therefore,
| nothing to be returned.
'(20 The Experiment Station has had
four directors in five years. The board
considers these frequent changes not only
unwise but demoralizing to the work of
| the station. This is shown by the lack
| of very much important work from the
station in this period of frequent changes
and interruption of work. Agricultural
experimental work, to be of val i, must
be carefully planned and conducted for a
number of years under continuous and
competent management"
YESTERDAYS SESSION.
Yesterday mornings session of the
Board at the college was taken
up with hearing the various re-
ports presented by President Win
ston, and afterward an calculation of
them by the members of the faculty. This
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