The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-14


| 1901 . 49,. .339 Sal tons.
| 1902 =. =. =. T.. e. =. =. $780, 714.75 tons.
Showing an increase of sales during the
| last six years of oxer so per cent.
The following is the financial report OF
| the Department.:
The balance in the treasury at the be
| ginning of the fiscal year ending NoVcm-
Der 30. 1901, was 81. SO; Receipts for the
| fiscal year ending November 30 1901
were Sc, 1888 "a; the receipts for the fiscal
| year ending November 30, 1902, We're
| $66, 1927, balance in the treasury at the
| close Of the fiscal year ending November
| 80, 1902, was $30126.
/ The tax receipts for the past year in
| cluda $3,05866 as tax on cotton seed
meal which does not appear in the re-
| ceipts of any previous years.
| Following table showing the number of
| North Carolina fertilizer factories alb
| sorbed by the Virginia Carolina Chemi-
| cal Company-and a table showing the
! great number of oil mills of North Caro-
| lima that have been absorbed by the
| Southern Cotton Oil Company, the re-
| port says:
''The price of cotton-seed meal is
| higher than it had ever been until some
| three years ago, but very little higher
| than two years ago. Other ammoniates
! have for the most part kept like pace
| The same may be said of the phosphates;
| while the prices OF potash salts cOntroll-
| ed by a foreign syndicate are slightly
| lower"
| LAS partial remedy for the trust evils
| the Department has always advised the
use of cow peas and other leguminous
crops to supplant as far as possible the
high-prced ammbniates, and, WhereNprac-
| ticable the purchase and home mixing
of other ingredients. by formulas com
posed by the State Chemist, to save the
profits made by the factories on the mix
ed products"
This reference is made to pure food
| legislation:
q hope the legislature Will, in its wis
| dom, provide more stringent regulation
for the sale of food products of all kinds,
both for man and for beasts"
DISEASE AMONG DOMESTIC AMI
MAILS.
| Greater money loss from disease occur
/ among cattle than in any other species Of
! domestic animals. 1t has been ascertain
| cd beyond question that the cattle tick
is the prime cause of nearly all the losses.
IN conjunction with the United States
| Department of Agriculture, exempted
| districts and quarantine lines have been
| established, the purpose being tWofold-
| to protect the cattle from contagion in
| those districts exempt from the tick
| plague, and to extend gradually the eX
enpted districts, until the whole State
| shall become free
In connection with the subject of stock
raising. the report says:
| 1T is gratifying to note an increasing
| interest in the State in the production of
| cattle and other stock, for it still re
| mains true that every system of per-
| manently successful agriculture must
| include in it's economy the rearing of
| farm animals l wish to call your at
tention especially to the discussion of
| this subject in the report of DR.. Butler
the State Veterinarian, and Dr. Kilgore,
| the Director Of the Experiment Station,
| through whose efforts two carloads of
| full blood Aberdeen Argue cattle have
| been introduced into the State, with in
| creasing demand for more. Our Eastern
| people have not fully realized the SPLEEN
| did opportunities they possess of rearing
| and feeding cattle for market. No sec
| tion of the State can fatten beef or, l
may add. produce pork so cheaply. This
| is my conviction after several years of
| close observation of all the conditions.
| 1t is the fixed policy of this Department
| to encourage the raising of more cattle,
| and of higher grade. There is room for
| it, need of it, and rich reward will fol-
| low
| Appended to the report of Commission
! er Patterson are the reports of Mr.. B.
J w. kilgore, the State Chemist. This re-
| port contains some interesting statistics
| on analytical work, Pure Food, Soil Sur
vey Black Rot Experiments Farmers
| Institute Work: the report of Entomo-
| logist Franklin Sherman, Jr., State Vet
| erinarian DR.. Tate Butler. Mr.. Gerald
| Mccarthy, the Botanist and Entomol-
| ogist, and the Curator of the Museum
| Mr. II. II. Brimley.
All of these reports contain valuable
| data. They present in an interesting
manner the invaluable work which is be
| ing done by the Agricultural Depart
ment.
The severe coughing wheeling and