The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-18
MODEL CANE STATION
WILL BE AT WAYCR0SS.
Com missioner stevens and His As
sistaDts Busy in Washington.
BY r. N. Larner.

BY r. N. Larner.
Washington. Feb. I7-Secretary Will
son oold Commissioner of Agriculture
Stevens of Georgia that he has def
nitely determined upon Waycross as
the place for the model cane syrup
station to be soon established in Geor-
-ia.
Mr.. Stevens and his assistants, Oil
Inspector Bryant and Entomologist
Scott, have spent almost all their time
ut the Department of Agriculture dur
ing the past two days. Tonight Mr..
Scott went to Lynchburg, Va, and to-
morrow night Messrs. Stevens and
Bryant will leave for Atlanta.
Commissioner Stevens has been in
frequent conferences with Secretary
Wilson, DR.. Wiley and the other heads
OF the bureaus under the Department
Of Agriculture. The model game syrup
station will be established IN Georgia
under the appropriation carried in the
pending agricultural appropriation bill.
The commissioner found that the of
fcials of the department are enthusi-
astic in their efforts to develop the
cane syrup industry in Georgia, and
other southern states, and are conf
dent il VIII bring valuable and i'm
pOrtant returns to producers. This
model station will be conducted en-
tirely at the government expense, UNI
der the direction of Secretary Wilson
and Chief Chemist Wiley. This station
viii have no relation to the experiment
station at Griffin, under entirely sep
arate management.
Another important matter discussed
by Mr.. Stevens with Secretary Wilson
was the extension of the cattle quar-
dnttne line so as to admit within the
line number of additional Georgia
counties. This quarantine line is
drawn against Southern states, or
rather such portions of them, as have
Texas fever among their cattle. Cattle
inside the quarantine line is much
more valuable than that outside, be-
cause the latter, on being shipped to any
market, has to undergo Is days quar-
antine.
Rabun. Union and Towns counties
have been put inside the line and it is
expected that as the result of this visit
the line will iii the near future be eX-
tended so as to include Fannin, Gilmer,
Pickens, White and Habersham coun-
ties.
Oil Inspector Bryant has been in
consultation with Chemist Wiley con-
corning oil inspection methods. Com
plant has been made in some parts of
GeOIBid against the Illuminating power
of the oils that have passed the state
inspection. After going over the mat
ter thoroughly, DIR. Wiley said that
Georgia is considerably ahead of al
most all other states in the matter of
oil inspection. The Georgia methods
are better and more efficacious in in
surfing safety than those in vogue even
in New York city. DR.. Wiley said
Georgia is four years ahead even of
the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Braynt is making Investigations
into the possibilities of securing bet
ter illumination, and to that end is
making study of the different wicks
and new methods of using OIL
Entomologist Smith has been con-
ferring with DR. Howard, the chief en-
tomologist, and has been witnessing
some interesting and important expert
ments being made here. His purpose
in going to Lynchburg is to confer with
DR.. Arfood, entomologist of Virginia,
who has recommended several young
men for the position of assistant en-
tomologist in Georgia, which is soon
to become vacant