The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24

turn to the farm with larger views and
who will seek to make the farm more
profitable. Therefore, a dollar spent in
preparing young farmers for better work
on the farm is worth infinitely more than
a dollar spent for information to farmers
who have already gone to farming. Very
few farmers, who have not had some in
struction at a farming college or been
trained under father who understands
agriculture will learn much after they
become men. The time to learn is in the
youth, The place to most wisely spend
money for the present and future devel-
opment of agriculture is in the A. and
NJ College.
In South Carolina something like fifty
thousand dollars a year fertilizer taxes
goes to Clemson College, which is South
Carolina's A. and M. College. We would
rot advise such an expenditure in North
Carolina because the Department of Ag-
rculture must do other things besides
educating the boys We would not inn
pair the Agricultural Department in
which there must be the analysis of fer
tilizers and the protection of the State
from food adulteration, nor would we
withdraw the money spent for the veter-
mary department, or the entomologist,
or proper farm tests in different sections
of the State. These are all important
and they will cost money. But much
more money ought to be used for the
training of farmers boys than now goes
to that purpose. We lock to see in the
future such close union between the col
lege and the department as that one can
hardly tell where the college begins and
the department ends, or vice versa 1t
cannot be done now, it should not be
done now, but gradually the Agricultur-
al Department ought to be transferred to
the college and they ought to be run as
one harmonious whole letting one lose
itself in the other, letting the college
money educate the boys and sending the
best boys out to assist the farmers in field
tests, in crop tests, in anything that
would advance agriculture. Toward this
ultimate end the Board of Agriculture
should be ever tending
During the past few years the Depart
ment has undertaken the establishment
of test farms in different parts Of the
State. There is one in Edgecombe coun-
ty, one in Robson county, one in Iredell
county. Others are suggested. The value
of crop and field tests should not be I'M
derestimated, but. the value of these test
farms is necessarily limited to a small
number OF farmers and if enough of these
test farms should be established to bring
them in reach of all the farmers of the
State, the cost would be so great as to
the department. A halt should be called
in establishing these test farms. Other
wise there will never be any money to
use in helping the A. and M. College in
- ~ 'ins 'ne La iliei poSs. we may
- WINS apou' IL po' our judgment Is
'n'' 'te ''"'e oHsnt not 70 ouy any test
iarhiS at all ought not TO conduct any
test farms except in connection with the
A. and M. College, but that it ought to
make SOIL and crop test in different
parts Oh the state whenever occasion
call Tor It, and that it would be cheaper
and better that these tests should be
made Where there Is call for it on the
lahd OF DINERS than that the State should
BUY large farms and conduct these farms
upon large seal
The Board OF Ag aulture started out
we'll when the A. and 4. College was
put in its control. with the small amount
of money could Command ii estab-
lished scholarshtEs and set aside Two
thousand dollars 10 hclr agrlagIturaE stu
dents by paying theI ar laH7s. This X
a great work and a work cor.u. bones
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