The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-03
RALEIGH NEWS LETTERS
Many Pests Complained Of by Far
mers-New Trial I'm Libel Suit Case.
Board of Agriculture Adjourns.
Raleigh, n. c., May g, 1904.
Bureau.

4 RafelSn, N. -, May 20, 1so4.
The Supreme court will adjourn
next week for the term. Not many
%Iopinions yet remain to be delivered.
The court grants a new trial In the
ease Of Col. Osborne. of-Greensboro.
against NJ. T. Leach, Of Raleigh. this
this case hat the London libel law is
constitutional. but that il only pro-
lvides for a relief from punitive dam
tages upon publication of the retrac-
ton, and that actual damages can be
recovered In spite Of the retraction.
The state authorizes the Maxton
Sash and Door Company to increase
$780, 600.
To-day the board Of agriculture fin
ished its work. for this session and ad-
tjourned. It fixed the budget of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
OF which it is the board of trustees.
lat $56,953. The cards this morning
visited, In company with Professor
of Agriculture Burkett the farm at
the college, of which 25 acres are in
cultivation. This afternoon the board
took UP the matter of the new agricul-
ltural building at the college, three
architects being present and two sub
hitting plans.
| In al interview with State Ento-
mologist Franklin Sherman, he says
that since the yea began no less than
AZ different species of insects nave
been complained of as pests by far
merS, etc, mostly scale, which is re-
ported on 80 new premises. Scale is
now on fruit trees in At counties.
Where the farmers are fighting it it is
kept down. There must be a fight for
all the fruit hat is hereafter raised in
North Carolina. A new bug has come
in from Robson county, a little larger
than the obacco flea beetle and Of the
same type, and will be sent to Wash
ington for Identification, as it is not
known here. Several OF the large
Irish potato growers are spraying
their farms. using large tanks for this
purpose. This yea all kinds of plant
lice are very abundant, especially on
peach trees, more in fact than in all
previous years put together. Soap
and water and a kerosene emulsion
will exterminate these.
State Poulterer Jeffreys says he has
now at the poultry farm, adjoining
the state fair grounds, 700 chickens,
young and old. He lost some early
chickens by the cold weather. He is
keeping the finest ones and will make
extensive leeullS experiments HI lnc
autumn. Last winter he carried 200
chickens, and hex winter will carry
twice hat number. The others will
be sold in the state as breeders.
State Superintendent Joyner has re-
turned from the commencement of
the State Normal and Industrial Col
|lege at Greensboro. There were $50
students, but next term there will be
at least 500, the latter being the num-
Der before the fire. The new dormi-
tory will provide Accommodations for
the same number, as the one which
was burned. The trustees had not
the means to build larger dormitories,
but the college could easily have 1000
if it had the room for them.
The new dormitory is going up rap
idly and will be much better adapted
to it's uses than the one which was
burned. superintendent Joyner says
Governor Aycock's address before the
students was a great one and that he
reached high-water mark.
Judge Purnel this morning began
the hearing of the Atlantic n North
Carolina railway receivership matter.
said before taking it up that he
would dispose of it to-day.