The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-14

found that more than 200 had positions
lof trust and profit ia that part of tins
great country. One Of the wisest o!
Americans has said that every rue
american ought first Of all TO see nis
own country, and then he would be IN
shape TO go abroad.
A charter is granted the Griffith
Manufacturing Company al Griffin,
Pitt county, to manufacture buggiss,
wagons. farming implements, lumber
Ietc-, and TO gin cotton, capital stock
ls25, 900.
In an interview with Clerk Wilson
pr the Secretary of States department,
who has charge OF corporation
tiers, he said that there was quite a
|notable increase in the number Of cor
lporatlons chartered this year as COM
pared with last year. The month OF
June showed the greatest number OF
charters ever granted, this reaching ~
For n thing the corporations which
procure charters in that month os-
capped paying taxes for that ear, and
hence OF course some corporations
mold over until June. It is observable
lthat the issue Of charters is very larS--
lly confined to a few counties. Some
counties, il seems, have few or no cor
Iporations within their borders. How
lever, there is a spreading u in This
line, as manufacturing industries re
constantly offending i n North Carolina.
Mention was recently made of he
lfact that the assistant to Professor
Franklin Sherman, the State entomoio-
Igist, Mr.. Bentley, had resigned TO 60
Ifn tho Sfoto CrinuItrra aallooa nf
Tennessee. Russell Woglum, of IthiCa
IN. Y, has been appointed TO fill he
Vacancy. Professor Sherman is kept
busy during al the year and has hao
Ito answer a wide range of inquiries a.
well as make great many tours Of in
lSpectiOn.
So far this year nothing has been
done in the intended very compiate
Survey of the State swamp lands, ttlS
being because Of the hot weather u
1.-THE luXuriant underground and vege-
Itation. Work is to begin later uncer
1.-THE direction of w. B.. Rodman, who
thas charge Of such lands for the State
Board of Education. The survey VIII
reveal for the first time the area and
lexact character of suah lands, much
loeing now an unknOwn quantity and
tquality.
| On the 18th inst, two parties Of in
~Istitute conductors will begin the sum
liner institutions for farmers, one patty
under the direction of State HOrtical-
Iturist Hume beginning at P~ittsboro,
land the other, under direction of State
Veterinarian Butler at Oxford Ihv
institute work is to be OB a far more
Extensive plan this year than ever BE-
lfore, and the instructors will be num-
Ierous and talented. In the party,
HEADED by Professor Hume, will ne
Professor C. M. Conner, superintendent;
lof the Farmers institute of the State
lof Florida; J. s. Jeffreys, State pou'-
|Lryman. ]. C. Kendall, dairyman at tla
Ia. & NJ College here; Assistant Vet
D. H. Roberts; Professor Of
agriculture Charles w. Burkett; Pro
lessor Benton, of the United States De-
lpartment of Agriculture, who will talk
labout the grasses, and Secretary Thorn
Iat D.. Parker, of the North Carolina
Farmers Alliance. In the party head
led. by Professor TAFT Butler will be
IC. K. MeQuarrie, also Of Flor7da, and
la very accomplished man; R. w. SccJt.
lof AlamaEce, one of the best farmers
lin: North Carolina; DR.. w. j.. Mcl-en-
Idom, Of Anderson county, who will talk
soil improvements; Secretary l..
IB. Parker, w. A. Orion, of United
Department of Agriculture,
WHOSE theme will be cotton n its
diseases; F. T. Meachan, s~uperintend-
lent of the Iredell test farm: W.. A. Pc
tree, Of King, Stokes county,. vino Will
talk about tobacco culture. @
DR.. Tait Butler next Thursday will
talk t1r the Farm ars' Allianoeeof Samp-
son. county at Salemberg, ON Uhe lie
Icessi1v for more live stock OH North
ICarolinfa farms.