The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-05
NEW BUILDING At THE A. & NJ.
The PuIIen Agricultural Building
Dedicated.
Addresses on Behalf Of the <Tniycrsity.
Wake Forest. the Schools. tie Farm
ers. the Press. etc.-Edifor Poe
Speaks on the "Old Agriculture and
the New"
Especial to The Messenger.)


Raleigh, September 1.-Three hun
dred persons, including Governor
Glenn, other state officials, judges, and
many prominent e among them
Julian S. Carr, attended the dedication
OF the new $4,000 Pullen agricultural
building at the Agricultural and Me
chanical college here. The programme
was elaborate and the exercises were
held in the auditorium.
Che new building is nearly ready for
use. Hymns written specially for the
occasion by Edwin Taylor and Editor
J. William Bailey Of the Biblical Re-
cOrder were sung by Il choir, introduce
tory remarks We're made by President
George L. Winston, followed by IN adj
dess OF congratulation by DR.. Richard
IL Lewis for the State University;
President W. L. Poteat for Wake For
est college; +. z. Hobgood for the
schools; Secretary of State j. Bryan
Grimes for the farmers; Clarence H.
Poe, for the press; k. W. Scott for the
board of trustees; c. w. Burkett for
the faculty and J. S. Morgan for the
dSIlCultuidi StuucIl0.
An address 20 farmers who were
present in large numbers was made by
PRESIDENT Harvie JOrdon of the South
ern Cotton Growers Association. The
building was formally dedicated by
Lieutenant Governor Winston. Gov
ernor Glenn pledged his aid to cur
additional ~dOrmitories.
Tie Old Agriculture and the New.
Address of Mr.. Clarence II. Poe.
ctllt"r of The Progressive Farmer. at
dedication Ct Agricultural building.
North Carolina Agricultural and Me-
chani.al College. Raleigh. September
l. 1895:
Mr.. President: The completion of
q College building SO macIiificenr in
{ apDearallce and thorough in equip
ms mt as +his. is in itself a matter of
10 small, Importance. butt the fact that
We dcdicata a splendid building to the
Cause of education is the least sigrif-
can't feature of cur meeting here, to-
day. FralugnS with far. fa- greater
meaning is this event. and the axri-
cultural press least of all can fail to
alpreclate It's importance. Farming
| is still by all odds the greatest Occu-
| patton of our people. and this dedica-
: item means nothing more nor less Than
| a rev day in North carolina agr.cI:-
S'A N"N ia
North Carolina as a Commonwealth.
10000 Years of CbanSelcss Farming.
For six thousand wears we know
with even the strictest Biblical inter-
rretation) men have farmed-and for
| how much longer we know net.
the race shall: till the earth is the first
md On'V condition of life imposed by
Nature. We must grow or gather
tine fruits of the soil or death is the.
| '. ooItu RaolE in tho dim aeSt dawn
of history therefore stands vou1 Adam
kccDing nlS garden. Cain c~ultlVat:ng
his fic. ds. and Abel feeding his flocks:
and through the days Of Pha,oah and
caesar and Ckarlemagne nd Alfred II
NapOlcon this oldest and most ilnD"r-
tant OCCUPATION of man has come down
to us-pr.santing in all this time but
remarkably little change il. methods.
Less than a year ago the Worlds Work
Printed a contemporary p~hotOgTaph of
rloWiltg in EgyDt which might we'll
have been taken the day that Moses
led the Israelites cut into the promised
| Canaan. The sickle which had it's
place in the mythology of the ancient
creeks has not been ST. len. cast
aside as to seem unfamiliar to Us. The
Row which CincinnatuS left to herunle
the dictator of Rome would probably
not have been an object of much curl
CSItv t., our grand fathers.
The Tragedy of the Old Agrit ulturc.
For. as has been said. cit is only
after waitirg ten thousand Years that
agriculture is becoming a really we'll
Cryanized and scientific industry
And in this assertion we nave but a
tragic ruth TC. all past generations
which have struggled for a time to
grow the products of the earth and
then themselves slept in its bosom.
| farming has been chiefly a work Of
-~: ilS1
q nan blindfolded. the sol. .tillcr has
worked side by side with the gods
not dreaming of their presence. and
until now not knowing how to harness
the powers they nave stood ready to
PLACE at his disposal. Because Ceres
has not feen wooed. she has with
held her gifts. For farming ne tech
rical education has been thousht nee
esSary. and the essentials to agricu1-
tural success according to the popular
notion. have oaen summed uD by OuI
cwn Josh Billings in the Soulful lines
H who by farmin' wood get rich.
: Must rake and no ard dig an SIGH.
Work hard all dav. sleep hard all mite
Save evry cent. and not get tite."
t Linking Brain and Drawn. Science and
II Strength.
But We have nov Come to a G
:. better dav. The far ner now vok
Science with Strength: Brain AM
; Rrawn are allied in the work OF grow
ing plants and animals. This is wha'
it means hat We are finding cut fol
l the first tine the secrets Of the soil
] and so farming in harmony with Ma
turr. what 1t means hat from 1900!
} SEED that might grow we solicit thu
| dozen with the finest qualities. a:C
: thereby crowd into a century Of oul
= time the results of an age OF natura
. tvolution: what it means that we ar
learning how to stav the pests o
rlants and the plaques Of animals
which once meant famine and desola
ton. what it means that we search
the worlc for new crops finding GU
what Nature intended for each section
thereby winning profits where to def
Nature would he sIicilal-what j
means. in short. that we are bring
ing science and Skill to our all fl
every task from the clearing Of tn
O land to finding a market for the fin
ished product in Persia or Iaran.
TI>o o~r ~ n$orusraran-oa Daft