The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-11
Senator Simmons Ideas
On The Corruptions.
CROPS FOR THE SOUTH
He Talks of Forage Crops That Will
Be of Great Service, Speaks Of
Atlantic City Life and Says
Secretary Wilson is Good
and Thoroughly Honest.

SENATOR summons, WIZ mas UtSll dp
sent from the State something more
than a month, during which time he
travelled through six States, returned
TO the city with his family Wednesday
evening, all much improved in health.
When seen by a reporter of the
News and Observer yesterday the Sem
ator said he and his family had great
ly enjoyed their trip, Dut that they
were all glad to get back to North
Carolina, and "by the way" he add
ed, while some of the localities
have visited or passed through snow
greater signs of wealth. in none are
the evidences of progress and thrill;
more abundant and striking than right
here in North Carolina, and without
boasting, / believe the material indus
trial educational and moral progress
which has taken place in North Car
DINA during the past few years may De
safely balanced against that of amy
section of he Union. -
I'VE spent nearly two weeks at the
great seaside resort of Atlantic City on
the New Jersey coast. This is Won
derful place, with a residence popula-
ton of about $4,000 people and Wis
iting population during the summer OF
about 100, 600 drawn from all parts
of the Union and all quarters of the
globe. The striking physical features
are the great resort hotels and the
famous board walk This is an elevat-
ed walk Of about so feet in width,
hugging the beach for about four
miles. On one side there is nothing
but the ocean and the great covered
shell pier Jutting far out into the
swaying surf, and on the other side a
few of the larger hotels and amuse-
ments, sights, displays and traffic,
such as one sees on the midWays and
pixies of the great world expeditions.
ION my return trip we stopped over
at Washington and l put in two days
work in the departments. Washing
ton is dull as it always is in mid-Sum-
mer The President, the foreign en-
bassadors and diplomats and all the
members Of the cabinet except Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson and Attor,
ney General Moody are away. These
two members of the Presidents official
household are held in Washington, the
one probing into the graft that has
been brought to the surface by the
disclosures of the leak in the cotton
crop report and the other in getting
ready for The Indictment and prose,
cution of the unfaithful officials ana
employees who have brought scandal
upon this great department of the
t.
rotary Wilson. He is a good and
thoroughly honest man, who has done
as Secretary of Agriculture a great
work for the farmers of the country.
He is very much chargined over the
existence of these raScalities in his de :
partment.
while ut the Agricultural Depart
ment | had quite an interesting talk
with Prof Galloway, the great scien-
list, who is at the head of the Bureau
of Plant Industry, with regard to sew
eral forage crops he is trying to in
troduce in the South with the growing
of most of which [ have in a smal
way been experimenting. He is great
believer in the successful growth or
alfalfa in this State, crop which mas
reVolutionized agriculture in the far
West, doubling and trebbling the value
of these He attributes the failure OF
many of the efforts to grow this crop
IN this State to the absence OF thor
ough preparation and effective lnocu-
lation of the lands. 1t is not enough
to inoculate the alfalfa seed. 1t should
follow crop of COW peas, the seed
Of which were iEoculated and In addl-
ton there should be liberal sprink-
ling of inoculated soil. If this is done
and the land thoroughly ploWed and
.eplowed, disced and narrowed L am
satisfied from what | learned from him
as to the successful culture of this
great crop in other Southern States. ii
can be successfully grown here-and
that if so, it will solve the problem
Of live stock raising in the South upon
which, in my judgment successful
farming here as elsewhere is largely
dependent.
Il was very much interested in Prof
Galloway's experiment with the So
called sweet clover weed. This is a
weed that grows rank from four 10
five feet high on poor land and is a.
great if not a greater, soil 1mproVer
as the alfalfa, or the COW pea or beg
gar weed, but while cattle will eat 1t,
they do not relish it and the horse VIII
not eat it ut all. The professor be-
lieyes by crossing and breeding he can
so change this weed as to make it a
fine, nutritious and palatable food for
stock. and # he succeeds it will prob
ably prove to be for the South what
alfalfa has been for the far West, for
il can be grown on most any of our
farred lands.
Il spent a very interesting half hour
discussing sand clay roads for eastern
North Carolina with Prof. E!dTidge, OF
the Eureau Of Public Roads Inquiry.
2herc have been some striking sue
Cesses and come dismal failures In tn"
Attempts made in different sections OF
eastern North Carolina to improve
loads by this process and failure III