The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-04
NO DECISION WAS REACHED
Committee Meets in Regard to the
Test Farm.
DIR. Porter. Who is a Resident of Pen-
der. Wishes Farm Located i'm New
Hanover and Thought it Best for
All Concerned That Farm be Locat-
eG Here.

! Commissioner Of Agriculture Patttr-
| son, State Chemist B. W. Kilgore, State
Horticultural III. II. Hume and Mr.
VIM. Dunn, these comprising the COM
| mittee that is to chose a suitable loca-
| ton for a test farm, met at The Orion
| hotel yesterday afternoon at l o'clock,
with a committee of business men in
regard to locating the test farm III
New Hanover county. Prior to this
meeting the committee from Raleigh
| went out the Market street road and
viewed the old Switzerland place now
owned by a Mr.. Mcclellan.
No decision was reached by the COLI
mittee yesterday, and it will probably
be several days before anything def
mite is made known. Mr.. Patterson
and Professor Kilgore are going to
spend Sunday on the beach, but the
others returned to their homes list
night.
Among those present at the meeting
yesterday was Ur. E. Porter, and re
made a talk in which he favored New
Hanover because he thought it The
best location for all concerned. Dr..
Porter said he was a native of Pender
county and that no man would be
quicker than he to aid his home IL
ty, but being one of the officers of he
East Carolina Truck and Fruit Grow
ers' Association, he thought it his duty
not to view the test farm as a matter
OF local interest hut as a state
institution. DR.. Porter said if all other
things were equal he would like for
the farm to be in Fender, but tnar
there were other things to be con-
sidered besides the soil. The speaker
asserted hat he had nothing to say
about the soil at Willard, but thought
the soil in New Hanover equally as
good and that Wilmington would he
far more accessible with her five lines
of railroad than Willard. He thought
Wilmington the only feasible place 10
locate the test farm.
DR.. Porter is from Rocky Point and
is one of the largest berry growers in
eastern Carolina. He has grown rich
raising vegetables and strawberries,
His word should go a long ways with
the Board of Agriculture, for he is a
chemist and has thoroughly examined
and analyZed soil on the Garre1 farm.
A man with the experience OF Dr.
Porter and not being from Wilmington,
should in itself ne sufficient testimony
to make the committee from Raleigh
decide In favor of the Carroll farm
Professor Hume at one time recon-
mended that the Carroll farm be pur-
chased, but he explained this yester-
day by saying that at that time he bad
not seen the farm at Willard, ard when
he did see it he at once recommended
that it be purchased.
Those who made talks in regard to
TO tas-antgttRr wese; <ssIessfs- !. f. Tay-
lor, q. w. Whitehead, Mcclellan, NJ. +
II. Gouverneur, W.. A. Dick S. L. Pat.
tisOn, H. H.. Hume and Dr. E. Porter.
The gentlemen from Wilmington urged
that the farm be placed in New Han
over and put up some exceedingly
strong argument. They pointed to the
thousands of dollars made on the farms
around Wilmington and spoke especial
~ of the Carroll farm.
Commissioner Patterson gave a his
tory of the entire matter, telling just
why the farm was located at Willard
Mr.. u. w. Whitehead, editor Of the
Truckers Journal. had Il number of
letters from prominent truck farmers
OF the different roads expressing the
greatest desire that the test farm be
located in New Hanover One or
these was from the ChadbOurn
section and was in the nature of a pc
tition. Truck farmers all over the
trucking belt. With the exception OF
those living around Willard appear to
want the farm near Wilmington.