The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12

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still doing a great service to the PEG
pie of the State. and one needs but 10
see the tremendous impetus that OF
late years has taken place in the new
and improved methods of armln TO
know that the nfOney invested III
chi our farmers how to lntelll-
gently farm has yielded tremendous
dividends in beneficial results inns
department also has charge of immi-I
grafton. and has shown its wisdom as
much in keeping hordes of criminal,
ignorant and vicious persons away
from the State as in bringing III
thrifty, progressive n good fmml-
grants. who add to our wealth by IN
dustrious habits. With its expert
mental farms, farmers institutes, bW-
letins and practical teaching of farm
ing, dairying, fruit raising ana breed
ing of cattle, the Agricultural Depart
ment is opening the eyes of our farm
ers to up-to-date, progressive IDEAS OF
~cultivating their farms, and IS teacn-
ing them that a farmer is better OH
for being scientifically and practically
educated, and that farming can be
made both remunerative and respec-
table at the same time. Every en-
couragement should be given this de-
partment so vitality affecting the high
est interest and development OF our
farming classes.
State Prison.
While all the various institutions
and departments of the State have
been managed well / feel / am making
no invidious distinction when 1 assert
that no institution has been more
c%reditably conducted than the State
Prison. For eight years it not only
has been self-SuppOrting but has also
actually paid into the Treasury thous-
ands of dollars to help bear the or
binary expenses of the State. In 1907
the General Assembly passed an act
| directing the State Prison to pay off
$40, 900 worth of prison bonds. and,
later, another act directing it 10 pay
into the Treasury out of "its earnings"
$4,000 to meet the appropriations
voted by it. The prison authorities
paid into the Treasury $175,O which
amount was used to defray ordinary
expenses and a appropriations, and
then reported to the Governor and
Council of State that they were ready
to comply with the act to pay off the
bonds, but that to do so there WOuld
be left nothing with which to feed and
support theHOnvicts. and that an ap-
preparation would have to be asked
for this The Governor and
Council We're of the opinion that the
Legislature never intended the prison
to pay over anything, thus itself be-
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what net amount it had out of its
earnings after meeting all current ex-
penses. Not wishing, however, to vio-
late even the letter of the law, the
directors Of the prison paid to the
Treasurer all the funds it had on
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hand, skiing him to hold the same,
subject to your Instructions as to what
| should be done. /, therefore, respect
fully ask that o at once pass an act
directing the Treasurer to return the
amount paid him, OF at least enough
of it to enable them to run the prison
| without any appropriation. This GER
tainIy was the intention of the last
Legislature, and it would be foolish
to pay this money in and then have
to ask an appropriation to run the
prison.
The report of superintendent Mann
to the directors of the prison, giving
his views as to how prisoners convict-
ed of crime should be used and treat
ed, is 81 full and clear that I ann
add one word to it. but endorse it, ant
read it as a part Of my message.
ask o to have tWp hundred copie:
printed and distributed among thu
members, that they may study it and
if they agree with him and me. enac
it into q law. At first, some who dc
sire county control will object, bn
Z J1AtS Will So
that, for efficient and cheap work, foI
humane treatment, free from scandal
and for economic reasons, State ant
not county control should be at one
adopted. Owing to the fact that al
able-bodied men not convicted of ag
gravated ~offenses go to the chair
gangs of the counties. and very few
except m 1ong-term prisoner.
and weaklings. come to the State
Prison worry soon this ~ in Sfitntfor,
under any administration, will becom,
a charge on the State, while by adopt
ing the plan suggested the prison viii
be self-Sustaining and yielding a re
serve, the counties get cheaper an,
better road building, the convicts b.
treated more humanely, in that the.
can be better fed. housed and ooket
after when sick. and all danger o
scandals, such as have d~isgraced som
Of our sister States, averted.
Jamestown Exposition.
The State appropriated $4,000 to
wards having an exhibit at James
town in 1907. and also rave the ne
groes $1,000 for their display. Boil
sums were good investments, for, Will,
in many respects the exposition wa;
a failure. not SO the North Caroline
exhibit, for by advertising our agri
lcuftural, mineral, forest, textile, indus
trial n educational ant
possibilities, our State became known
througho&t the world. nj the atten
ton of investors and hOme-seeker
called to our advantage of soil, watel
power, climate and resources as nevel
before. We were awarded many o
the best prizes. and both the white ant
colOred exhibits won praise from al
who saw them. Too much prais,
cannot be given the splendid commits
siOners who without pay for their ser
vices rendered such efficient servic,
in thus properly bringing before tn,
worlds eye our wonderful achieve
ments II future possibilities. The,
not only kept within the a%ppropria
ton made but finally sold our Stat
building for a sum in excess of an,
amount paid for any other State build
ing, some of which were prettier an,
more costly than ours. and actuall
paid back into the Treasury the sun
of $~5,675.75.
State G~cologic;I Survey.
At the Convention OF Governors
4 held at the White House last Ma.
and presided over by the President o