The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-20

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revenues provided.
two items for the Agricultural College;
one for $a5,000 for tho dairy barn and
laboratory, and ono for 100000 for .
veterinary barn. And %, my friends,
I thought that in Wow Of the great
revenue already given the college, they
might be able to get along without one
Of the items for another year OF two.
80 I tried to call mp President Worst,
but he was out Of the city and I asked
Professor Van Ess which one Of the
two items was the moro necessary-the
dairy barn or the veterinary barn. And
Dr.. Van Ess, like the honest gentleman
that he 10, refused to advise ne be-
cause ne was 90 deeply interested in
his personal efforts in the veterinary
matter.
And 20 took the matter under ad-
visement and thought Of the 100000
which had been appropriated BY the
state to pay for the glandered horses
which might have been saved had We
been sufficiently well informed on the
question Of the disease Of animals.
And 20 I thought that We needed the
veterinary barn moro than We needed
the dairy barn, and % one had to 20
to keep the states expenditures within
its revenues, vetoed the bill providing
for the one they could best do with.
out-the dairy barn.
It seems to me, my friends, that the
ones who put that bill through and
waited to have it come to my desk un-
til the last night Of tho session, need
more blame in this matter than /, who
merely vetoed the bill to keep our rev.
enues within our resources.
We hope to have our college the
greatest Agricultural College in the
United States, a. our own state u the
greatest agricultural state in the Union.
But We cannot do it all at once-we
must 60 about it carefully and slowly.
Let me read you part Of my mes.
sage to the last legislature-my mes.
sage, from q man who the Forum says
is knocking the farmers:
tThe dairy interests Of this state
under the efficient supervision Of AS.
sistant Dairy Commissioner Flint have
prospered. During the last two years,
twenty new creameries have been con-
structed, and sixteen million pounds of
butter is reported to have been made
from North Dakota cream. The dairy
interest is one that should be encour-
aged for the reason that this is an
agricultural country, and no agricul-
tural country can be kept rich and fer.
tile without diversified farming. Dairy.
ing means diversified farming. It means
enriched land. It means ready money
for the dairymen at all seasons Of the
year. There is no failure in the dairy
crop.
"For this reason it should be en-
couraged, and call your especial at
tention to the Recommendation asked
for by Assistant Commissioner Flint,
viz: That the dairy interests Of this
generally distributed that one deputy
can not properly cover the state and
that, the salary should be, at least,
equal to the salary Of other deputy
state officers.
.'This request seems reasonable. A
man qualified to look after the dairy in
terests Of the state is valuable man.
He must necessarily be an educated
man; and, above all, good, practical,
common sense man. Such man g SER
vices are valuable to the state and if
such men are secured as deputies and
paid the same as other deputy state
officers, it will be good investment
for the state"
And still the stalwart papers say I
am knocking the farmer, after signed
a bill appropriating $4,000 for an in
vestigation Of the freight rates on
grain, bill for 100000 for the Live
Stock Sanitary Board and bill for
$4,000 for glandered horses. That g
the extent Of my knocking on the
farmer.O