Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-24
STATE MONEY WELL SPENT

There has never been any doubt IN
the mind of those who knew of the
results that have been obtained from
the State Experiment station at Ex-
pertinent that the work was well worth
while 1t is work that the state OIL
Georgia should support, though
strange to say, but little support has
been given to it until the danger OF
losing the $4,000 government appro-
priation was mentioned recently. The
fact that the legislative committee
that has this matter under considera-
ton has decided to give the station
S.. 900 makes of special interest the
following editorial discussion from the
Augusta Chronicle:
That rather outspoken letter of crit
icism, from Acting Secretary Gallo
way. of the agricultural department n
Washington, on conditions which have
obtained for several years at the
Georgia experiment station, was I'm
doubtedly a vast surprise to the peo-
pie of Georgia when it was made pub
lie recently.
The board of directors will hold I
meeting Wednesday of this week u
devise plans for more nearly meeting
the governments requirements for 4
continuation of the enjoyment of a
fund of $4,000 a year. That they will
make up such a plan, and that the
plan will be followed hereafter, goes
almost without saying, since it is us
ually the case in conditions of this
kind. where an incorrect situation has
been made quite plain, in such unmis-
taxable terms, that lightning doesn
strike twice in the same spot
Passing study of the situation at the
Experiment Station might have re-
vealed the fact that it all along has
been an impossibility to maintain
plant such as that one at Griffin and
attain the results, from a commercial;
that have been reached
there on the beggarly pittance of some
$500 or $500 year given it by the
state of Georgia, and, moreover, thar
there could have been but mighty lit
tie experimenting" in the light of the
letter of law, with comparatively vast
returns" And it is just this that
Secretary Galloway has so pointedly
put on paper in telling the state gov
eminent moneys have not been prop
erly used.
Commissioner Price in explaining the
diversion of the federal fund, for ex-
detrimental purposes, by the manage
ment of the Georgia station, says:
The diverting of a portion of the ap-
in years past to purposes
other than those contemplated in tHa
act of congress was due to the fact
that the state has not appropriate
sufficient money to the station to
erect buildings and keep them in re-
pair. Only about $500 a year is given
to this institution by the state AMI
practically. all of that sum is used to
pay the per diem and mileage of the
members of the board of trustees"
But, it all can't but leave an un-
pleasant sentiment in the mind of the
people of Georgia when, in addition TO
saying that attention has repeatedly
been called to the existing condition
Secretary Galloway says, in letter
which has been made public to the
world:
The policy of conducting a model
farm, with general farming, dairying,
and other operations on commercial
scale, or with insignificant and insult
ficient experimental features, has led
in the judgment of the department to
practical diversion of the federal
funds from their proper use. AS re-
suit of this policy the federal funds
have been placed in sales or surplus
fund used freely for purposes contrary