The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-06-04
State Must Support Experiment.
Station or Lose Its Benefits
Federal government will permit Georgia k its duty longer
Every legislator should rally TO the support Of the
Experiment station.

In order to avert the crisis in th,
affairs of the Georgia Experiment
Station at Experiment, Ga, and K
save to the farmers Of the state thu
excellent services which have beer
rendered to the people Of Georgia
through that agency, and which are
being rendered today as never be-
fore. the board Of directors OF the
Experiment station are asking the
cooperation Of every member Of the
Georgia Legislature.
The following letter has been sent
to every member Of the legislature
by the board Of directors through
the director Of the station, Mr.. r.
j. H. DeI.oach:
Dear sir;-
AS a law maker for the State Of
Georgia, you are wide awake to all
that effects the prosperity Of your
constituency. We believe that the
Georgia Experiment Station should
be made vital factor in the devel-
opement Of Georgia's agriculture.
Under the present conditions this
is impossible, because Of lack Of
State support. Perhaps you do not
realize that Georgia does not appro-
pirate anything atall to her Expert
ment Station. There was appro-
priated So, 900 years for each Of
thi years 1889, 1890 and 1891 70
the purpose Of building an office, a
barn and two dwellings
Since 1891 the station has been
kept up sorely BY the Federal Gov
eminent. The old buildings are
fast becoming unfit for use, and
something must be done il the sta
ton is to continue it's work. The
conditions on which the Federal
Government is expected to support
an Experiment Station are that the
several states shall finnish adequate
laboratories and equipment for ex-
perinental work. Every state in
the Union has done this except Geor-
gia and we are now making spe-
cial appeal to you and are giving
you this information in order that
you may know the truth and that
we may be properly represented in
the next session Of the Georgia Leg
islature.
Unless the station receives some
dind Of state support, it will have
to be operated more or less as a
Federal Research Institution, and
thereby be deprived Of its greater
usefulness to the people Of your
state 1t does not seem fair to the
state to put such restrictions around
an institution that could otherwise
be made of such great service tc
the States agricultural develope-
ment; neither docs it seem Just thai
ar institution should &c required t
violate the conditions Of a Feee a
appropriation in order to meet thu
shortcomings of a state. This j
what was done year ago, when two
barns were built with Federal none.
at total cost Of $3.50. The funC
with which the barns were bull
we're appropriated by the Fedora
Government for maintenance anc
not for permanent buildings. There
fore the Federal Government wa
forced to critictse severely the station
| for SO unjust policy, but what els
was left to the management OF tn
station? The barns became an alb
solute necessity if the work was ex
pected to continued and the stat
did not appropriate money witt
which to put up the buildings. w
are now face to face with like diff
Ificulty. We have officers at tn
station without any laboratories a
all in whi,h to work, and we ar
anxious to make use Of the none
now given the Ttation by the FEEDER
al Government.
We have all been far to neglect