The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-05-23
HARD BLOW To
COLLEC At
SALTWATER
IMMEDIATE CLOSING OF CREAM
ERY AND LIVESTOCK FEEDING
is ORDERED, ALL OVER A
QUESTION OF FEES.

Oklahoma City, May 2l-Immedi-
ate closing of the creamery and dis
continuance of livestock feeding eX-
periments at the A. e NJ. college at
saltwater is ordered in a letter Sat
urday from President Frank NJ. Gault
of the state board of agriculture to
j. w. Cantwell, president of the col
lege.
This action by Mr.. Gault is a re-
suit of an opinion from the attorney
general, which held that all fees col
lected by the school from the cream
cry department and livestock expert
ment feeding should be turned into
the state depository and not used to
carry on the work.
The opinion was given in response
to a request from State Examiner and
Inspector Fred Parkinson as to what
disposition should be made of the
funds in pcrfecting system of ac-
counting. for the institution.
Letter Sent TO CantWelI.
A portion of President Gaults let
ter to President Cantwell reads:
"On April 90 Fred Parkinson, state
examiner and inspector, required of
the attorney general an opinion with
reference to state funds. He espec-
tally requested an opinion in regard
to the use of moneys operating the
A. & NJ. dormitory, the dairies, stu
dents fees, laboratory fees and other
fees collected by the A. e NJ. college
and the district agricultural schools
and other institutions of this state,
and what disposition should be made
Of such fees.
"Under this opinion it will be nee
essary to close the creameries and
cease manufacturing dairy products.
1t will also be necessary to dispense
with livestock feeding experiments
now being carried on at the A. & NJ
College.
These experiments have been a
great benefit to the farmers of this
state; but under the opinion and the
appropriations it is an impossibility
to further conduct these experiments.
All fees collected of any nature must
be turned directly into the state treas
ury in accordance with the opinion
rendered.
Forecasts Consequences.
81 desire and request that you |
make all necessary arrangements for
the immediate closing of the cream
cry department, the discontinuance |
of all feeding experiments in live
stock, such as cattle, horses, sheep, |
swine, poultry and all other expert
ments where there are no appropri-
ated funds to carry them on.
"This will hamper and injure the
and the farmers until the
of another Legislature, and
at such time we hope to be able to
iron out the difficulties and get ap-
sufficiently large To al
low us to continue an agricultural
and experimental school such as was
by the constitution and
laws of this state, returning all funds
directly to the state treasurer agree
able to the opinion rendered on May
& nv Assistant Attorney General j.
NJ. Crook.
Flags State Examiner.
"The state examiner and inspect
or's office is directly responsible for
this condition. But affairs in that
office are being ironed out, the gov
ernor having employed under an act
of the legislature (appropriating $12,-
OOO) an expert from New York at
cost of $23 a day who has organized
the examiners department into
school, and has taught that school,
as I understand it, for the past three
months.
at remains to be seen what Will be
the result, good or bad, from sucn
high-priced knowledge. High-priced |
goods come in small packages, but
you, as president of the A. & NJ.
College, have a very large package |
to handle agreeable to the examin-
er's recent opinion received.
oklahoma seems to have an over
supply of statesmen without states
lawyers without legal abil-
ity, legislators without experience,
and hell is to pay at the college,
with no pitch hot to heal the wounds
by incompetent advice from
the state examiner and inspectors
office.