The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-11-20
COMMISSIONER PRICE
RENDERS GRATIFYING
REPORT Of STATE

Atlanta, Nov. lI.-That the
Georgia Department OF Argicul-
!, turc has turned into the State
i Treasury the handsome sum OF
i S202, 9l6.84 from oil. fertilizer and
iced inspection during the ten
months ending November 1st, and
that the Department on December
j LIST will begin selling nitrogen fix
ing bacteria at 20 cents per acre
instead OF Is cents, are two entire
ly separate but equally gratifying
and striking facts in the statement
today obtained from State Com
missioner OF Agriculture ]. D..
Price.
Discussing in the first part of
his statement the inspection fees,
Mr.. Price explains that while the
sale of fertilizer and attendant in
spections naturally dropped off
after 1913 when the war started,
and has been below normal ever
since, the fertilizer fees for 1916
have, nevertheless, increased over
| 1914 and 1915, while both the oil
inspection fees and food and feed
inspection fees have shown
magnificent increase and are. larg-
er than ever before.
The grand total of money turn
ed into the Treasury as above an
nounccd for the first ten months
IN 1910. is arrived at as follows:
Net fees in Treasury from in
sDection of Oils for ten months in
l9Io .............$ 13O,411.52
Net fees in Treasury from in
spection of Fertilizers for ten
months in 1916 S5O,O126l
Net fees in Treasury from in
spection of Feeds for ten months
Grand Total 80. 500, 1854
These figures are pleasing, Mr..
Price explains, particularly those
relating to foods and feeds, not
merely because OF the large
amount turned into the Treasury.
| but because they indicate the in
crease III the amount of feeds Of
tered for sale in Georgia, an in
creasingly large proportion of
which, he states, are produced or
manufactured in the state itself.
The fertilizer figures, while
still below normal, show by their
increase in the month Of October
over 1914 and 1915 that more
fertilizer has been used this Fall
than at any similar period since
the European War began, there
by indicating that more grain is
being sown.
The inspection figures for the
month of October. 1916, alone,
which completed the totals above
given for the first ten months of
the year, are also interesting, and
are as follows.
Fees received-for Fertilizer In
spection Tax, including Cotton
Seed Meal .$2,265.O3
Fees received for Feed Inspec-
ton lax ..............$ SO, 145.0O
Fees received from Oil and Case
line Tax .$17 ,4105
Fees received from the sales of
Bacteria .$52625
Grand total .$26,77733
On January lst Commissioner
Price will issue his annual report
showing the complete figures for
the entire year, and it can be pre-
dicted from the facts already
known that they will be highly
creditable to the Department.
Even more gratifying to the
farmers of the state is that por-
ton of. Mr.. Prices statement an
nouncing the reduction in the
price Of nitrogen fixing bacteria.
It will be recalled that in 1914
the Georgia Legislature passed an
act giving the Department of Ag-
riculture authority to grow nitro
gen fixing bacteria to aid in the /
growth of leguminous crops. The
act provided 5000 annually for
the equipment and maintenance of
a laboratory for growing this BAG
terra and provided further that
bacteria was to be(soid at actual
cost to the farmers to- encourage
the growth OF leguminous crops
in Georgia.
Mr., Prices statement shows
that on February 2, 1915, he re-
ceived $500 from the State Treas
uy for this purpose, and on June
Gath, 1915, 500 more, making a
total of $l,4Oo in all; and that
while the act provided that this
was to be an annual appropriation
0f - 000 a veor no h1c .,o,,a- ,.t