The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-12-13
GRAHAM MAKES HIS REPORT
'orn Carolina Moves Up From
"enty-Second Eleventh Since
Report in 1910.

e1gh.-Commissioner of AgricuI.
lure w. A. Graham presented his an.
nual report to the state board of q pri.
culture voluminous document The
Ananclal statement showed a Ienart.
enCal balance in the treasury of $780,
90. Inc receipts for the year were
$S54'S2S, of which $169,945 was for fer
Clnzer tags and $51,095 for feed tags.
@10'OS1 Tor cottonseed meal tags: $18.-
OOO from the test farms: S19811 from
sales OF lime; $42,624 from sales of hog
serum and smaller amounts from other
sources. The report shows the fer
tlilzer tonnage for 1917 to have been
S4S'72S and that for 1916, 626,66O.
Inc commissioner notes the diff
cuAt1es that the millers of the state are
experiencing in inducing the national
1000 control authorities to permit tho
rurther importation of wheat into the
state for milling purposes and SAYS he
is endeavoring to- get census of. the
mills in the state that import wheat
and export -four.
Inc commissioner characterizes the
past general crop year as exception
ally good with most crops, and regrets
serious damage to corn, beans, and
other crops by the heavy October 8
frost
The commissioner pleads for extend
ed effort in the soil survey work.
The commissioner recommended
the immediate sale of the Edgecombe
state test farm on the ground that it
has served it's day and it's operation
is of no further benefit. In fact, he
quotes one citizen as having said that
he travelled over 100 miles to visit
this farm to gather points to aid him
in his own farming operations, only
to get no benefit whatever, and to find
a management in force that he would
not tolerate on his farm.
The report quotes the United States
report on North Carolina crops for
this year, showing the state second in
tobacco, third in sweet potatoes and
buckwheat, sixth in peanuts and sor.
ghum and far down the line in Irish
potatoes, hay, oats and rye. The CON-
missioner makes the significant ncta-
ton that wheat is omitted from his
quotations of the reports, "as it is
thought to be incorrect"
He shows that North Carolina has
climbed from twenty-second to elev-
enth place in United States crop pro.
duction since 1910, and that the crop
values have in that time increased
from $142, 89O, 900 to 1874, ABS, 900.
In the report Of departmental work,
the commissioner notes resentfully
that the legislature keeps the whole
burden Of the maintenance and extern
sion of the state museum on the de-
partment of agriculture.
The farmers institute work is com.
mented upon with insistence that this
should not be urged with the extern
sion of the A. & e. college. There
were $50 Institutes held the past sea-
son with 53,729 in attendance.
He believes the division of markets
is doing good work in equalizing
prices in different sections of the state
with equal marketing opportunities.
The report quotes Treasurer d. A.
Houston, of the Federal Land Loan
bank, as showing that to November
10, $31O,495 had been loaned in this
state with $2,12O,971 approved as
loans to be perfected as soon as alb.
stracts are perfected.
The report shows a great work for
the home economics division under
Mrs McKimmon.
The commissioner points out that
the crop statistics are gathered by the
bureau of crop estimates for all the
states and these figures are accepted
bv the state departments that have no
funds for gathering these statistics.
He SAYS this is the first time that
their figures have been attacked with
proof of inaccuracy as to the wheat
crop in this state and he feels that the
bureau should be given hearing be-
fore their work is condemned. This
is his comment on recent effort of the
wheat mil1ers to overthrow the figures
as to the wheat crop in the state as
wrongfully inducing the federal food
control authorities to curta11 the 1mpor'
tation of wheat by the millers.