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VOL. XXX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., AUG. 3, 1895. NO. 31. THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Convention at Denver, Colorado. Editors Indiaka Fai-mkr: Following the great National Educational Convention at Denver, came the ninth annual convention—all men—of tlie association of American agricultural colleges ami experiment stations. The session lasted from Tuesday, Hie 16th of .Inly till Thursday, the 18th, and mi Friday, ihe 19th,over i-">o of Hie members went on an all day trip lo the Agricultural College of Colorado at Ft.Col- lins. There were about lOStatesand Territories represented by the '.HI delegates who met Tuesda. morning to hear the usual hearty welcome by Hie governor and the mayor and ihe response by Chairman Alvord. Then regular business began witli reports of committees through their chairmen as follows: Agriculture and chemistry j E. Ii. Voor- hees, of New Jersey. Horticulture and Botany, W. 1!. I.a/.- enliy. of Ohio. Entomology, c. P. Gillette, of Colorado, Mechanics, F. P. Anderson, of Kentucky. These reports showed that much experimentation and original Investigation was going on in the agricultural oolleges. -lion on farming could be !ms\vVfW.i! such a convention The reports told of the multitude "f reports and bulletins—ill'i, making 75-537,- -70 printed pages. Florida had studied the pineapple and issued a bulletin. Thirteen stations an- specializing on garden vegetables. Georgia is trying to open a should be cured, not burned in the arid new province for the sweet-potato as a regions, [n the east soils need replenishing, though iii much of the west as yet no school course and professional agriculturists iu th< Heir uise. President clute, of Florida, quoted Win. T. Harris's remark lhat agriculture had not been reduced to pedagogic form. Professor Etane, of Virginia, and President Bills,of Colorado, spoke on th*'educational aspect of the agricultural Interests. They agreed that agricultural colleges must raise their literary standard and give students more culture than they had so far been doing, or else the agricultural courses and colleges would still be looked down on as inferior and students be ashamed of their departments. The fault iii Colorado and elsewhere is not with the people nor with the faculty, but with the legislature which defines the course.- and allows short cuts. A. i'. True, *.f Washington, D, <'.. gat ,• a valuable paper. He is at the center of things and knows the status ofthe agricultural colleges and the nature of their national Character. He assured Hie members that these colleges have come to slay. He pleaded for unity in aim and organization and advocated long tenure of ollice. lie slated that about 1,000,000 copies of pamphlets and bulletins had I'cen.selil out. The association adopted the proposal of stating resoUs of tests of dairy cows or herds as bu I terfal : and when desirable to express these r rds in butter equivalents, io compute by multiplying the amount of butter-fat by one and one-sixteenth. ri.is i i litn or i ii i: soi... In discussing "methods *>f maintaining fertility" there wasa strong sentiment expressed on the desirability of keeping farmers mil of the hands of fertilising companies. It was held that manure source of stand,. Blights', moulds, bacteria, medicinal plants, forestry, questions of longevity and nutrition, effects of altitude, all these and many more subjects are being investigated and records are made so fast and numerous that the up-to-date farmer will soon be of necessity a reader and student; and the study of agriculture will have to break Up into a dozen different studies just as "science" will no longer do for the name of a college chair. COLLEGE WORK. (>n the second day Director .1. II. Council, of Texas, reported on college work. lack of fertile soil troubles thc farmer. I,oss IIV INSECT PESTS. The entomology section gave ils verdict that there was no danger lo be feared from poison sprayed on cabbage, as a weak man would nave to eat 22 cabbage heads to get enough Paris green or London purple to poison him. A. H. Hopkins, of West Virginia, read a paper stating that *:*_.."..,MM,.,HH, loss is caused by the ravages of tree bisects every year, and also "an indirect loss through injured trees, making defective lumber, estimated at $100,00n,linn." Mark beetles He said: In _D institutions $75^00 have alone dd*$5^)0,000,6oO damage. All-parts of been spent on permanent equipment, Massachusetts leading With $13,000. Cornell has most teachers of all agricultural and mechanical colleges. There arc 45 in the mechanical department alone at Cor- and the manual training of colored boys ■•IL Both of these themes elicited great inlor- TK.ITI.Ml AGRICULTURE, est, llll t 1 i I He generosity. The first Wa- Professor Hunt, of Ohio, then read one left I*. real another year; and on the >i-r trees arc liable to attack The section on n hanii- arts had two points lo make: their section should be recognised in the title of ihe association, of lhe best papers of the session. His theme was "Methods of instruction iii ond the stultified conclusion was reached, or seemed to be reached that "beyond a teaching-agriculture." The burden of the certain point negro education *la pro. the paper was that we must abandon the notion that a farmer needs but little education. He i.eiicM- thoroughly in technical training but also in culture. "No education ■•an be too good for the man who is going to be a farmer," he said. lie had found, as teachers do everywhere, that as a class the agricultural students do less work in a given lime in physics and mathematics than their neighbors. The agricultural student nounced an element of discord to lb.- negro race." The section on horticulture held a long Session. The papers presented were strictly scientific Professor Card, of Nebraska;'showed bow much local factors influence BOIL MOISTURE. He said n half inch of rain would not soak in six inches. Alfalfa uses up the moisture quicker than cereals. Hot must lie trained to think as « ell as to do. \\ inds do not dry up the soil very mnch', but the damage is lo the plants themselves. Many trees on the plains perish from winter drouth as from Bummer drouth. In spring shallow rooted plants Poor text-books are better than good courses Of lectures. There has been too much originality and through it lack of system. Professor W. M.Hays, of Minnesota, in- are dried out by the wind. There is a terestcd all present by some instances of popular notion that salt helps land rc- practical work he was doing. He has his students Judge live stock: do laboratory work in dairying; buy, kill and dress meat and poultry for three hundred people,— students being detailed to lake charge of the meal house for a week at a time. Farmers arc made in the high- tain moisture. Experiments do not make it very Certain how much. The effect of wind-brakes will be tried. "\ I iiim'ici 1.1 ru.;. I'l-.-id,■nt Budd, of low a, who numbers aiming "boys" all ihe agriculture professors of Canada, ami about 30 ofthe most prominent in the Slates, spoke of crossing fruits. Th nolher" (i. *•. lhe furnishing pistil) gives the permanent qualities to ihe tree,—.Its power to resist frost and age— w hile Hi.' pollen gives the new qualities desired. S.i to hardy 1,'us- sian apple and cherry varieties, or lo northern pears, plums, and strawberries the delicious ilavor and fragrance "f southern fruits may be added. The l.utovskv cherry now ripe iii Colorado is one of President Budd's hybrids. It is as large as California cherries, is deep red and has good taste. As President Itiidd -lepped up lo a fruit stand and showed some friends that eberry a German gardener came up and said: "I raised those cherries. A man iu Iowa sent mc buds eight years ago." "I am th*-man" said President Budd. A oertain man in California is making *."iII,ikki per year out of hybrids, but President Bndd works pro bono publico. II mini l.osls | \ c vi | |.K. In lhc evening the general session was largely of business. Reports from States ami territories on tuberculosis iii oattle had been ordered a year ago and Were now heard. These reports showed that l"i Studs had taken action on ihe disease, providing for Hie destruction of diseased animals. The reports showed that frequently animals supposed to be affected were found not to be, and in such cases the cap-ass was returned to the owner with the full appraisal value of the anl- 11 al besides. In the morning of the third day, as usual,a committee .to thank everybody was appointed, and an Invitation to are" ception by the governors of I Colorado and Wyoming was accepted for '.i:.'.u p. m. All nominations of Ihe five sections were affirmed. Kol till 11a.m.did the regular program begin. A short paper was read urging uui- •formity in names in works on agriculture. Professor < 'ard, of Nebraska, spoke of methods. All agree that students need ; text books. In answer lo a qdestion 1'rof- fessor Card said lhat a greenhouse was **ne of the best tools to help the student in horticulture. MORE ABOUT sol j.s. Professor Hilgurd, "f California then gave a vc-ry learned address iiii -oils. He showed by charts where the alkali is, and told how it could be dealt with, lie takes a very hopeful view of alkali soils and says alkali is Inexhaustible. It is bad lo lei water stagnate on land. Evaporation increases alkali, and si ould be prevented. Constant ami deep cultivation prevents damage by alkali. In some cases where there is deep soil and lhe alkali is all on top it will pay to use the sera),er. and bodily remove six inches of the surface. (iflen gypsum add. ed to the soil will be serviceable. Gypsum forms the sulphate of soda, which is much less harmful than the carbonate. Common salt will enter a> beet and taint it where the sulphate will nol. Alkali once dealt with the land is relieved for good. si \ i.i-; or ci * t \ i-s, i-I iu i it i'ir. The section on horticulture had 27 top- lot I., discuss, i inly a few conld be taken op, and a committee was appointed i*> select a few subjects for next lime. The section appointed a committee to decide on a scale of points lo be used as a standard in judging garden products, Professor < 'ard. **f Nebraska, w as elected chairman for 1898. Professor Tourney, of Arisona, in a paper, called attention to the alarming decrease iu perennial grasses, in grazing countries. In Arizona, where onlv one per cent, of Ihe land is tilled, the grazing lands have been largely ruined by over stocking;-ind parte Of Nebraska and other- Stales have lost their native grasses. Stockmen used to graze one range dov, n. then drive long distances to new ranges: but now ihe question is how many cattle are. to graze one range. In lhe last general session a committee reported In favor of adopting the metric system of weights and measures, saying that now was the best lime, as the United states would never be in better idltion. But the mailer was laid on the table. A motion was carried to send a com mission abroad ro sir Dt Minn ri.i ritAi. methods and red agricultural leaching to a pedagogical form. Ai each session of the National Educational Association, some on*' theme predominates; as manual training, i-hild- study, co-ordination, etc. s<, in the sessions of the agricultural educators this time, lhe trend of all the papers was that students and farmers need uiore enlightenment. The farmer boy must lie willing to take a general education, and not try loo early to be a specialist. Several speakers were applauded when they staled thai the standard of studies should be raised iii agricultural colleges,and that farmers should be well enough educated to represent farmers in our State and National legislate e halls. ON IRRIGATION. Irrigation will doubtless receive much attention next year. The delegates were much impressed by the results of irrigation ln Colorado. And at one session the farmer-senator, Boyd, of Colorado, (who was made a member of the Association), gave a telling objee I lesson by introducing two stools of oats, one four feet high and lhe oilier about ls inches. The first w as an irrigation specimen, the oilier had only rain. Both had grown on Ihe same soil, within flve feel of each other. This Illustration was the more effective because the rainfall here has been unusually large. Thus, iu Colorado, with irrigation, lu bushels of wheat can i.e raised as easily, and with much more regularity than mi bushels In eastern Slates where there is not irrigation. The strawberries for sale iu abundance, at flve cents per quart, on the streets ,*r Denver, were objects of frequent comment—ordinary berries being larger than lhe choicest ones that appear preserved at fairs jn some other States. The Russian thistle was set In quite a new light, by this convention. Professor Bolley, of North Dakota, regards the Russian thistle as the worst of western weeds, but not so frightfully danger*.us as it is usually regarded. II thrives only iu dry, poof soil, ii cannot he exterminated, but, like other w ceils, it cannot lie kept down. President Budd, of Iowa, remarked thai in lliissia, he found lhe mustard plant more an enemy than the thistle. s.i. Denver, Col. Psrcy it. Burkkt. UNCLE SAM SHUTS DOWN ON FREE SEEDS. A Washington dispatch **f .inly -m says; "Th*' seed division of the Agricultural Department will be abolished on October i. Secretary Morton has issued an order staling that the practice of distributing seed broadcast at Governmental expense will be discontinued during the fiscal year 1896 and 1886, and thai the services of the employes engaged ill that work will not be required after October _. Accordingly Mathias E. I'agin, of Illinois, chief of the Division at $_VKKI a year and the entire force of employes, will be dropped from Hi*- rolls. "Secretary Morton's action la baaed mi a recent decision ot Mr. Olney, then Attorney-General, regarding the class of seed purchased by the department, The latter held in effect that the Secretary of Agriculture was empowered lo purchase only those seed described in Section :>_.7 of the revised statutes, viz.: Rare and uncommon to the country or such as can bc made more profitable by frcipient changes from one part of our country to another." This order is not much to be regretted. The seeds sent OUt have not usually been better than those furnished by the seedsmen, and often they were quite inferior.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1895, v. 30, no. 31 (Aug. 3) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA3031 |
Date of Original | 1895 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Transcript | VOL. XXX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., AUG. 3, 1895. NO. 31. THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Convention at Denver, Colorado. Editors Indiaka Fai-mkr: Following the great National Educational Convention at Denver, came the ninth annual convention—all men—of tlie association of American agricultural colleges ami experiment stations. The session lasted from Tuesday, Hie 16th of .Inly till Thursday, the 18th, and mi Friday, ihe 19th,over i-">o of Hie members went on an all day trip lo the Agricultural College of Colorado at Ft.Col- lins. There were about lOStatesand Territories represented by the '.HI delegates who met Tuesda. morning to hear the usual hearty welcome by Hie governor and the mayor and ihe response by Chairman Alvord. Then regular business began witli reports of committees through their chairmen as follows: Agriculture and chemistry j E. Ii. Voor- hees, of New Jersey. Horticulture and Botany, W. 1!. I.a/.- enliy. of Ohio. Entomology, c. P. Gillette, of Colorado, Mechanics, F. P. Anderson, of Kentucky. These reports showed that much experimentation and original Investigation was going on in the agricultural oolleges. -lion on farming could be !ms\vVfW.i! such a convention The reports told of the multitude "f reports and bulletins—ill'i, making 75-537,- -70 printed pages. Florida had studied the pineapple and issued a bulletin. Thirteen stations an- specializing on garden vegetables. Georgia is trying to open a should be cured, not burned in the arid new province for the sweet-potato as a regions, [n the east soils need replenishing, though iii much of the west as yet no school course and professional agriculturists iu th< Heir uise. President clute, of Florida, quoted Win. T. Harris's remark lhat agriculture had not been reduced to pedagogic form. Professor Etane, of Virginia, and President Bills,of Colorado, spoke on th*'educational aspect of the agricultural Interests. They agreed that agricultural colleges must raise their literary standard and give students more culture than they had so far been doing, or else the agricultural courses and colleges would still be looked down on as inferior and students be ashamed of their departments. The fault iii Colorado and elsewhere is not with the people nor with the faculty, but with the legislature which defines the course.- and allows short cuts. A. i'. True, *.f Washington, D, <'.. gat ,• a valuable paper. He is at the center of things and knows the status ofthe agricultural colleges and the nature of their national Character. He assured Hie members that these colleges have come to slay. He pleaded for unity in aim and organization and advocated long tenure of ollice. lie slated that about 1,000,000 copies of pamphlets and bulletins had I'cen.selil out. The association adopted the proposal of stating resoUs of tests of dairy cows or herds as bu I terfal : and when desirable to express these r rds in butter equivalents, io compute by multiplying the amount of butter-fat by one and one-sixteenth. ri.is i i litn or i ii i: soi... In discussing "methods *>f maintaining fertility" there wasa strong sentiment expressed on the desirability of keeping farmers mil of the hands of fertilising companies. It was held that manure source of stand,. Blights', moulds, bacteria, medicinal plants, forestry, questions of longevity and nutrition, effects of altitude, all these and many more subjects are being investigated and records are made so fast and numerous that the up-to-date farmer will soon be of necessity a reader and student; and the study of agriculture will have to break Up into a dozen different studies just as "science" will no longer do for the name of a college chair. COLLEGE WORK. (>n the second day Director .1. II. Council, of Texas, reported on college work. lack of fertile soil troubles thc farmer. I,oss IIV INSECT PESTS. The entomology section gave ils verdict that there was no danger lo be feared from poison sprayed on cabbage, as a weak man would nave to eat 22 cabbage heads to get enough Paris green or London purple to poison him. A. H. Hopkins, of West Virginia, read a paper stating that *:*_.."..,MM,.,HH, loss is caused by the ravages of tree bisects every year, and also "an indirect loss through injured trees, making defective lumber, estimated at $100,00n,linn." Mark beetles He said: In _D institutions $75^00 have alone dd*$5^)0,000,6oO damage. All-parts of been spent on permanent equipment, Massachusetts leading With $13,000. Cornell has most teachers of all agricultural and mechanical colleges. There arc 45 in the mechanical department alone at Cor- and the manual training of colored boys ■•IL Both of these themes elicited great inlor- TK.ITI.Ml AGRICULTURE, est, llll t 1 i I He generosity. The first Wa- Professor Hunt, of Ohio, then read one left I*. real another year; and on the >i-r trees arc liable to attack The section on n hanii- arts had two points lo make: their section should be recognised in the title of ihe association, of lhe best papers of the session. His theme was "Methods of instruction iii ond the stultified conclusion was reached, or seemed to be reached that "beyond a teaching-agriculture." The burden of the certain point negro education *la pro. the paper was that we must abandon the notion that a farmer needs but little education. He i.eiicM- thoroughly in technical training but also in culture. "No education ■•an be too good for the man who is going to be a farmer," he said. lie had found, as teachers do everywhere, that as a class the agricultural students do less work in a given lime in physics and mathematics than their neighbors. The agricultural student nounced an element of discord to lb.- negro race." The section on horticulture held a long Session. The papers presented were strictly scientific Professor Card, of Nebraska;'showed bow much local factors influence BOIL MOISTURE. He said n half inch of rain would not soak in six inches. Alfalfa uses up the moisture quicker than cereals. Hot must lie trained to think as « ell as to do. \\ inds do not dry up the soil very mnch', but the damage is lo the plants themselves. Many trees on the plains perish from winter drouth as from Bummer drouth. In spring shallow rooted plants Poor text-books are better than good courses Of lectures. There has been too much originality and through it lack of system. Professor W. M.Hays, of Minnesota, in- are dried out by the wind. There is a terestcd all present by some instances of popular notion that salt helps land rc- practical work he was doing. He has his students Judge live stock: do laboratory work in dairying; buy, kill and dress meat and poultry for three hundred people,— students being detailed to lake charge of the meal house for a week at a time. Farmers arc made in the high- tain moisture. Experiments do not make it very Certain how much. The effect of wind-brakes will be tried. "\ I iiim'ici 1.1 ru.;. I'l-.-id,■nt Budd, of low a, who numbers aiming "boys" all ihe agriculture professors of Canada, ami about 30 ofthe most prominent in the Slates, spoke of crossing fruits. Th nolher" (i. *•. lhe furnishing pistil) gives the permanent qualities to ihe tree,—.Its power to resist frost and age— w hile Hi.' pollen gives the new qualities desired. S.i to hardy 1,'us- sian apple and cherry varieties, or lo northern pears, plums, and strawberries the delicious ilavor and fragrance "f southern fruits may be added. The l.utovskv cherry now ripe iii Colorado is one of President Budd's hybrids. It is as large as California cherries, is deep red and has good taste. As President Itiidd -lepped up lo a fruit stand and showed some friends that eberry a German gardener came up and said: "I raised those cherries. A man iu Iowa sent mc buds eight years ago." "I am th*-man" said President Budd. A oertain man in California is making *."iII,ikki per year out of hybrids, but President Bndd works pro bono publico. II mini l.osls | \ c vi | |.K. In lhc evening the general session was largely of business. Reports from States ami territories on tuberculosis iii oattle had been ordered a year ago and Were now heard. These reports showed that l"i Studs had taken action on ihe disease, providing for Hie destruction of diseased animals. The reports showed that frequently animals supposed to be affected were found not to be, and in such cases the cap-ass was returned to the owner with the full appraisal value of the anl- 11 al besides. In the morning of the third day, as usual,a committee .to thank everybody was appointed, and an Invitation to are" ception by the governors of I Colorado and Wyoming was accepted for '.i:.'.u p. m. All nominations of Ihe five sections were affirmed. Kol till 11a.m.did the regular program begin. A short paper was read urging uui- •formity in names in works on agriculture. Professor < 'ard, of Nebraska, spoke of methods. All agree that students need ; text books. In answer lo a qdestion 1'rof- fessor Card said lhat a greenhouse was **ne of the best tools to help the student in horticulture. MORE ABOUT sol j.s. Professor Hilgurd, "f California then gave a vc-ry learned address iiii -oils. He showed by charts where the alkali is, and told how it could be dealt with, lie takes a very hopeful view of alkali soils and says alkali is Inexhaustible. It is bad lo lei water stagnate on land. Evaporation increases alkali, and si ould be prevented. Constant ami deep cultivation prevents damage by alkali. In some cases where there is deep soil and lhe alkali is all on top it will pay to use the sera),er. and bodily remove six inches of the surface. (iflen gypsum add. ed to the soil will be serviceable. Gypsum forms the sulphate of soda, which is much less harmful than the carbonate. Common salt will enter a> beet and taint it where the sulphate will nol. Alkali once dealt with the land is relieved for good. si \ i.i-; or ci * t \ i-s, i-I iu i it i'ir. The section on horticulture had 27 top- lot I., discuss, i inly a few conld be taken op, and a committee was appointed i*> select a few subjects for next lime. The section appointed a committee to decide on a scale of points lo be used as a standard in judging garden products, Professor < 'ard. **f Nebraska, w as elected chairman for 1898. Professor Tourney, of Arisona, in a paper, called attention to the alarming decrease iu perennial grasses, in grazing countries. In Arizona, where onlv one per cent, of Ihe land is tilled, the grazing lands have been largely ruined by over stocking;-ind parte Of Nebraska and other- Stales have lost their native grasses. Stockmen used to graze one range dov, n. then drive long distances to new ranges: but now ihe question is how many cattle are. to graze one range. In lhe last general session a committee reported In favor of adopting the metric system of weights and measures, saying that now was the best lime, as the United states would never be in better idltion. But the mailer was laid on the table. A motion was carried to send a com mission abroad ro sir Dt Minn ri.i ritAi. methods and red agricultural leaching to a pedagogical form. Ai each session of the National Educational Association, some on*' theme predominates; as manual training, i-hild- study, co-ordination, etc. s<, in the sessions of the agricultural educators this time, lhe trend of all the papers was that students and farmers need uiore enlightenment. The farmer boy must lie willing to take a general education, and not try loo early to be a specialist. Several speakers were applauded when they staled thai the standard of studies should be raised iii agricultural colleges,and that farmers should be well enough educated to represent farmers in our State and National legislate e halls. ON IRRIGATION. Irrigation will doubtless receive much attention next year. The delegates were much impressed by the results of irrigation ln Colorado. And at one session the farmer-senator, Boyd, of Colorado, (who was made a member of the Association), gave a telling objee I lesson by introducing two stools of oats, one four feet high and lhe oilier about ls inches. The first w as an irrigation specimen, the oilier had only rain. Both had grown on Ihe same soil, within flve feel of each other. This Illustration was the more effective because the rainfall here has been unusually large. Thus, iu Colorado, with irrigation, lu bushels of wheat can i.e raised as easily, and with much more regularity than mi bushels In eastern Slates where there is not irrigation. The strawberries for sale iu abundance, at flve cents per quart, on the streets ,*r Denver, were objects of frequent comment—ordinary berries being larger than lhe choicest ones that appear preserved at fairs jn some other States. The Russian thistle was set In quite a new light, by this convention. Professor Bolley, of North Dakota, regards the Russian thistle as the worst of western weeds, but not so frightfully danger*.us as it is usually regarded. II thrives only iu dry, poof soil, ii cannot he exterminated, but, like other w ceils, it cannot lie kept down. President Budd, of Iowa, remarked thai in lliissia, he found lhe mustard plant more an enemy than the thistle. s.i. Denver, Col. Psrcy it. Burkkt. UNCLE SAM SHUTS DOWN ON FREE SEEDS. A Washington dispatch **f .inly -m says; "Th*' seed division of the Agricultural Department will be abolished on October i. Secretary Morton has issued an order staling that the practice of distributing seed broadcast at Governmental expense will be discontinued during the fiscal year 1896 and 1886, and thai the services of the employes engaged ill that work will not be required after October _. Accordingly Mathias E. I'agin, of Illinois, chief of the Division at $_VKKI a year and the entire force of employes, will be dropped from Hi*- rolls. "Secretary Morton's action la baaed mi a recent decision ot Mr. Olney, then Attorney-General, regarding the class of seed purchased by the department, The latter held in effect that the Secretary of Agriculture was empowered lo purchase only those seed described in Section :>_.7 of the revised statutes, viz.: Rare and uncommon to the country or such as can bc made more profitable by frcipient changes from one part of our country to another." This order is not much to be regretted. The seeds sent OUt have not usually been better than those furnished by the seedsmen, and often they were quite inferior. |
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