NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1173

SENATE BILL 277

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A RESEARCH STATION EMPHASIZING SWEET POTATOES, VEGETABLE CROPS, AND SMALL FRUITS TO SERVE NORTH CAROLINA, AND TO BE LOCATED IN ONE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES NAMED HEREIN.

WHEREAS, the economy of North Carolina is based largely upon agriculture, with sweet potatoes and other vegetable crops and small fruits being major enterprises; and

WHEREAS, the Coastal Plains Vegetable Research Station at Faison was established in 1949 on a 45 acre rented tract of land and this research station is not of sufficient size to permit the conduct of some investigations that should be carried out in this important sweet potato and vegetable producing area and is not possible to conduct certain kinds of work on rented land; and

WHEREAS, a more complete and productive research program can be conducted for North Carolina by purchasing new lands and developing new facilities thereon somewhere in the southeastern part of North Carolina and by terminating the lease on the Coastal Plain Vegetable Research Station at Faison; and

WHEREAS, these research activities in sweet potatoes, vegetable crops, and small fruits in North Carolina will make possible an expanded program with these enterprises so important to the economy of this State and to the future of the food supply of this country;

NOW, THEREFORE,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State of North Carolina to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, in addition to all other sums, the sum of two hundred fifty-six thousand and one hundred dollars ($256,100.00) for the general purposes set forth in the preamble to this Act and for the specific purposes of providing capital items (land and facilities) for a new research station for Southeastern North Carolina to be located in either one of the following counties: Duplin, Onslow, Pender, Sampson or Wayne, according to the following schedule:

NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

COASTAL PLAIN RESEARCH STATION FOR SWEET

POTATOES, VEGETABLES, AND SMALL FRUITS.

Land (250 acres) 250 @ $500................................................                            $125,000

Office Building.........................................................................     $ 30,000

Implement shed, shop..............................................................        16,000

Foreman's dwelling..................................................................        18,000

Worker's dwellings (2).............................................................        28,500

Fertilizer & Pesticide storage....................................................        14,000

Land development...................................................................        18,600

Well & Water system..............................................................          6,000

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TOTAL.......................................................................    $131,100         $125,000

GRAND TOTAL....................................................................    $256,100

The funds herein appropriated if not expended by the Department of Agriculture during the biennium of 1969-1971, shall not revert to the General Fund of the State but remain available for the purposes herein provided.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1969.