Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-19
COTTON SCHOOL TO T.
Be HELD At ATHENS.
Third Annual Session to Be Con-
Quoted by State Agricultural
College Jan. 8 to 14-Splendid
Course of Study.

Course of Study.
The third annual session of the cotton
school of the State College of Agriculture
will be held at Athens, Ca, on January
3-14. The purpose of the cotton school
is to assist the farmers of Georgia in Sc
curing essential information concerning
their business, and the forthcoming ses-
sions are expected to be attended by the
largest assemblage of farmers ever pres
ent.
The course of instruction consists of
lectures on the subjects of soils, fertiliz-
ers, feeding stuffs and improved farm
machinery. The sessions will be held in
the new agricultural hall of the state col
lege, which has been enlarged, is admir-
ably lighted and heated and equipped
with special laboratories and class rooms.
No less than IS experts will constitute
the special staff of instructors engaged
to conduct the school; and in addition to
the regular course of instruction farmers
who attend the sessions will have daily
opportunity ito consul these men on inn
portant farming questions.
COLLEGE WELL EQUIPPED.
The College of Agriculture is better
prepared than ever before to conduct a
cotton school The labratory equipment
has been materially enlarged during the
past year, and much demonstration work
hitherto impossible because of a lack of
equipment will be included in the course
of instruction. In addition to these splen-
did laboratory facilities, a great mass of
data has been accumulated from the DEM
onstration field, and will be employed to
practical advantage.
One of the most interesting and valu-
able features of the course OF instruction
will be daily practice In cotton grading.
This work has been so arranged as to
give every farmer who attends the school
a working knowledge of cotton grades, so
that he can sell his product to the very
best advantage. 1t is not intended to
make expert cotton graders of the men
who pay attention to this feature of the
course, but to furnish them with the es-
sential information they should have con-
corning the handling and preparation of
their cotton fiber. But for those who de-
sire fuller instruction and practice, a
special course of 80 to so days has been
provided
OUTLINE OF COURSE.
Following is a brief outline of the
course of instruction, and by glancing
through it one can readily gather some
thing Of the nature and scope of the
work.
Ten lectures on the soil; ten lectures on
fertilizers, including a discussion of the
elements OF plant food, and methods of
purchasing both mixed and unmixed fer
tilizers; five lectures on the cotton plant
tve lectures on cotton cultivation includ-
ing discussion of methods whereby
farmers may successfully improve both
their land and their crops; five lectures
on cotton diseases, including a discussion
of the most dangerous diseases that at
tack the cotton plant, their causes so
far as known, and the best methods of
combating them; five lectures on cotton
insects, including a discussion of the
characteristics of depredatory insects and
the best methods of exterminating them;
five lectures on cotton feeding by-pro
ducts; ave lectures On cotton machinery;
the instruction IN cotton grading; three
A9etuTns on cottSa warehoussaS: q study
eff the oAa9@es.= Es6 FOaftv ct OOttsa
seed; and serteS Of sPeeial lectures at
night for the students in the Agricultural
college proper and the cotton school.
EVERY FARMER INTERESTED.
If for no other reason, It is imperative
that every farmer who can possibly ar
range his plans to that end, attend this
school I'm order to learn thoroughly the
principles of plant breeding and selec-
ton, more about crop rotation and ferti-
lizers. and how to handle and utilize lint
cotton to the best advantage. For 1t is
estimated that the boil weevil will reach
Georgia in five or six years.
Except a registration fee of 81, the
Cotton school will be free. Expenses in
Athens may be literally estimated at 70
cents to 81 per day. So it will be seen
that the total cost of attending the ses-
sions will hardly exceed $35, even for
those of the farmers who come from the
most distant sections of the state.
A complete printed set of lectures that
constitute the course of instruction will,
be given to every farmer who attends
the school, and these make up concise
elementary textbook on a variety of
agricultural topics which will be splendid
reference books to take home.
Four DAYS after the cotton school
closes, the Farmers conference will open,
It's dates being January 1874. The pur-
pose of this meeting is to bring those
concerned in the Improvement Of agricul-
tural practice together for discussion
of the problems in which they are inter
ested: and, like the Cotton school, the
conference will be largely attended.
Full and complete information regard
ing both the Cotton school and the Farm
ers' conference may be secured from Pres
ldent Andrew NJ. Soule, of the Agrleul-
tural college.