Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-10
AGRICULTURAL TRAIN is
WORTH APPROPRIATION
Through Extension Work
5000 Boys and Girls Are
Now Studying Progressive
Farming - As an Encour-.
agement, School Is Offering
Over $1,000 Worth of
Prizes

ATHENS. Ca. Oct. 6.-At it's last ses-
sion, the Georgia legislature appro-
priated $4,000 to the Georgia State
College OF Agriculture, This money Is
not being spent merely for the benefit
Of the students. Instead, II is being
devoted 90 educational work among
farmers. to research, and to improve
ment of crops.
1t has been said that the school trav-'
els For sixty days. during the past
summer. body of the facuity--Dr. Soul
has called them agricultural Drum
meres--toured the state with the dis
tinct purpose OF telling the people how
10 grow crops. They addressed exactfsr
1ex meetings aggrepating $4,000 or ths
states most e1terprising farmers. II is
very likely that these men alone got
$4,000 worth OF benefit out of the lec-
lures. $3.50
Another feature of the so-called ex-
tension work is the Introduction Of ag-
rfct1ltural courses in the states lower
schools In accomplishing this end. the
college is making tn first SUCCESSFUL
attempt OF this kind in southern his
tory. In connection with this work
an oxganization. somewhat similar 90
the boy scout, system. has sffec TED
about 5000 boys and iris m
Georgia who are now studying progress
sive farming in their CLUB as we'll as
their class rooms To encourage them.
the school has secured the offering OF
over a thousand dollars worth of
prizes for contests in good crop pro-.
duction which are held under its au-
spices.
The institution now has a large ex-
hibit In farming and stock-raising at
the state fair in Macon; an education
in itself to all who sc il.
The school. too is Always open to
others besides its regular students,
Hundreds of farmers visit Athens from
time 10 time, TO get an idea of how to
work their Iands-as the college does it's
own In January there is special
snort course IN cotton culture offered
to all those farmers who will attend.
For all this Extension work there
is no charge Whatsoever The school
travels, but 1t costs money TO travel
that is one reason why 1T will be able
70 travel more extensively after jan
uary 1. when the Appropriation first
goes into effect. There are now five
men ION the road" after January there
will be ten.
RESEARCH DEPARTMENT.
Perhaps the greatest value of the
school TO the farmers of this state lies
an the research and experimentation
that il is carrying on. Soil analyza-
ton is a large branch of sucn labor,
and after January / il Will form a still.
greater part OF the Institutions scope,
To make this possible. the fellowship
system is to be instituted in the coll
lege. The attendance upon the school
has ben increased 10 such an extent
as to require the addition of several
new men to the faculty. Fellowships
will therefore be extended to ten men.
who are. I'm return for their position.
TO give themselves up, largely, to the
study Of soil conditions in the state.
The value OF their labors should prove
inealculable.
1t might be said here that. besides
the fellows, ten more members will be
added to the present staff of the school.
which numbers about 20 instructors.
Experiments are also made in breed
Gng live stock
But neither of these branches Of the
college labor IL hardly so important as
the work OF its cotton school The Geor-
G!a State College OF Agriculture offers
the only noteworthy course in cotton
cultivation in the south, and is cultivat-
tag. In connection with this work, new
strains of cotton that promise to be the
RrSAber or less salvation of the Georgia
Sagmsr against cotton diseases and cot
ton kneSe's. The. school offers a course
of stlLsy in cotton hybrids-probably the
ozly cnR Of its kird to be found,
A strain Of cotton has been originated