Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-23
SUMNER SCHOOL IN COTTON
GRADING

GRADING
The Georgia State College of Agri-
cultural is eminently practical in its
work. One of the recent evidences of
this is the establishment of a summer
school in cotton grading. The cir
cular that has been sent out telling OF
this new departure is full of interest.
opening, as the school does, new
field for ambitious young men to
place themselves in a position for prof
liable employment with every prospect
of future advancement The circular
question says:
The cotton warehouses and mills
are beginning to demand expert train
ing as a testimonial to be filed with
application for CHASING and buying
cotton. These organizations are wide
awake to the importance of having the
best available knowledge on grading
in order to render efficient service,
and they interest themselves in a
mans application in proportion to his
training.
If there is anything to be known
about the subject, it can be taught.
Much is know about the different
grades of cotton from the lowest to
he highest. and practically all the
defects can be pointed out from grade
to grade, beginning with fair and go
ing down to ordinary.
knowledge of cotton CHASING has
long been considered a special gift,
the man who knew nothing of the sub
iect looking upon the man who did as
a kind of genius. All could see thai
ne man had white, clean cotton, and
another, dark, trashy cotton, but to as
sociate this with grade names and
prices was the puzzling thing to the
farmer. This attitude towards the
iubject no longer prevails. The grader
has shared his knowledge with educa-
tors, and the people are getting the
benefit. Many farmers now know
whether their cotton is middling or
above or below middling, and the price
Of middling is printed in almost every
daily and many weekly papers.
The place of the agricultural COL
leges is partly that of training men to
develop the natural resources, and to
intelligently direct the manufacture
and commerce of a state and a people
Fince cotton plays such large part
in the commerce of the world, the cot
ton communities should spare no
means to develop the study of cotton.
1t takes a great many people to han
die and sample the millions of bales
IF cotton annually put on the market.
The samplers need special training il
the science of grades and grading.
Seeing the demands for instruction
as the Georgia State College of Agri-
culture has undertaken to give COM
lete course of instruction in the art
and science of grading, CHASING or
sampling of cotton, and has prepared
many hundred samples of the different
GRADES for class practice. The sum-
mer session of this school in grading
will be during the sessions of the
University Summer School, July l to
August 8, 1912, so students may take
other courses of study in connection
with the course in grading, if they de-
sire to do so. Reduced rates will
probably be made by the railroads. In
1uire of your local ticket agent for
information on this point.
"The course lasts about thirty days
and the class will be met twice daily,
from HOO to 1900 a. M, and from
800 to 500 p. M, but the laboratory
III be open fer practice work from
900 a. m. to $500 p. m. daily. The
cost of registration is one dollar
THE lectures will be on the tech
nical and scientific aspects of grades
and grading, the organization of ware
houses, warehousing, and the handling
and disposing of the cotton crop
Methods of cultivating and improving
cotton by selection and plant breeding
will be amply illustrated by the worb
N progress in the demonstration
field "