Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-19

Tor the college, year l9GU-l5Zl To-
tailed LIS. More than 5000 indi-
viduals have received instruction in
| the past fifteen years. The resident
| teaching and extension staff now
numbers $50 individuals. There are
| los county agricultural agents and
| 20 county home economics agents.
Degree courses have been estab-
lished in agriculture, forestry, vet
Urinary medicine, and home econom-
| les. High standards of work have
been maintained and the institution
enjoys both a national and interna-
tional reputation.
The student body is representative
| of the whole state and they have
done much to raise Georgia to the
position of leadership she now occu-
| pies along agricultural lines.
The college was the first institu-
| ton in the south to establish extern
sion work and to take the entire
state for a campus. Through these
agents the college is constantly in
touch with more than 100000 farm
ers and farm wives. Last year more
than $4,000 Boys and girls were en-
rolled in the club movement, which
has revolutionized corn and swine
ed the canning industry and many
of the domestic arts on a firm foun-
dation in thousands of rural homes.
Attention is focused on the boys
and girls club work by reason of
the fact that last year friends do
mated more than 100000 for prizes
and many Of these prizes were free
scholarships to the college of agri-
culture.
Farmers meetings organized by
the college in the past fifteen years
have been attended by more than
100000 people. Three hundred and
two publications containing $780,
900 pages have been issued. Aid has
been rendered farmers in disposing
of $24,427,S35 worth Of farm prod
ucts.
Scientific research work worth
millions of dollars in the aggregate
to the farms of Georgia has been
done by the Georgia State College
of Agriculture. More than million
and half acres Of land have been
surveyed, the soil types determined
and mapped. All Of these types
have been analysed chemically and
recommendation for their economic
|
in bulletin form.
The college of agriculture also
originated College No. l cotton,
which gave the highest yield of any
variety on test for the five-year av-
erage, 1915 to 1919, at the college.
The earliness of this variety makes
it especially valuable for growth I'M
der boil weeVil conditions. EXten'
sive scientific research on the prob
lem of increasing the oil content in
cotton seed has been conducted. A
great deal of attention has been
! given to the improvement and de.
velopment of the live stock interests
Of Georgia. During the last few
years the breeders of the state have
developed and exhibited a number
of animals at the International Live
Stock exposition, which won the
highest possible honors.
The college has steadily developed
it's program of instruction in home
making. In 1909, was held the first
conference of farm women, and a
series of lectures in agriculture was
given to a group of teachers from
the State Normal school faculty en-
gagged in training rural teachers. In
1911, extension work for women and
girls was formally organized and
annual short courses Instituted. In
1918, the Georgia State College of
Agriculture established the first de-
gree course for women to be Of
fered by any state institution in
Georgia. The B. S. degree with
major in home economics is de-
signed to train leaders for extern
sion positions in home economics, for
teachers of vocational and other
high schools and colleges, for work
ers in institutional management
and for editorial positions and for
| general training in home making.
The twenty-five women who have
received this degree occupy posi-
lions of leadership in the south.
Seven of these are specialists, or
supervising agents in extension
work for women in Georgia, anoth-
err is state supervisor of vocational
education in Virginia ana another a
state specialist in extension work
in Virginia: Eight of these gradu-
ates are in charge of vocational
home economics in the federal aided
schools in Georgia, Alabama and
North Carolina.
In addition to developing degree
courses, this institution has estab-
| lished intensive short courses Civ
| ing advanced college credit for the
training of workers in service.
| These are given during the sum-
mer school and the two winter
short courses. In three years, 296
graduates Of normal schools and
other junior colleges have attended
these courses, which have directly
increased the efficiency Of home
economics leaders of the state.
Through the wise management of
the board of trustees, a commodious
and well equipped Woman's build
ing, containing residential quarters
for women and modern laboratories
| for technical instruction., has beNn
presented to the university without
cost to the state. The furnishings
and equipment for the Woman's
building are, in large measure, the
| gift Of women's organizations of
Georgia.
The institution has undertaken to
function along the following lines
First, to give service to everyone.
Second, to take the state for a
campus. Third, to train the neces.
sary vocational leaders in agricul
ture, home economics and the asso.
ciated industries. Fourth, to give
agriculture the status of a profes.
sion. Fifth, to inaugurate an agri.
cultural policy adapted to the spe
cific needs of the state. Sixth, to
establish a live stock development
program commensurate with our
needs. Seventh, to promote an in
terest in soil conservation and soil
building. Eighth, to encourage the
use of commercial fertilizers on a
basis of soil and crop needs. Ninth,
to demonstrate the Importance and
value of the selection and planting
of good seed. Tenth, to institute a
pasture building campaign Of state.
wide proportions. Eleventh, to pro-
mulgate and support a marketing
policy based on sound educational