Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, September 19, 1916, Page 5, Image 5
Agricultural akd SIKCESSrUL JAWING E .A Andrew M. Joule i Thu department will cheerfully enceavor to furnish any information Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M Soule, resident State Agri cultural College. Athna Ga Growing Winter Wheat in the South Realism* th* importance of encour aging the cultivation of winter wheat, the college of agriculture has been con ducting for several years past variety tests at Athens. Ashburn and Quitman. Investigations have also been started with the Idea of securing varieties bet ter adapted to local conditions and which are earlier hardier and mare re sistant to disease while producing a well devtioped berry of fine quality. It is certain that much still remains to be •*certalned with reference to the best method of cultivation to prnctica and the proper rotation of crops to estab lish. Os course, the fertiliser side of the problem also needs to >*e carefully investigattd. There is only one serious drawback to the cultivation of wheat io the southeastern states, and that is due to the fact that while there is an abundant rainfall, it is often not well distributed, hence the crop sometimes suffers from drought when approaching maturity. This difficulty can be ov ercome to a considerable degree by the development through selection of early ; maturing strains and the management of the land in such a manner as to in crease its supply of vegetable matter, and therefore enable it to absorb and hold a greater amount of" the water falling as rain than at present. There is an unusually long growing season in the southeastern states, varying from -26 days at Athens to 247 days at Ash burn. The rainfall at the different sta tions varies from fifty to fifty-two inch es. The precipitation during the grow ing season varies from twenty-six to I thirty-three inches, hence if the water ia properly conserved through a Ju dicious rotation of crops and the pro per managemtnt of the land there should be an abundance of this element to insure the development of profitable crops of wheat, certainly in the Pied mont section of the states in question. Wheat' is subject to attack by some diseases and these at times have proven very troublesome. Rust is among the most destructive of the diseases to which this cereal is subject. The suc cess which has been attained in devel oping rust proof oats, however, leads to the belief that through persistent ef* forts strains of wheat as strongly re sistant to this trouble can also be ob tained. It is proper to state that the varie ties cultivated at Athens were grown on what is known as the cecil clay. This soil Is derived from the weather ing of granites, gnisses and schists. The drainage of this class of soils is a little slow and the subsoils arg some what heavy. The land is rolling in na ture and can be readily improved by deep plowing and the turning under of green crops. At Ashburn the test plats lie wholly within what is known as the coastal plains region. The soil type is identified as the Tifton sandy loam, and is properly regarded as one of the best crop producing soils in that sec tion of the state. The natural drain age of this land is excellent. At Quit man the substation lies also tn the coastal plains area. though the soil here is of sedimentary character. It Is slightly rolling and possesses good drainage Essentially the same meth od of management were used at all of the places indicated, the soil being broken to a good depth and a fine seed bed prepared. At all places the inten tion is to practice a three-years’ ro tation In which cotton, corn and small grain is followed by cow peas. Some variation in the method of cropping has been necessary but in general this rotation will be followed. By this plan small grain occupies the land only once in three years, and as It follows corn the ground is generally in such condi tion that a good seed bed can be pre pared. In this rotation the plan is to turn under the cow peas as green ma nure, and as far as possible, a cover! crop of rye or hairy vetch is usually] seeded in the cotton as well as a soil* builder. Up to the present time the' varieties chiefly grown belong to what I are known as the soft or semi-hard: winter group. When practical the grain is sown with a drill. It has not been possible however, to secure an im plement of this character at the differ ent points indicated. As a rule, the seeding ia done at the rate of four pecks per acre. Tn preparing the land different meth ods of practice have been followed. As a general rule, diowever. double disk ing has proven fairly satisfactory, but much depends on the season and the! condition of the ground The plan is I Mogul 8-16 —A Real Kerosene Tractor Sells for $725 Cash f. o. b. Chicago XITHEN you b.y a tractor, look beyond the ’ price. It is not the price a man pays for a tractor which is of the most importance, but what its power costs. A Mogul 8-16 burning kerosene, in 5,000 hours of work, will save more than its original price over the cost of the same power produced by a gasoline tractor. Remember, the 8-i6 is a real kerosene tractor, planned and built originally for using this cheap, plentiful fuel. Price is of minor importance compared with Mogul 8-16 saving. It is our policy to sell the Mogul 8-16 at the lowest possible price, always maintaining Mogul quality, though nowadays some of the paterials are almost unobtainable even at an advance in price of from 50 to 100 per cent over the prices of a few months ago. 5725 cash f. o. b. Chicago is the lowest price at which Mogul B*l6 can be sold. Orders placed at once will stand the best chance of being filled without delay. See the Mogul 8-16 dealer or write us for the story of kerosene before you buy any tractor. International Harvester Company of America m CHICAGO *-*“* USA (O CbarayiM Dceriag McCanaick Milwaakca Osboras Placa to use 400 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds of muriate of potash per acre. The war. of course, has Inter fered with the use of potash rations to some extent. After the ground has been disked it is harrowed with a spike I tooth harrow and firmed with a roller. and the seeding done in open furrows or by broadcasting. In the spring of the year 100 pounds of sulphate of ammonia has been applied per acre. The wheat is harvested by the usual methods which would naturally be prac ticed on every farm. The yield of some of the more im portant varieties tested in Athens is recorded below. It appears that as a result of two years' work Deitz Amber made an average yield of 28.7 bushels per acre; Georgia Red. 28.3 bushels; Fulcaster, 17.4 bushels; Australian Red, 27.1 bushels: Rtd May, 26.7 bushels; Blue Stem. 26.6 bushels: Mammoth Red. 26.6 bushels; Fultz. 25.9 bushels; Klondike. 25.7 bushels; Fishhead. 25.4 bushels, and Bearded Purple Straw. 54.3 bushels. These must be regarded i as gaad yields and wherever they can be approximated the cultivation of wheat as a winter cover crop and the production of grain for bread can be practiced to advantage. The yields obtained from some of the leading varieties at Ashburn are as fol lows: Blue Stein. 19.6 bushels; Georgia Red. 19.6 bushels; Red May, 18.3 bushels; Australian Red. 15.8 bushels: Deitz Am ber. 14.9 bushels; Fultz, .13.7 bushels; Fishhead. 13.3 bushels; Klondike. 12.1 bushels; Mammoth Red, 11.7 bushels; Fulcaster. 11.7 bushles. These yields are not nearly so good as those obtained on the cecil clay typical of the Pied mont area, and yet a number of these varieties could be grown to advantage on the Tifton sandy loam under sea sonal and soil conditions similar to those obtaining at Ashburn with good ad vantage. There is ample opportunity in that section for the harvesting of the crop in time to permit of the replanting of the ground to cowpeas. The weight of the wheat grown at Ashburn is not quite so good as that grown at Athens. This is due possibly to the tenacity with which red clay soils absorb and hold water, thereby enabling them to supply some of this element to the crop dur ing the latter stages of its development and insuring its more complete and per fect maturity. The yields obtained at Quitman where this work has only been carried on one year were not satisfactory, but it would not be fair to draw any conclusion from a test covering only one year. Blue Stem made the highest yield of any variety, namely 6.7 bushels. Cultivating wheat on this basts would, of course, not be profitable. Possibly when these soils • are improved and a better season experi enced. the yields will be considerably In creased. Judging from the bare facts as presented, however, the most profits-' ble section of the southeastern states j in which to cultivate wheat would ap pear to be the Piedmont area, though: the prospect for the profitable cultlva-1 tion of wheat on the Tifton sandy loam, a soil quite characteristic of many parts' of the coastal plains region, promises well. Moreover, it is important to re- ’ member that through selection and : breeding it will more than likely be possible to develop strains much bet ter adapted for cultivation in the south-1 ern part of the territory under discus-1 sion than are now available. Os course,; those who have studied the situation realize that the whole question of plant; breeding has been greviously neglect ed. and it is impossible, therefore, to I even approximate what it may be pos- ] sible to accomplish in the way of se-, curing improved strains through the systematic selection and development of varieties adapted to the different cli ; matic and soil areas of the cotton i states. IWDUCIWG 20 FEB CENT CBEAM TO WHIP A. I- !>.. Andersonville. Ga.. writes: We have hern making * 20 per cent cream for market, but have bad many .ouipUinta lately about the cream not whipping. At times I have not had any made up and j would shii that which • ame directly from the separate, about thirty per cent. They I ■ laim this is all right. I test**d a sample they had been Imying and found it ran 28 ‘ |ei rent and they were buying it for 20 per cent. Will ar IS or 20 per ent cream all whip up ami if so. what do you think I my trouble is? My cream l« shipped three j ■lays old ami is always tested with the ' Babcock test ami redm-ed with whole milk. i i Difficulty is often experienced in mak-! ing a 2® per cent cream whip aatisfac-. IHE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1916. torily. especially when it is made from fresh milk and sent out as separated without being thoroughly chilled and cooled. If you will handle your milk so as to cool it and aerate it and get the animal odor out of it. then tun it through a separator and chill it by reducing to a temperature of about 40 degrees, and hold the cream for twenty-four hours befoge distributing it, 1 think you will find that the cream will whip satis factorily. The higher per cent of fat In cream within certain limits, the easier it will Whip. In some instances we have had customers \who desire a cream running higher than 20 per cent in fa*, but of course they are willing to pay a little more for it. as naturally, it was worth about half more than the 20 per cent cream. When a man is selling a 28 per cent cream under the impression that he is selling a 20 per cent cream, he is not handling his busi ness with much skill or care, nor has he adjusted his separator with any de gree of accuracy. One should be able to adjust the separator so as to make a practically uniform cream from his own herd >f cows, as an average of what the herd can do can easily be determin ed by the Babcock test. We would prefer to make a uniform quality of cream running 20 per cent rather than to make a richer cream and reduce it to 20 per cent through use of whole milk. NEED OF A PROPERLY ADJUSTED RATION. E. D. E.. Dublin. Ga., writes: 1 would like to know what is the trouble with my brood sow. She ran hardly walk. The trouble seems to be hi her legs. Her ap petite ia good. Would appreciate receiving a remedy for the trouble. The trouble with your hogs is prob ably due to the fact that you are not giving them a sufficient amount of food or providing them with the exercise to which they are properly entitled. I suggest that you give the following mix ture to your hogs: wood charcoal, 1 pound; sulphur, 1 pound; sodium chlo ride. 2 pounds; sodium bicarbonate. 2 pounds; sodium hyposulphate, 2 pounds; sodium suphate. 1 pound, and antimony sulphate. 1 pound. These ingredients should be thoroughly mixed together. The dose is a large tablespoonful for each two hundred pounds weight of hogs to be treated. Administer once daily, mixing with sweet milk or in a gruel or slopped feed which you may use. If you are using corn alone .discon tinue this practice. Brood sows espe cially need something to build up bone and tissue and to stimulate milk produc tion. Corn by itself is not satisfactory for this purpose. A mixture of one-half corn and one-half shorts will be prefer able. We would prefer to feed shorts exclusively for a while. We would pro vide the sow with as much green food as possible and afford her a range on which to graze. A Bermuda sod will an swer very well for this purpose. Sup plemental grazing crops should be pro vided such as cowpea*, soy beans and peanuts. The affected parts if there is much soreness evidenced, may be rub bed with a good soothing lotion such as may be made from 2 ounces of laudanum, 1 ounce of aconite tincture and 5 ounces of soap liniment. This is an excellent material to use for reliev ing pain and soreness. It will not blis ter. * WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR FOUNDER. H L O KUrimmee, Fla., writes: I have a nisre that was water •«'? eral month. ago. anil it settled in her feet. Ther are somewhat better, but are still a dreadful condition. Is there anything that ran be done to cause the feet to grow back as they should be? Founder is a difficult disease to treat and as the case about which you write has existed for several months, it has probably now assumed a chronic form. Horses suffering from this disease should have the shoes remoed and be placed in the most comfortable quarters possible. Tou might try putting the horse in a stall with a clay floor. The ■ feet may be soaked in a tub of water for two hours twice daily, wiped dry and oiled wtih a dressing prepared by melting together 1 ounce of turpentine, 1 ounce of pine tar, 2 ounces of beeswax i and 4 ounces of fish oil. This mixture should be applied with a brush twice daily to all parts of the hoof. In the absence of the hoof dressing, any good oil or glycerine may be used. Horses that are especially tender footed are i sometimes benefited by shoeing broad webbed bar shoes with rubber | heel pads beneath. Light blisters ap plied to the coronets once in four weeks 1 may be beneficial. • • A VALUABLE GRASS FOR GEOR GIA. A. J.. Riceboro. Ga.. writes: 1 would like to know what the enclose! sample of graaa ia. 1 am afraid it Is Johnson grass. Will millet mature if sown now? The sample of grass enclosed is what is known as barnyard grass. Its scien tific name is Panicum crus-galli. It is a coarse and leafy annual one to four feet high It makes a rank growth and i is common in rich cultivated lands, oc i curring frequently in the vicinity of dwellings. It seeds freely and makes a rapid growth during the summer and yields abundantly on bottom lands. If properly cured it often makes a good hay from land which but for the sponta neous growth of this grass would have yielded the farmer nothing. In many sections, however, barnyard gras* is re- I garded as a weed. It is not related to Johnson grass, however, and is not difficult to control j nor eradicate. It is now too /late in our judgment i to sow millet with the idea of cutting it for hay this year.. A. G. P.. Alabama City, route 1. Alabama, advises that he ha« a heifer one and a half rears old with only two teats and wants | my advice as to whether to retain her tot a milk row. Mal-shaped udders are not at all un common. Where the heifer has only two teats she will not produce as much , milk as she would have done with the four. However, she will produce much more than half the amount. As arbi-! trarv amount I should expect the heifer ■ with two teats to produce about three-1 fourths as much milk as would be given , if she had a perfectly fqrmed udder. Unless the owner knows that this heifer, comes of exceptionally good producing ancestry I should not advise him to re- ( tain her as a milk cow. a • a THE CAUSE AND TREATMENT OF MANGE. C. E. M., Montezuma. Ga.. writes: 1 have a bog with mange. He is scaly and his I hair is rubbing off in spots. His appetite ia good, but he does not tlbrive. Please give me a remedy. Mange is due to a parasite which causes an Irritation of the skin. Each domestic animal has its own species of mange mite. This trouble rarely occurs, however, except on dogs and cats. if you satisfied, however, that your animal is affected with mange proceed as fol lows: Isolate him from any other hog.i you may own. Clip the hair off the as-1 fected regions. Next apply green soap I which you can secure at any drug store | and allow to remain for about five hours. Next wash off the soap with warm wa ter. A large number of scabs and scurf; will be removed successfully by this practice. Then wipe dry and rub the following thoroughly into the skin: creo lin 1 ounce, flower of culphur 1 ounce, oil of tar 1 ounce, lard or vaseline 8 j ounces. Mix these ingredients thor oughly together and apply once dally for three or four days. Withhold for a j week and then apply again. Whitewash ; all quarters and rubbing posts and dis I infect the pens thoroughly, using one [ of the coal tar HOME Conductedßy I tri iffi 'rTßa —, r . PBXiBIDjjjNT WlhUOa ANU Taxi SUF- II FBAGISTS. e The National American Woman Sus ” frage association, which met in Atlantic * City, last week, invited President Wll j son to address them, ana the newspa /, pers report great enthusiasm when he e told them he "was glad to come and was s going to tight with them and for them.” e Dr. Anna Howard Show, former presi r dent of the society, has given a glow- - ing account of his speech, and says s some very kind words of the speaker. In this good year 1916 every presiden e tial candidate (at least four of them) a have come out in strong words for n women voters. It was a long step in t advance and more than the most san- - guine of suffragists had expected to see. j The Democrats at the St. Ixnrts con s vention endorsed votes for women by , 888 1-2 votes, with only 180 1-2 in the t negative. Some of these affirmative e votes came from the southern states. President Wilsons endorsement and his approval of suffrage for women will > have great effect in the south. I append Dr. Shaw’s published ac count of Mr. Wilson’s visit to the con vention : (From a Staff Correspondent of the World.) ATLANTIC CITY, N. .1.. Sept. 9. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president emer itus of the National American Woman Suffrage association praised President Wilson’s speech of last night and rapped sharply the Congressional Union because 1 of its stand against Mr. Wilson and the Democrats, in an interview today. Dr. Shaw perhaps exerts more influ ence over the votes-for-women enthusi asts throughout the country than any other individual woman. She said: •‘President Wilson’s speech was won derful. It showed how the thoughts of suffrage have grown in the minds of men and how much respect the president has for our intelligence. “If the president had come out for the federal amendment, as many per sons expected he would, we would have known that it was a play for votes. The whole speech was delightful because it didn’t play up votes in any way. “I am not a Democrat and’l feel grate ful that the president knew that we couldn't be fooled by any political chi canery. He promised everything that he could carry out. He might have prom ised a lot more, but we would have known that he couldn't have carried it out. The president made us as clear a promise as a man ever made, and, know ing that President Wilson keeps his promises, I know he meant this one." Dr. Shaw was asked if the action of Charles Evans Hughes In personally in dorsing the federal amendment would cause many Suffragists to campaign for him. “Alas.” she said, “the men steering the Republican party and Mr. Hughes’ campaign are Lodge and Penrose and men of that type, and they are the bit terest enemies Suffrage has. If they were able to control affairs, in the event of Mr. Hughes’ election, the cause of Suffrage will be hopeless. If Mr. Hughes is able to control them the cause of Suffrage will be bright. It must be re membered in .this connection that when Mr. Hughes was governor of New York he couldn't control the bosses, though the bosses couldn't control him. “The Republicans didn’t do anything for us in forty-five years. They were a stone wall. We have had more Suf frage legislation in congress in the last three years than we have had in the last fifty. J wouldn’t say, myself that, this is because the Democrats have been kindlier disposed than the Republicans. I would say it was because we have had twelve Suffrage states to use as a pusher in congress. I simply want to point out that no more is to be expected from Republicans so far as Suffrage legislation is concerned than may be ex pected from Democrats.” LIFE. BY BRYAN WALLER PROCTER. (1787—1874 ). We are born; we laugh; we weep; We love; we droop: we die! Ah! wherefore do we laugh or weep? Why do we live, or die? Who knows that secret deep? Alas, not I! Why doth the violet spring Unseen by human eye Why do the radiant seasons bring Sweet thoughts that quickly fly? Why* do our fond hearts cling To things that die? We toil—through pain and wrong; We fight—and fly; We love; we lose; and then, ere long. Stone-dead we lie. O life! is all thy song “Endure and—die?” French Sloops Sunk (By Asso'-iatefi Ptrgg.) ST. MALO. France. Sept. 16. —Two French sloops, the Ariel and the Jeune Union, have been sunk by German sub marines. The crews were saved. nude to ZF your measure, in the | latest If style, would you be will- vj[ [lng to w keep and wear it, show I It to your friends and let them see our IWiMi fA beautiful samples and dashing new jtfflwLjfcH I styles? Could you use $5.00 a day for a little spare time? Perhaps I can offer you sqß a steady job. 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A.Camidteir ,i brilliant young teacher, who has been doing some special work at one of the walthiest universities of the north, writes me as follows: “You will be interested in the follow ing figures taken from the official direc tory of the students attending the summer session of the university. The total enrollment is 8,033. Os this num ber Georgia furnishes 268. There are only fotn states that show a larger en rollment here than Georgia. Georgia furnishes 16 per cent of the southern enrollment, and nearly half as many students as all New England. These students from Georgia will spend dur ing this summer term alone more than 850,000, of which amount over 110,000 will go for traveling expenses. If they could get equal advantages in Atlanta, they would save $25,000.” These statements of fact should ar rest the attention of every patriotic Georgian. They show what it costs our state to be so far behind other states in the matter of higher education. It should be borne in mind that the figures are foi; one northern university alone. There are at least three other such institutions to which Georgia stu dents went during the past summer in equal numbers. Georgia students expended probably not less than $200,000 during the sum mer of 1916 in attendance upon north ern universities. This is a consider able drain on the financial resources of the state. But the loss in money is not the greatest loss. A far more serious mat ter is that we are consenting for oth ers to educate many of the most gift ed youth of the state. It fs humili ating to contemplate. Can we preserve the characteristic excellencies of our own civilization without maintaining our own educational institutions and making them equal to the best in the land? Do our people comprehend what a leavening influence issues from a great university, and what a power it pos sesses for coloring thought and changing social and political institu tions? The nations of Europe understand the matter far better than do our peo ple. They know by centuries of ex perience what consequences flow from great educational establishments. Ger many especially has demonstrated the far-reaching influence of universities. After the battle of Jena, Germany stt about healing the political bruises and military wounds inflicted upon her, in that disastrous defeat, by founding the University of Berlin in 1810. M. Ernest Lavisse has related most interestingly the story of its foundation. He says the king of Prussia, Frederick William, declared as the reason for its establish ment: ’’lt is necessary that the state supply by its intellectual forces the physical powers which it has lost.” The great Schteirmacher supported the project enthusiastically and most clear ly forecast its future. He said: ‘ When that scientific or ganization is founded, it will have no equjil. Thanks to its interior force, it will exercise its benevolent rule to the borders of the Prussian monarchy. Berlin will become the center of its entire intellectual activity of north ern and Protestant Germany, and a solid foundation will be prepared for the accomplishment Os the mission as signed to the Prussian government.” His words were most accurately fulfill ed. The University of Berlin more than any other one thing united and invigo rated the new Germany with which Na poleon HI had to settle in 1870. And that force is militant and powerful to day. Think of the proposition! To elevate the kingdom of Prussia and unify the German empire by establishing a school! Our “practical men" would laugh at such an idea; but the more practical German authorities knew what they were doing. The event has justi fied the wisdom of their fir-sighted proposal. Berlin has become the sci entific and political center of the Ger man people. With its great university it is the very heart of national life, and its influence is felt throughout the world. Our own educational institu tions have not escaped the influence of the University of Berlin. Again after the overwhelming defeat of Napoleon 111 in 1870 by the unified and renovated German nation, Bis marck undertook the Germanizing of Alsace-Lorraine by completely recon structing the University of Strasbourg. We thus see that both to retrieve a defeat and to confirm a victory long headed Germany established a new edu- j cational plant. And in both instances | she has not been disappointed in the : outcome. The power displayed by Germany in . the present war in Europe is largely i derived from its universities, especial ly the University of Berlin. This war , has been a scientific and chemical war, i and the German universities have had much to do with it. It is time for the south, and espe cially our own state of Georgia, to un derstand the worth of educational in stitutions. There is not yet in the south a really great university, and we suffer both at home and abroad on this account. Many of our strongest edu cators are drawn away from us into northern institutions of learning. There is scarcely a northern institu tion, of the first magnitude, which has not drawn to it some of the south’s most capable educators. A few may ; be mentioned. Georgia lost to Califor- ; nia the LeConte brothers, and W. A. 1 Keener to Harvard university. South Carolina lost Charles Forster Smith to the University of Wisconsin, where that distinguished scholar now fills the chair of Greek. Virginia lost Dr. Thom- 1 as Price front Randolph-Macon college to Columbia university, and Dr. Dodd to Chicago university. Many others . might be mentioned, it’ space allowed. It is time for our business men, who have any of the qualities of statesman ship about them, to take hold of this matter with strong and generous hands and remedy it. The endowment of one university in New York exceeds the en dowment of all the institutions of learn ing throughout the entire south. This ought not to be so, and will not be so, if our strongest business men will de termine that the case shall no longer continue as it now is. Moreover, our legislation must en courage, and not discourage, generous gifts to our educational institutions. It is a shame and an immeasurable dam age to Georgia that a small minority in the house of representatives refused at the recent session of the legislature to submit to the people an amendment to the constitution allowing the exemp tion of college endowment from tax ation. The reasons offered by this mi nority were the flimsiest pretexts. 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This spurious argument which has been put forth against rhe exemp tion of college endowments from taxa tion, leads logically to the taxation of houses of worship, and already some of those who have opposed the exemption of the college endowments from taxa tion are calling for the taxation of the churches. This our people should un derstand. If this minority can have its way in Georgia, it will not be long un til the churches and graveyards will be taxed. All such legislation leads back ward to darkness and retrogression, and not' forward to enlightment and civili zation. The true principle of taxation is that the state has the right to exempt when ever the exemption will be more advan tageuous to it than the taxation. And who can doubt that the exemption of col lage endowments would be to the finan cial advantage of Georgia, not to speak of higher considerations? The legislature pased a bill to exempt certain forms of ship-building from taxation. 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But after exempting these private and gainful in vestments, the minority in the house of representatives refused to allow the peo ple to say at the polls whether 'or not college endowments should be exempted from taxation ,in Georgia. Can not the people be trusted to vote on this matter? Why should a small minority in the house of representatives withhold from the people the opportu nity to pass upon this issue? Can not the people be trusted? Is this minority wiser and more virtuous than all the other members of the legislature, and wiser than all the people of Georgia? The poliqy of Georgia until 1877 was to encourage philanthropists to endow our institutions of learning, and that policy was reversed by a skillfully word ed section in the new constitution adopt ed in that year. If the people had known what was intended, or if a ma jority of the constitutional convention had perceived what the paragraph meant, Georgia’s time-honored policy would not have been reversed. Our beloved state is being damaged by the continuance of this unwise policy which was surreptituously imposed on Georgia in 1877. The lamented vValter B. Hill spoke with moderation when he denounced the taxation of college endow ments as “an infamous window tax on the human mind.” 5