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(Reply to Col. Peek's letter of
last wee a.)
IIon. XV. L. Peek.
Dear Sir: Tlie request of your
club bo courteously conveyed
through you, demands a some¬
what. full discussion of the his¬
tory and present- -'tutus of i he
College of Agriculture and Me¬
chanic Arts of the State of Geor
gia. The better education ol
farmers is a matter of such su
preme importance, that we are
sure our readers m other State'
will pardon the space given 1.
this somewhat local subject. It
reading may bclo to stir up tins
who are in advance in Georgia t<
do oven still butter work .
We will be as brief as the sub
iect will perm ;t. In 1872, Geor
ia received landscrip for 860,000
e land. This
acres of the public turned
was sold and the money
over to the trustees of the Uni¬
versity of Georgia. They pro
ceedod to establish the A. M.
College at Athens, Geoigia,
As tuition was free and practi
cal education in demand, a very
large number of students applied. the
The college opei ;ed under
most flattering circumstances.
Being located right under the
wings of the university, the stud
cats in in Franklin College so con
ducted themselves ns to cause the
students in the A. & M. College
to feel that they were being ridi¬
culed for preparing for lower cal¬
lings in life. This resulted m
uch a rapid decline in atteud
B there
aiice. I hat in a few years
were no students in agriculture.
mechanic arts.
This part of the college does
not exist at Athens. The State
of Georgia has established a
School of Technology, in Atlanta,
Georgia. This school is eiistam
ed by direct appropriations by
It is '
successive Legislatures. - )
part of the A. A 2
no sense a
College at Athens. Georgia.
THE USE OF THE MONEY APPRO¬
PRIATED.
The acts appropriating the mon
for the maintenance of The
pv distinctly
A. & M- College pio
vide that tuition shall be iree.
The Legislature therefore, did
with tuition fees in the Uni
away The trustees
versify of Georgia, of the
proceeded to use the funds
A & M. College to pay proies
to teach students m Frank
sors & M. exisps
lin College, The A.
in name, the money goes to keep
un Franklin College in reality.
The money coming from the
landscript fuud and from the
Hatch Act. and from the second
Morrill Bill has amounted to near
million dollars. During the
one establish
thirty years since the -
meat of the college, there have
been fifteen graduates as bache
lors of agriculture. We regret
that we can not give the post
offices of these. Having recently
moved, our data has been mislaid.
Hence we can not- give exact iig~
urea and dates, but approximate
will answ 1 .
THE PRESENT SITUATION.
The evident intention of the U.
S. Government vas to have a
real college of “Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts,” with an experi¬
ment station and farm attached
a9 part of it.
The money was given to help
educate the boys and girls in far¬
ming and mechanical pursuits.
Georgia now gets about $50,000
annually for tnis purpose, What
is being done with it? Abcut for¬
ty thousand is absorbed at Ath
ens and branch schools. Fifteen
thousand at Griffin.
There are uo students iu agri¬
culture at Athens. There are no
students in mechanic arts at
Athene.
itKf? was not considered worthy oft
place among the degrees given at
Athens. The degree of bachelor
of science was taken from tin
couise in Franklin College and
put in the course of the A. & M
College in order that the student;
taking this degree might b»
counted as being in the A. & M
College. There are no studeut 1 -
:n agriculture.or mechanic arts at
Jtitfin.
'there are no students in agri¬
culture or mechanic arts at Dah
l onega. But Dahlouega goes un
der the name of an agricultural
college and draws part of thi
money from the A. & M. fuud.
The -e are said i,o be some students
in agriculture and mechanic arts in
the negro school near Savannah
Georgia, which also draws part
of this money. So the negroes
are getting the real benefit and
the white boys none, It ia useless
to sav it is their fault. It has
been tried thirty years and failed
and it will continue to fail thir¬
ty years more under the present
management, Georgia boys and
girls will not study agriculture at
the university where it is looked
down upon by faculty aud stud
euts.
'j he A .it M. College under its
present administration hat prov¬
en a failure.
The Experiment Station has
largely failed to do what was ex¬
pected of it and what might have
been accomplished. The farm
era are not getting adequate re¬
turns for the money in either
case.
WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT IT?
The college and experiment
station should be located togeth¬
er. They should be where the
college would be the largest
school m the town. The experi
mice of other States proves this.
South Carolina and Mississippi
were in the same condition. They
moved their A. &. M. College
from their universities. Before
removal, they had no success.
Since removal they have had won¬
derful success—from 400 to 800
students all the time.
Georgia would funrnish 1,000.
The money now coming from
farmers for inspection fees should
be added to the above. Thus we
would Have $90,000 annual income
with with whLh to ruu the col¬
lege. The inspection should be
done by the students and the a
nalyses made by them, The
whole business should be under
one management, The trustees
should be successful, practical
1 farmon. The president and
ulty should be selected
succeeded those who have in
different lines of farming
mechanic arts.
HOIV CAN THIS BE DONE?
The legislature should be elec¬
ted on this is me. Tno farmers
are in the majority. They can,
if they will, have this done.
Every time any thing is said
about separating the A. & M.
College from the Franklin at Ath¬
ens the immediate reply is, “If
you do that you will kill the uni¬
versity.” This plea admits that
the university is living upon the
A. & M. funds This is a perver¬
sion of the use of that fund
which is wrong in principle and
exceedingly harmful in practice.
It is keeping thousands of Geor¬
gia boys and girls from getting
the kind ot education they neec
and earnestly desire. Every year
that this goes on a crop of
boys and girls is passing the
ucational age a id doomed tc
through life handicapped.
The timeas come when beth
ter education is an absolute ne
'QSSisZr— in farming and
^ , Di th , A . W .
College respectively, & M.
Those j»ut down in the A.
list drav\ r their pay from the A. <fc
\I. fuud except the Chancellor,
■V. B. Hill.
Dr. H. C. White draws $500 as
president of the A. & M. College.
$•2,000 as professor of chemistry
md $1,000 as chemist for tht
Experiment Station.
The other professors get $2,000
jach. The tutors from $500 to
5700. You can now see where
the money goes.
The Blalock Committee and
the Brown Committee both re¬
ported that the College should be
removed. But these reports'
were smothered in the Legisla
turc. The daily paper* will not
xublish these things, We have
hesitated to put them in the
Southern Cultivator simply be¬
cause they were somewhat local.
We thank you and your club.
If you wish more of the facts we
are at your service, Every club
in Georgia should look into this
matter. We ars iu danger of los
ing this money on account of
our misuse of it.
Editor Southern Cultivator
[The faculties of these two Col¬
leges will be printed next week.]
A merchant declares that the
following is a “verbatim et liter¬
atim et spelluatim” copy of an
order received by him several
days ago: “Please send me a
sack of flour, five pounds of cof¬
fee and a pound of tea. My wife
birth to a fine boy last night
also a peck of potatoes and a rat
trap. It weighs ten pounds and
a plug of tobacco. I send mon¬
ey.”
The most foolish thing m the
world is to lose one’s temper. Ot
old the wisest of men said “Bet
is he that ruleth his spirit
than he that taketh a city.” The
person in authority, who s
s e 1 f c o n t, r’o 11 0 d can con¬
trol others—children, seivauts
and employes gereraily. No one
can govern subordinates who is
not able to govern himself. When
one loses temper iu the heme and
says bitter things in a hasty
mood, there is sure to come an
after-time of sorrow and repeut
ance, and there is a hurt iu the
heart which may or may not last
for years. There are scars that
never cease to throb, though the
old wound seems to be healed.
Should death suddenly snatch
hence a dear one, before pardon
for some injustice had been sought
and granted, the regret would
never pass away.—Religious Her¬
ald.
Tht United States is the great
bread producing country of the
earth, and if our supply of food¬
stuffs was suddenly cut off half
the people of other countries
would starve to death. Recent¬
ly published statistics chow that
the United States seli approxi¬
mately $i,000,000,0C3 worth of
agricultural products in a year.
They feed the armies of Boers
and English, and a squeeze in
prices in America is felt all over
the world. England is the best
customer of this couytrv in food
supplies. In 1900 we sold her
$40S.000.000, worth of farm pro¬
ducts. Germany spent here $1S4,
000,000 for agricultural products.
About half of this was for cotton
the rest was for food. France
buys annually from us about $45.
000,000 worth of agricultural
ducts mostly bread aud
Ex.
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