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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 79
MAIN BUILDING, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, ATHENS
The State College of Agriculture
Organized Promotion of Better Farming
The State College of Agriculture at Athens, of which Dr. A.
M. Soule is president, is doing a splendid work for Georgia,
in helping the farmer increase the value of his acreage, as well
as in preparing students to become scientific experts, to supply
the pressing demand for agricultural investigators, advisors, and
teachers, not only in the schools and colleges of the country, but
with large industrial enterprises, railroads, and State and Federal
Government departments of agriculture. It is part of the state
University system, and ranks with the highest institutions for
agricultural instruction in the country. It offers exceptional
opportunities for boys, whether raised on farms or in towns, to
qualify for the highest places in this wide field of usefulness.
The college is well equipped in all departments, housed
in handsome, recently constructed buildings with every modern
facility for study, and surrounding it are 830 acres devoted to
practical farming demonstration, all provided by the State. It
provides a four-year course for a liberal and thorough training in
agronomy, soil fertility, animal and dairy husbandry, horticulture,
forestry, farm mechanics and cotton industry. General training
in chemistry, physics, botany, biology, English and mathematics
is also provided. One year courses are provided for men of
limited time and means, and courses of three months and of ten
TJie development of
Georgia's resources has
only begun. Their dis
covery and utilization
hold out great possibili^
ties of adding to the
mammoth total of the
state's wealth. It is the
opportunity to go forth
and find that has ab
sorbed the entire Amer
ican people for the past
century, but Georgia
has been a land that
has been passed over in
the search, and its lat
ent potentialities are
conspicuously inviting.
It is only recently, for
'instance, that the peo
ple of South Georgia
have discovered that
they could have rich
clover and alfalfa
meadows on which to
graze and fatten hogs
365 days in each year.