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State. Our college farm lias nearly 2,000 acres of land. We have a 

 laboratory. We have a fine herd of blooded stock on the farm and are 

 now on a firm footing. We give students the best of school educa- 

 tions outside of languages, and give them every advantage to become 

 agriculturists and horticulturists. We hold that it requires as much 

 education to become a farmer as a member of the learned professions. 

 Every horticulturist should understand the sciences that have to do 

 with his work. \Ye believe we are doing a good work. Our students 

 are interested, and the State is interested in our work. The first year 

 our college was full, and the attendance is still good and increasing. 

 Our instruction, we think, is as good as in any scientific institution of 

 the country. We had four hundred students registered last year, but 

 the capacity is 350. A number of students are twenty-five years of 

 age. The college is co-educational, ladies being admitted. The pupils 

 are obliged to work a number of hours per day, and they are paid eight 

 €ent8 per hour, this money being deducted from their board bills. Last 

 year many of the students paid their entire expenses." 



Dr. Samuel Hape, of Georgia, presented a paper on "Horticulture 

 in the mountain regions of the south." President Earle read the paper, 

 a synopsis of which is as follows : "We have three regions for fruit 

 raising in the south — coast, middle and mountain. The differences in 

 small fruits in the three regions are very striking. In the apples of 

 Georgia we have only five varieties that are common in the three re- 

 gions ; of peaches, two ; of pears, four ; of plums and grapes, three. 

 Some southern fruits, such as figs, do not grow on the mountains at 

 all. The mountain winter apples are much superior to those of the 

 other regions. This is an important fact in southern fruit growing, the 

 northern producers hitherto finding markets for winter apples in the 

 south. The mountains are less subject to heavy dews than the low 

 lands, and the vine will grow better. Grape culture is a new industry, 

 but growing. In peach culture it has been shown that certain eleva- 

 tions are comparatively free from frost, and situations for orchards 

 are eagerly sought after. All have heard of a mystical belt or zone 

 situated in the mountains that is free "from frost and this belt all try to 

 find. On the mountains sheltered lands at the base are protected from 

 frosts. Favorable locations for orchards are found on mountain slopes 

 in north Georgia and high hills in southern Georgia. The mountains 

 of Georgia are particularly adapted to the cultivation of fruits, the one 

 great drawback being the distance from railroads, but ere long we 

 hope to have this difficulty overcome." 



