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tical farming, as well as in the sciences underlying agricultural 

 practice, a teacher of science, a teacher of domestic science and other 

 special work for girls, a teacher of shop work and mathematics, and 

 a teacher of English, history, and languages. 



Plans and specifications for the principal school buildings have 

 been prepared by a competent architect. Nine separate buildings 

 are contemplated, to be arranged on three sides of a quadrangle as 

 sho^vn in Plate X, ^\dth barns and other farm buildings in the back- 

 ground. 



The buildings for each school will cost $70,000 or more. The main 

 academic building, built of brick, will cost about SI 5,000, while the 

 boys' and girls' dormitories, if built of brick, will each cost a like 

 amount. These three buildings are regarded as the first that should 

 be erected. Some of the districts contributed so liberally that 

 nearly the whole set of buildings can be erected at once, but many 

 will have to rely on future State aid or further private gifts to enable 

 the completion of the full complement of buildings. 



The following statement gives the main facts as to locations (see 

 also fig. 1), gifts of land, and cash donations, as well as something 

 of the soil conditions for each Congressional district: 



FIRST DISTRICT. 



School to be located adjacent to Statesboro, and not far from railroad. Gifts of 

 about 300 acres of land, valued at about $50 an acre; cash, §60,000; electric light, water, 

 and telephone free for ten years. 



The farm lies well within the limits of the "wire-grass belt" of the Coastal Plain. 

 The three principal grades of land occurring in this belt are found on the school farm, 

 namely: (1) The deep sands, (2) the gently rolling upland locally known a.s "pebble 

 land," and (3) the low, fiat, swampy lands. 



The "pebble land" is noted for productiveness. The low, flat, swampy lands often 

 support a natural growth of pine and an underbrush of gallljerry bushes and coarse 

 grass. Much ditching will have to be done before general field crops can be grown, 

 the soil evidently being "sour" as well as too wet. 



Rea-island cotton, bringing 25 to 35 cents a pound, is the great money crop of this 

 part of the State. The natural forest growth of the district consists mainly of the long- 

 leaf pine, with an undergrowth of tufts of wire grass. 



SECOND DISTRICT. 



School to be located on a railroad, about 3 miles north of Tifton. Gifts include 327 

 acres of land, valued at about $30 an acre; cash, $60,000; electric light, water, and 

 telephone free for ten years. Independent sewerage is to be installed free of cost to 

 the State, which may represent an outlay on the part of the donors of something like 

 $10,000. 



This farm also lies within the wire-grass belt of the Coastal Plain region, and the 

 soil conditions are much the same as those of the first district. It contains, however, 

 but very little flat, poorly dramed land. 



Most of the tract 's covered with a natural gi'owth of long leaf pine, which will be a 

 source of valuable timber to be used in the several school buildings. 



