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are women ; in the Southwest Georgia College, 

 79 ; and in the Georgia Normal and Industrial 

 College, at Milledgeville, 31(5, all women. 



The standard of scholarship required for 

 entrance has been raised, and an increased age 

 required for matriculation, with good results. 



The financial statement shows the receipts 

 for the two years ending June 1, 1892, to have 

 been $200,453.41, and the balance in hand at 

 that date $13,137.15. The sums paid to branch 

 colleges amounted to $70,541.83, of which $08,- 

 291.86 was appropriated by the State. The 

 State does not contribute to the support of the 

 university, its income being derived from its 

 own funds, principally the land-scrip fund from 

 the Federal Government and the Morrell ap- 

 propriation, also from the Federal Government. 



The Technological School at Atlanta suffered 

 great loss in April by the burning of the ma- 

 chine shops. The machinery hall, 85 feet wide 

 and 250 feet in depth, in which were a furnace 

 and foundry with the latest improvements in 

 machinery, was a total loss. The loss was esti- 

 mated at nearly $35,000; insurance, $18,000. 

 The shops have been rebuilt and partially 

 equipped with the insurance money. 



The industrial department of the Normal and 

 Industrial College furnishes instruction for girls 

 in bookkeeping, dressmaking, typewriting, ste- 

 nography, cooking and domestic economy, teleg- 

 raphy, industrial drawing, designing, and clay 

 modeling, as well as in the ordinary subjects of 

 academic education. 



There is a probability that the Negro Normal 

 School at Savannah will receive the bequest, 

 now amounting to about $8,000, made in 1834 by 

 John McLcarn to the negroes on the Gowrie plan- 

 tation, on which Archibald Me Learn died. Con- 

 sul Levi Brown, of Glasgow, intimates that the 

 Scotch court will sanction a plan to apply the 

 bequest to the education of negroes in the vicin- 

 ity of the Gowrie plantation in the event that 

 the descendants of these particular persons are 

 dispersed to unknown quarters. It is found 

 that the Gowrie plantation was located in Chat- 

 ham County, on Savannah river, not far from 

 the site of the Negro Normal School, to which 

 the State transferred a year ago the appropria- 

 tion of $8 S 000 per annum heretofore given to 

 the Atlanta University. A claim has therefore 

 been made to the bequest, in the name of the 

 School Commissioner, for the Normal School. 



The amount of legislative appropriation for 

 the year for schools was $935,611. Besides this, 

 each county retains its own poll tax for school 

 use. This amounts to about $200,000 for the 

 entire State. 



The Gammon School of Theology (colored) at 

 Clarke University has received an addition of 

 $750,000 to its resources. Several years ago, 

 after Clarke University had been established, 

 Elijah H. Gammon, a resident of Batavia, 111., 

 gave the seminary $100,000, with which it was 

 built. Just before he died, last year, he added 

 $250,000, and in his will made the theological 

 seminary one of the legatees of his estate after 

 his wife's death. Mrs. Gammon died in Decem- 

 ber, and by the terms of the will half of the 

 fortune of $1,500,000 goes to the seminary. 



Militia. Under the act of 1891 a permanent 

 site for a military encampment was established 



near Griffin. The citizens of Griffin gave the 

 State 105 acres of land,'built mess halls, kitchens, 

 hospitals, bath houses, stables, etc., and fitted 

 up the water-supply and electric-light apparatus 

 free of cost to the State. It is on high ground, 

 and the supply of pure water is ample. It is of 

 easy access from all parts of the State. During 

 May, June, and July the volunteer organizations 

 of the State held their second annual encamp- 

 ment. Four regiments of infantry, 3 battalions 

 of infantry, 1 regiment and 1 battalion of caval- 

 ry, and 2 batteries of artillery were in camp, suc- 

 cessively, numbering in the aggregate about 

 1,800 rank and file, and 240 officers. The ex- 

 pense amounted to $19,154.80. 



Cities. The table given below shows the 

 population of cities of over 8,000 : 



The Okefenokee Swamp. A canal has been 

 cut from the eastern border of the swamp, which 

 is to lead to St. Mary's river. The river runs 

 from the swamp at the southeastern corner, but 

 turns upward and runs back toward the eastern 

 bank. The canal starts from this point, and is 

 about, 6 miles long. It is designed to furnish 

 communication with the ocean, so that timber 

 can be drifted down and easily transported. If 

 the canal be continued so as to drain the swamp, 

 a tract 45 miles long and 25 miles wide will be 

 reclaimed. The swamp is filled with the finest 

 timber in the country, including long-leaf pine, 

 cypress, maple, and mahogany. 



The Experiment Station. An experiment 

 farm established by the State three years ago on 

 land given by the'people of Spalding County is 

 supported by an annual appropriation from the 

 United States Treasury. A bulletin is issued bi- 

 monthly, giving the results of the experiments. 

 These are mailed free to all farmers who apply 

 for them, and tuition in the methods approved 

 at the farm is given free to those who choose to 

 take it. Recent experiments have been made 

 with a new process of curing tobacco, which con- 

 sists in plucking the leaves from the stalks of 

 tobacco successively as they ripen, and then 

 curing them, in three to four days, by fire heat. 

 The crop is thus gone over several times, and 

 the stalks are all left in the field. 



Experiments have been made also in hybridiz- 

 ing sea-island with upland cotton, and have re- 

 sulted in the production of a new variety, which 

 gives approximately a sea-island staple on an 

 upland stalk. The production of this hybrid, it 

 is claimed, makes an era in cotton culture. 



The Crops. The first report of the State 

 Commissioner of Agriculture for the year showed 

 a decided decrease in the acreage devoted to 

 cotton and an increase in that of food crops. 

 The acreage of grasses was much larger than 

 that of 1891. 



In the last report for the year at the end of 

 October the following statistics of the yield were 

 given: Specially full reports upon the cotton 



