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BULLETIN 984, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
above the amount of annual tuition moneys, and the special funds 
for scholarships, library, and endowment show that local farmers in 
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Fig. G.— Facsimile of one page of the Shepardson Memorial in the Memorial Endowment Book. Nearly 
every old farm family in the Belleville community has such a section in this remarkable book. 
the community which was reached and influenced by the academy 
were the maintaining power of the institution. *(See figs. 4, 5, 6, 
and 7.) 
