1917 [pdf for printing]: Board Minutes of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute

1917 [pdf for printing]: Board Minutes of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute

Minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings held in 1917AUQurn, Alabama, February 22, 1917. The Board of Trustees of t he ~labama Polytechnic Institute met in session at the Institution in Auburn, Feb~ 22qd, 1917, at 10:30 o'clock, pursuant to the Resolution of the Board adopteq June 15, 1916, na...

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description Minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings held in 1917AUQurn, Alabama, February 22, 1917. The Board of Trustees of t he ~labama Polytechnic Institute met in session at the Institution in Auburn, Feb~ 22qd, 1917, at 10:30 o'clock, pursuant to the Resolution of the Board adopteq June 15, 1916, namely; that February 22nd should be the dat e of the mid-year me~ting of the Board o . . The follmri.ng members werE? present : . . Govern~r Chas. Henderson, Messr·s. -L. D. Samford, W. K. Terry, Vi. H. Oates, C. S. McD01rVell, C. W. Sherrod, and Harry Herzfeld, a quorum. (1) After a full discussion, on motion, it was resolved that the matter of entering into a contract with the Alabama" Power Company to supply the college with elect ric current for the purposes of po"!.~r and ·.light be referred to the Executive Comrnittee o (2) The question of accepting for the student body of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute an invitation to atte~d tge proposed preparednes~ parade in the city of. Birmingham, after full discussi9n was, on motion, referred to the Faculty. The cordial tr:an}~s ~f t~e I~ sY,i.tut~9~_~~ re expressed for the invitation'. . There being no further business the Board adjourned to attend the Senior Class Day Exercises in Langdon Hall. (This memorandum transmitted by direction of the B0ard through President Thach to R. W. Burton, SecretaTYI -Bpc+rd of Trustees.) .. Auburn, Alabama, June 11, 1917. The Board of Trustees of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute met in regular ses~ion at the Institute in Auburn, June 11, 1917) at 10:30 o'clock a.m., His Excellency Governor Charles Henderson, President ex-off., in the chair. • t In the absence of the secretary, Mr. Wo K. Terry was appointed 'secretary pro tern. The roll \iaS called and the foll owing members ansvlered to their names: - ... { .. Gov. Henderson and Messrs. A. W. Bell, Harry Herzfeld, C. H. Sherrod, C. S. McDowell, W. K. Terry, L. D. Samford, and P. S. Haley. Eight present, a .... t quorum. Announcement was made of the death of Dr. Jas. • Anderson, Chemist of the Experment Station, and President Thach of the Institute was requested to draft suitable resolutions on his deat"h.. t tt ' . A resolution of sympathy with Mr. R. W. Burton, secretar,y to the Board, who was absent on account of illness, was offered and passed on motion. President Thach was instructed to convey this resolution by telegram to Mr. Burton. The rrdpute.s of previous ses's~ons held June 5, 1916, and Feb. 22, 1917, were read and appr oved. - . . ._- It was moved and carried that the Faculty of the Institute be authorized to confer degrees as they recommended to the Board. -, At 11 o'clock a.m. the Board took recess to attend tbe graduating exercises of the cla~s of 1917. The Board reoonvened 'at one 0" clock p.m. ~ President Chas. C. Thach, of the Institute, presented his annual report, together with the budget for the ensuing 'year, the report of the wOFk done on the Experiment Station, Local Experimentation, Extension Service, Smith-Lever De­partment, Waterworks Department, the report of the Treasurer and of the heads of all other departments. Upon motion, this report was referred to the Standing Committee on President's Report, namely, Hessrs. Feagin, Samford, Ter'ry, and McDowell. . . ! K0 r'- l - It was moved by Mr. Samford that President Thach be instructed to express /to · j the authorities of the University of Alabama appreciation of the honor and courte¢ in conferring the degree of LLD on Mr. W. F. F.eagin, member of the Board. ~10tioI}i prevailed. Mr. Herzfeld offered the following preamble and resolution, which were adopted by motiQn: / ( vmereas, Hon. W. F. Feagin has for many years rendered faithful service to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute as an Ex-officio member of the Board of TrusteES, as well as to all the other educational institutions and interests of Alabama. And whereas, he will shortly sever his connection with the Alabama Poly­technic Institute as a. member pf the Board of Trustees, Be it Resolved, That this Board hereby tender its sincere thanks and that of the college to Hon. W. F. Feagin for his untiring' efforts in behalf of this institution and does express its deep regret of the necessity of losing his valuable assistance in directing its affairs. By it further Resolved, That these resolutions be entered on the minutes of the proceedings of the Board and. the secretary send a copy to the Press for publication and a suitable copy to Hon. W. F. Feagin. Upon motion, Board adjourned to 3 o'clock p.m. Afternoon Session Pursuant to adjournment, the Board resumed its sitting at 3 o'clock p.m. Eight members were present. The following communication from the Bank of Auburn was read and, on motion, was referred for further consideration to the Executive Corrmittee: - Jo the Honorable Board of Trustees, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Gentlemen: ( The Bank of Auburn respectfully applies to your honorable body to be designated as a depository for at least a portion of the funds of the AlabawA Pol ytechnic Institute, and assures you that it is prepared to handle this bu~in'ess in a thoroughly safe and satisfactory manner. ----- ----------------------------- ------- ------- -- A large proportion of the stock -of the Bank of Auburn is Dwned byl alumni of the institution, who invested in this enterprise more than t en years ago, in order that the town of Auburn, the students and members of the Faculty should be able to enjoy the advantages of adequate banking facilit~es, which were so much needed at that time. During this period of time, this bank has conducted its business along safe, prudent and conservative lines, and' enJoys the confid~c~ not only of the local community, but of the Banking Fraternity of the state. t Since its establishment this bank has made its. facilities available f.or the needs of the locality and for the whole 'college community and has rendered valuable aid in financing such impor.tant enLerprise ~ as the Alumni Gymnasium Building, the Auburn Alumni Association, etc. We submit that the handling of the funds of the College woul d be greatly ficilitated oy having at least a portion of ' the funds in a local ' depository so that it would be unnecessary to transmit funds by eXpreS6 at the risk of undue delay-, whenever such funds are needed for the college business. In case the Bank ofa. Auburn is entrusted with any portion of the college funds, it stands ready to assure protection to the institution by providiftg i ndemnity bonds to any desir~d amount. 'TIhanking you for your care'ful consideration of this matter we are, -- ~ --==-~== Very respectfully, sis. L. Toomer, President W. D. Martin, Cashier REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPCR T We, the Committee on the President's Annual Report, beg leave to report as follows: ~ "L~", ~ <:!:o~~'I: ~ "'~~ '~~--.:;:;.~~ ~~ "'~ .... ~-,;: ""' ..... ">...~~""- ~~ -,.,~~~< •• ;~~=.."" _~" :''''''~~-:<::>' ~~ also recommend that the Prof essor s- be conf1rmed as f ollows: George C. Starcher, Professor of Horticulture Frederic C. Bi egin, Professor of Architecture (2) We recommend the adoption of the President's Budget for the ensuing year. , I (3) We recommend the adoption of the Hatch and Adams Budget as furnished by the President. (4) We recommend' the adoption of the President's Report on the Local Experiment Work. (5) We recommend the adoption of the President's Report on Extension Work. (6) We reco~nend the adoption of the President's Report on the Treasurer's Statement. t (7) l!Je recommend that the leave of absence of Professor B. A. Wooten be extended for apother year without salary that he may complete his fellowship degree at Columbia University. (8) ~ pproval of catalogue is rec ornmended. s/W. F. Feagin, ChairID~n The Committee reported approval of course of study as outlinea in catalogue. Report adopted. It was moved and carried that the Report of the Finance Committee, which follows, be adopted. REPORT OF FINANCE COMHITTEE Your Committee on Finance beg leave to submit the following report: "\I'le find that the amounts received from the various funds coming in-were not sufficiert to leave the College without debt in the sum of $15,436.50. We regret that·, while the appropriation has been made by the Legislature, the finances of the state are such that this cannot be obtained to clear the college of debt. -\o[e find the Treasurer's report made in neat and business like way and the additions of the amounts received and the amounts disbursed are correct. . l Hespectfully submitted, s/A. W. Bell The Committee on Lands and Buildings made the follmving report, which was adopted: REPORT OF THE CO ~1:rnT1'EE ON LANDS AND BUILDINGS We concur in the President's recommendation and recommend that, as early as funds are available, buildings be cons·trucbed in follmving .order': a modern dairy barn to cost $5,000 to $6, QOO, The present dairy barn be converted into a beef cattle barn. A I'.!Iachinery Building, to cost $5, 000 • . A Veterinary Building, to cost $40,000 . A Chemical Building , to cost not exceeding $75,000. vie would recommend the steps to the ' ~lain Building be repaired and made safe. He further earnEistly aske the Governor of the State to release a sufficient amount of tre appropriation heretofore made to this College by the Legis1ture of Alabama, to carry out the above recorrmendations. s/Harry Herzfeld C. M. Sherrod The Co~nittee on Animal Husbandry submitted the following report, which was adopted by motion: REPORT OF THE C01J1MITTEE ON MUHAL HUSBANBRY VIe would compliment this department on the improvement in the herd and t ypes of beef animals now owned and recommend the disposal of a majority of the herd of Jers,eys among ------------~----------------------------------------- - \<1 the dairy animals and the proceeds invested in a few selected specimens of the Hol­stein, Guernsey, and Ayrshire breeds for demonostration and experimental purposes. We would st rongly recoIT@end that an assistant be named to the Professor of Animal Husbandry, who is a specialist in dairying., with a view of eventually developing a separate department of this important study and industry. sic. M. Sherrod H. Herzfeld The following resolution was offered and adopted: Resolved, That the thanks and appreciation of this Board of Trustees be conveyed to the Faculty and Board: of Trustees of the Southern University for the compliment and richly deserved honor done t o Professor Bennett Battle Ross in conferring upon him the honorary degree of LLD. Resolved, further that the Secretary to this Board be directed to convey a copy of these resolutions to the President of the Southern University and be recorded in the minutes of this Board. ~ On 'motion, ' the following resolution was adopted: Be it resolved that the President of this College be and ne hereby is instructed to draw a sufficient amount of money out of the Board of Trustees Fund of the College to apy al l expenses of entertaining the Board of Trustees each year at the meetings of subh Board. Be it further resolved, that a sufficient amount out of such fund is hereby appro- --- priated to meet the expenses incident to entertaining said Board of Trustees at its __ . regular meetings each year, as provided for above. The following resolutions were presented and, on motion , were adopted: 1 Be it resolved by the Board of Trust,ees ori behalf of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute that t hey hereby. express their appreciation ~ of the generosity of Mr. C. C. {Clay in presenting to the Col lege's agricultural department the valuable st allion, Caesar, and the Secretary inform Mr. Clay of t his resolution. Be it resolved by the Board of Trustees on behalf of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute that they hereby express their appreciation of the interest in our Institution and genro­sity evidenced by the County Demonstration Agents arld citizens, who have contributed t he funds for purchase of registered cattle for the college's agr i cultural department and ,the Secretary advise the Press of these resolutions for publication. / The following communication was read: The members of the farrQly of Reuben Herzfeld, deceased, hereby offer to the Board of Trustees for benefit of the Alabama .Polytechnic Institute, to be used in erecting an i nfirmary , the Stun of five thousand dollars, on the following conditions: , (1) Said i nfirmary be known as the Reuben Herzfeld Memorial I nfirmary. (2) That no charge be made any student or person treated in said infirmaty, who is unable to pay for such treatment. It was moved and carried that the Board of Trustees accept with thanks ' the offer made by the family of Mr. Reuben Herzfeld and President Thach was requested to express the appreciation of~he . B oara for the donation. , A proposition from the Alabama Power Company, which is incorporated in these minutes elsewhere , was referred to the Executive Committee, with power to act. I . ~ /' A motion was passed thanking Governor. Henderson for appointing l'fr. P. S. Haley a ~; -member of the Board of Trustees of the Alabalna Polytechnic Institute. - Pr esident ThacH was authorized by motion to employ a suitable person for r ecording the minutes of the Board of Trust ees. ! {The Chairman appointed 1-1:r . Haley a member of the Finance Cormnittee and a member of : ti Committee on Animal Husbandry. Accordingly, his name was added to t hese COl1unittees. , There being no further business, the Board of Trustees of the 'Alabama Polytechnie Institute adjourned sine die. - . Dear Sirs: Lucile Burton, Acting Secretary by Appointment , . , ANN-UAL REPORT OF PRESIDENT CHAS. C. THACH OF THE ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Auburn, Alabama June 1, 1917 I have the honor .to hand you herewith the annual, report of the work of the .Alabama Polytechnic Institute for the year 1916-1917. ~ ATTENDANCE It i s pleasing to record the continual growth in attendance at the Institution; the total at t endance for the year, including all departrnents, being 2,127, which is the high .water record of attendance in the history of the Institution. J 1 0 The factors of this enrollment are: College Fall, TrJinter, and Spring Terms, 930; College Summer Term, 364; Boys' .::>ummer School at Auburn, 123; Farmers' SWJrrner School at Auburn, 710 . These figures do not include any work not done at t he College . In addition, the Farm Demonstration, Boys' Corn Clubs, Girls' 9anning Clubs, Farmers' Inst itut e~, etc. ~umber approximately 11,000 organized workers. Among the larger county enrollments are: Jefferson, 103; Lee, ; Montgomery, 25; Walker, 21; Hobile, 17; Geneva, 17; J.I.1arshall, 15; Talladega,15; Marion, 15; tvilcox, 13; Dallas, 13; Houston, 13; Limestone, 10; Eto1tlah, 10; Escarnbia, 10; Barbour, 10; Coosa, 9; Pike, 9; St . Clair, 9. Every county, save one, is represented. Thr ee for­eign countries ar,e represented, Brazil, China, and IV1exico. Some o~ the larger state delegat ions ather' than Alabama are: Georgia, 73; SoutH Carolna, 27; Mississippi, 20; Florida, 20; Tennessee, 17; Louisiana, 9; North C~olina, 8. Among the leading denominations, the enrollments, are: Methodists , 397 ; Baptists, 286; Presbyterians, 99; Epis~opalians, ' 51; Oatholics, 32; Christians, 27; Jewish, 12; etc. Four hundred and thirty one students are over twenty-one years ot age. The average age of the Fr eshman Class is over nineteen years, a marked degr ee of maturity. Twenty­five students are married. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MI NES, . . ESTABLISHED 1872. Number of Professors and Instructors, 24; Electrical Engineering, 157; 1·1echani cal Engineering, 241; Civel Engineering, 45; Surveying, 290; Architecture, 13; Mechanical Drawll1g , 241 ; Descriptive Geometry, 106; Mechanic Arts, . 525. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE . Number of Professors and Instructors, 25; Agronomy, 439; Animal Husbandr.y, 497; Horti-culture, .. 183; Forestry, 40; Chemistry, 491; Chemical Laboratory, 213; Entomology, 45; Botany, 178; Pharmacy, 60 . ACADEl IC DEPARTMENT Number of Professors and Instructors, 18; English, 676 ; Poli tical Economy, 68; History, 573 ; ~ at hematics, 543; Physics, 460; French, 28; German , 34 ; Spanish, 72; Education, 162; Inter nati onal La\<[, 214 . HORK Throughout the year the general spirit of work and the observance of the laws of the College have been excellent • . vmile during the excetement and agitation of war through­out the latter part of the session, the st~adiness of the student body has been remark­able. In the cr~s~s, many of the students responded to the call of the colors, forty-two from the Senior Class alone, while many others entered the "Army of Producers," an equal ly necessary &~d honorable line of defense , according to President Wilsono Those who were prepared went to serve their country, whi l e others who were not prepared remained to become so; and never was there a more imperative demand for thorough scientific prepa­ration than at this critical moment. Formal contracts were drawn up by all students who left college and entered upon agri­culture. The degrees were conferred in regular order upon all members of the Senior Class !'<[ho reported for military: servic e., or went back to the farm; t his action being duly r atified by the Board of Trustees. The potse of the student body, I am pleased to say , was .due i n a large degree t o the poise and sound judgement .of the Commandant of Cadets, Captain Frank vI. Rowell. The classes r emaining at their studies have been pr ompt and faithful, and ,· ,have achieved exc ellent .results. MILITARY DEPARTMENT • I I nterest in the Military Department has been mar ked throughout the year. In pursu­ance of the action of the Board taken at its last meeting, a unit of t he Reserve Officers' Tr .aini1g Corps was established in this Institution '\-<[ith Captain Frank VI . Rowell ~n charge . -, As stated in my previous re p ort~ (1) The system is elective; members .of the Junior and Seni or -Classes entering upon obligations, which must necessarily be volunt ary . (2) Commutati on for clothing is allowed those who enter t he System. However , this was not available this year . (.3) On graduation, upon recorrrrnendation of the College Authorities, students may be appointed as Second Lieutenants in the Reserve Corps , U. S . ArltlJT. No obligation to perform military duty .after graduation is incurred by the student. (1) The Reserve Officers' Trai ning Corps had an average attendance of 620 during the year by Captain Frank W. RovoTell, as Profes sor of Hilitary Science and Tactics, and Com­mandant of Cadets. Captain Rowell was most efficiently aided in drilltg by three sergeants detailed from the r egular service, namely: Sergeant Richard HcAndrews, Sergeant William F. Muller, and Sergeant Thorfl..8.s P. Bradley; for whose faithful .servi ce I wish also to express the appreciation of the institution. (2) Febr uary 22nd was observed as lIMilitary Day,lI with reviews, parades, drills, calis­thenics, etc., all of which proved highly entertaining. The oc~asi on was graced by Gover­nor Henderson and the ' Board of Trustees, together with Adj"l,.ltant General Hubbard and the Governor's Staff. The_ event was in eve'j7 way suceessful. '_ (3~ On May 17th the regular inspector from the War Department , Captain War e ~ visited the Institution for the purpose of inspection and review. He expressed himself as highly fOlleased with the excellent physique of the studeI;.lt body, th e~r- steadiness in drill, and t heir familiarity. with mIDst recent forms of drill and maneuvers-. (4) On Nay 24th and 25t-h, t he competitive drill was held between the eight companies of the r egiment , Adj utant Gen. Hubbard, on request , furnis hing a committee of high grade officers to judge the competition and at-.rard the prize. Ma jor }loon, Captain Haley, and Captain wnitehurst kindly served as the committee, r~nderin g most painstaking and faith­ful service. (5) Over three hundred Auburn men have entered the Training Camps throughout the Nat ion; Fort Niagara, N'. Y., Plattsburg, N. Y.; Fort -Meyer, Va; Fort Oglethorpe , Georgia; Fort McPherson, Ga .; Fort Logan H. Roots, Ark .; and. Leon Springs, Texas. T.wo h~dred and two Auburn men are enrolled in Fort HcPherson alone. CHANGES IN THE FACULTY The following changes are to be in the Faculty for the current: To fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Professor Ernest Walker, the College authorities selected Professor George C. St archJ;:lr, ,who was Assistant P rofess~r of ljorticul ture in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute o Professor Starcher is a graduate of the University of· West Virginia , and for years had served in connection with College , Experiment -Station, and Extension work in the Agricultural College of Virginia. He came highly recomm ende~ as an expert in his profession. SLDce his connection with the College he h~s given strong evidence of skill and leadership, and has won the confidence of the Agricultural interests of the State . Professor Frederic C. Bi ggin was elected Pr ofe ssor of Architecture to succeed Professor Hudnut , who resigned to enter upon practice in New York City . Professor Bi ggin is a graduate of Lehigh University and Cornell University, and has had varied experiences as a practitioner of his pr ofes sion. Professor Bi ggin has shovffi grea.t zeal and interest in the work of his department . - ---- - - - - - -~~-----~~~----------- - -- -- ---- -~----- - - - - - ~- ~ - l'1r. W. R. Taylor was elected Instructor in English. Hr . Taylor is a graduate of the University of North Carolina; and also of Harvard University, specializing i n English. He has proved hL~self in every yay satisf actory. J.vlr. E. T. ~·1 otley was elected I n st ructor in Pharmacy and ChemistFlJ. ll1PROVErvLENTS Several necessa~ . improvements of a permanent nature have been made during the year, entailing consider:able expense. 'I1hese improvements were absolutely indispensable and .will be of lasting value to the Institution. (1) The most proroinent of these was the development of an 'adequate supply of water for the Institution. After full consultation with the Board of Trus,tees, Faculty, and C o~ mittee of expert :&1gineers, the de'cisibn was reached that it was well nigh impossible to continue the Institution, (certainly to expand it ) , wit hout increasing the supply of water. In a tecrmical institltion ~ith extensive laboratories of .every nature, and wi th an in~en 6e demand for puwer, (not to mention the usual denmnd for sanitary sewer­age , etc. ) , a liberal supply of water is indispensable for existence . - After fullest discussion, the Deep Well projedt was the one adopted and af~er several trials in sinking these wells, I am glad to say that we at last succeeded in securing ro l abundant flow. Including our ~ riginal source of supply, the Binford Spring, and the five deep wells sumk, a gallonage of 427,000; per day is now available . In loyalty to the college, the Athletic Society und'ertook the construction of two of the five wells . (2) It was found necessary, well night, to reconstruct the r esidence of the Farm Super­intendent. This residence will be in good condition for years to come. (3) Extensive repairs were also made on the residence of the Professor of Horticulture. (4) It was necessa~ to install a system of sanitary sewerage in the residence of Assistant Professor of Horticulture. (5) New sheds, fences, etc., were erected for the Department of Animal Husbandry. (6) New walks and entrances have been arranged for the campus , and. successful plant­ings of grass, shrubs) and trees effected. (7) As suggested, these improvements, owing to the high cost of material, have entailed hea~J expense, but in the opinion of the heads of the departments, they were absolutely indispensable. (8) It is highly gratifying to report also the marked accession to our herd of cattle for the purposes of educating ouifstudents in Animal Husbandry. Through the generoBity of a number of farm demonostrators and gentlemen throughout the State interested in Animal· Industry , a sum of a thousand Qollars was raised, the college duplicating the amount for the purchase of typical animals of the herd including Short Horn, Angus, and Hereford Cattle. A highly valuable donation of a superb Percheron stallimn was made to t he Institution by hr. C. C. Clay, of Demopolie, Alabama . - , DEPAR~lliN T OF EDUCATION AND SU ~llilliR SESSION I beg leave to call special attention to the work of the Department of Education which has proved a success in every particular. The teacher training afforded .for the- young men and women of the state fills along felt want and is .equipping a very ':::large number of excellent .young teachers to go into the .field. Professor -Zebulon Vance 'Judd and Professor Wyatt Childs Blasingame, -formerly .Head of the Second District Agricultural School at Evergreen, have r endered excellent service .in this 'department, and have contribut ed much of their time and energy to the cause of eeucation thr o~out the State of Alabama . In the, present national crlS~S of food and feed producti on, the Summer Session is making every effort to arouse interest of teachers in every phase of farming, and ' is seeking cooper ation with girls and boys of schools in organizing agricultural classes of every description. , . THE EXTENSION SERVICE AT AUBURN AND SONE OF THE THINGS IT IS DOING FOR THE ,FARMERS \ihile the headquarter s are at Auburn, the wonk of this branch of the Alabama Polytech­nic Institute and of the U. S . Department of Agriculture, which it represents, is carried out in every county in the State. The ultimate agencies for reaching the f armers and their families are about 70 farm demonstration agents, and 29 (65) home demonstration agents. There is not space enough in any brief paragraph f or an adequate statement of the activities and results ' of even this one branch of th'e Extension work . , . SOME v: ORK OF THE FARlYl DEMONSTRATION AGENTS These visit i ndividual farms, and advise methods for cultivating the fields, feeding t he livestock, improving the seed, building silos, etc . They are also active in organi:­zing ,farmers into local associations, usually with the help ;"f experts from Auburn, iniD associations ,for the bet ter marketing of their products, or for other' agricultural ends o The average yield of cotton grown on demonstration fields last year was 630 pounds of seed cotton per acr~. This was more t han two and one-half times the yields Gn the average acr9 in . the state. , Likewise, with corn the average yield on the many huhdreds of demonstration fields was 27 .76 bushels per acre , or fully twice the average for the State. (In 1916, the fields ' of oats grown under the sup er~ision of demonstration agents averaged 28 bushels per acre, while the yield of wheat was 12.8 bushels .) , . Fann demonstration agents have devoted much successful effort to gett ing farmers to increase the acreage in such fqrage crops as velvet beans, .soy beans, cowpeas, etc. La st year under their d i~ e ction there were more than 1,000 demonstration fields in velvet beans, with an acreage estimat ed yield of soy beans and 'many fields of other leguminous crops . The derponstration fields in peanuts numbered 5,641 . During t he past year the county agents were very helpful to the l ives t ock i nterests by i noculating 67, 926 hogs , a ssist i ng i n the starting of more t han 1,000 new herds. of hog>, giving sugges t ions on the fe eding of more t han 100,000 hogs, and were one of the means by which large numbers of pure bred cattle Were brought into Alabama . Last year the number of rural or gani zations, which' with demonstration agents were cooperating and most of which were organized through their activity, numbered 262 . Thei r visits to individual f armers numbered more than 75,000. • J • --- ---------------~------- - - HOlfJ.E DELvIONSTRA TION AGENTS The 65 women agents, in as many counties, enrol led last year 2, 260 members in thE!!irr' canning cl ubs. These clubs 'put up 217 , 541 cans or gl asses of product s of the farm , gar den and .orchard . These women agents al so enrolled 600 mat ure farm women in home d emon~ s t rat i on clubs, which clubs put .up 55 , 745 contai ner of canned goods . The gi rls and women have start ed many winter gar dens, strawberry patches, and have planted a considerabl e nillnber of fruit trees . BOYS ' CLUBS The nillilber o'f boys enrolled i nucorn clubs last year was 3,870. The .. boys in four- crop clubs numbered 571 . Ther e were 4, 060 (6 , 924) members of pi g cl ubs in Alabama last year, and t he average pr ofit on one class of pi gs was $14 .15 per head . State short cour ses were held by specialists f r om headquart ers at Auburn , not only at Auburn and iVlonteval10 , r espectively, but i n addi t i on short courses were held in a number of counties , s epar ately. f or boys and f or girls . . , EXTENSI ON SP CIALISTS (AT AUBURN) The above statements menti on briefl y the agencies in ' t he field or . the f i nal channels gf information t o. the people on t he fa rms ~ A cor ps of speciali sts at Auburn is const­antly engaged in a ssisti ng, i n their t echnical lines , both county agent s and f a rme r ~ . Among these Ext ension experts at Auburn may be mentioned t he fol lowing: An Agr icultural Engineer, who devotes his time to teaching farmers the best methods of building silos , barns, or other farm str uctures, instal ling home waterworks and l abor-saving devices , etc .; an AgronoITQst , or cr op expert , with an a ssistant, who , with t he Director , of the Extension Servi ce, the State Demon str ation Agent , and three Distr ict Demons t r ation Agents , give their time t o showing what crops are best adapted t o each particular section of t he St ate, the best met hods of cultivat ing and fertili­zing each, and t o answering thousands of lett er s along these lines . In the Direct or ' s office al one last year the number of letters answered was mo~ e than 10,000 . An Entomologist and a ssistant give out from t ime t o t ime the results 0f their i nvest i­gations on the .best means of combating noxious i ns ect pest s , such as the new green plant bug,tae old enemy, the cotton boll weevi l, potato pugs , fruit i nsects , etc . A D ~ i ry expert visits farmers in all parts of the Stat e, advising the best methods of f eedi ng and r earing dairy cattle and of handling the products . This week this par ti­cular special ist i s on a t rip to a western stat e to help the farmers of one communit y select and br i ng .into Alabama s everal carloads of dairy cows. He and ·the Expert on Beef Cat tle, whose dut ies are somewhat similar , have been t he means of selecting and br inging idD t he state l ar ge numbers of pure bred cattl e , as have most of t he county agents . The Horticulturist of the l'JXperiment Station ' has an ext ensive corre spondence in answer to i nquiries about the best methods of growi ng every kind of veget abl e and fruit . Anotner special i st , whose work i s intended to increase agriculturm pr oducti on and at the same time pr ovide f arm women and country gi r l s with a larger i ncome is the Poultry Specialist . Her work i s done in connect i on wit h t he canning clubs . - I MEETINGS About 5,000 meetings were held by the employees of the Extension Service last year . More than 200,000 people were reached in these meetings. EXPERIMENT STATION WORK .., Publications! During the period between July 1, 1916, and May 31, 1917, the Experiment Station has published the following: 5 Bulletins 2 Circulars 5 P~ess Bulletins ~ Index Pamphlets Total 14 Publications This is a total of 204 pages, 181,000 copies and an aggregate of 1,524,500 pages in all publicationso WORK OF AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT , . ,Cf0 A detailed list of ~he experiments in progress on the , Station farm in the agricultural department is given in the last annual report of the ptation, pages from which are' at tached to this report . The Local Exp~ riment Work, consisting of experiments made in counties throughout the --I State and not at Auburn , is listed in Experiment Station Circular No . 35, a copy of which is attached . The Technical Experimental -Work conduct.ed by Professors FUnchess and' Robbins has attracted considerable at tention from scientific men interested in the processes occur­ing in the soil ., Professor Funchess has also some unpublished results accomplished during the. past f ew months that promise to throw new and unexpected light on some of the causes of the infertility of many. Southern soils • . FUNDS OF THE COLLIDE The following ~able exhibits the accounts of the College for the Year: . ' 1 . U. S. Fund , known as Endowment , ' or Morrill Fund, (Bonds) 2 . U. S. Appropriation, Second Horrill Fund (By Congress)· 3. State. Appropriation, in lieu of Fertilizer Tag Ta~ for work done ' by the Department of Chemistry 4. One-fourth share I lluminating Oil Tax fev Department of Chemistry 5. Tuition, Non-resident Stucle~ts 9. Surgeon and Infirmary 7. Miscellaneo~s Income, Fees, etc . $. 20,280 .00 27,900 .00 40,000 .00 12,710 .00 2,508 .00 4,235 .00 25 , 469 .29 -- -----.--------------------------------------- ----------- ------------- \C\ 1 The State appr opriated nothing directly fop educational work at Auburn. Copy. of the Annual Report of the Treasurer of the College has been forwarded tu each member of the Board of Trustees. The receipts and expenditures of the Hatch and Adams reports have been set forth in the regular report of the Experiment Station. Printed copies of this report have been sent to each member of the Board of Trustees and forwarded to the United States Department of the Treasury, and of Agriculture; _ in Washington. The Examiner of the United States Department of Agriculture has audited and checked the Hatch , Adams, and Lever accounts, and r eports them as entirely satisfactory. The receipts and expenditures of the College are set forth in a monthly statement furnished the President by the Treasurer of the College. The report of the Director of the Experiment Station, on the boll weevil, has been duly filed with the Commissioner of Agriculture, according to law, and a copy sent to each member of the Board of Trustees . TECHNICAL EDUCATION Perhaps the world, in all its history, has never seen a more perfect demonstration of of the power of scientific technique than in the present world war. Mere number's are nothing in this colossal conflict. The conflict is one of accurate science and of knowledge and our nation feels an immediate and imperative demand for scientific training, and still ~ scientific training. vmether in farm operations or in manufacturing operatias, our young men must have the very best advantages. It is not a question. of privilege to the student, but it is a question 'of imperative duty on the part of the State to make its youth efficient : to give them the power of knowledge: an accurate, precise knowledge of the great forces of nature --- thereby increasing production and adding to the economic power of the Nation. I t was my pleasure, not long since, to address the State Bankers I Assoc·i ation in Mobile and surely it is an auspicious omen that the financiers of our commonwealth, the men - who handle the productive capital. of the State, have become keenly aroused to the grim problems confronting us. Our entire industrial and economic order has been upset by the boll weevil, and we must have more and more intelligence to meet the emergency of the changed conditions. Agriculture is now a skilled profession, rather t han a hap­hazard diversion . ' And so with all forms of industry; 'today skill counts, and counts heavily. For example, there can be cited two young men of technical training in Alabarr~ who , by their scientific knowledge, have brought millions of dollars oft capital into· the State of Alabama, and repaid the State a thousand fold for the cost of their educa­tion . And this . session, in reponse to the call back to the farm, hundreds of young men have left the College of Agriculture, who are making highly valuable additions to the pr oduction of the farm and garden. Money invested by the State-in such productiVie education is not a charity, but is rather a most enlightened form of self-interest; a most profitable form of investment. Despite the. immense growth of the Institution in attendance and in development of dif­ferent technical courses, the College has been unable to secure any additional income from the appropriations made by the Legislature of 1911. ' During that sessi0n I pre- . sented a careful and modest buget to the Legislature and an appropriation of $10,000 per annum was readily made . Again three years ago with the same presentation of facts, an appropriation of $15 , 000 per annum was made. But owing to the condition of the State Treasury, not a dollar of these a ppr opriations has .been available . As before -I -I stated, the very best interests of the Institution, both in regard ·to equipment and teaching staff, are suffering most keenly . From the lack of salaries, we are constantly losing some of our best men, while compared with other Southern .Institutions , over which our own graduates pr.eside, our equipment in many important departments is entirely inferior . (1) Fifteen thousand aollars per year .additional income for t he mere upkeep of the institut i on under the present rate of commodities and high cost of ' living . (2) An adequat e Veterinary Building . (3) A Chemical Building . (4) A decent Barn for Herds . (5) A decent herd for education of students in Animal Husbandry (6) Farm Machinery Building (7) Ten Instructors in Mathematics , English, Animal Husbandry, Agr onomy, and -the funda­mental subjects taught by the Institution . The minimum sum immediately needed for there pressing demands is $250,000 . Recommendation of the Faculty for degrees will be transmitted after the final ·acti'on is taken on the candidates . Respectfully submitted, s/Chas . C. Thach President .7 5aJJmt, h'ith appr oval, the follovving Report of Director of Experiment Station and Professor of Agriculture . Part I - College\! ork (Hatch Experimental Work (Adams Experimental. Work sic . C. Thach, President. (Report on the Local Experiment Work will be submitted as Part II and Report on Extension Work will be submitted as Part III . ) J Doctor C. C. Thach, President Alabama Polytechnic I nstitute Auburn , Alabama I submit f or the next fisc~l year the following estimates for the teaching work in the agr i cul tural department , including Soils or Agr onomy, and Farm Machinery . These are the same amounts as borne on the present budget. Appropriations needed for Teaching College Fund 1 . 2 . 3. 4. 5. For T~aching Crops, including Cotton Classing $ For Soils Laboratory, teaching For Scholarship man teaching services in Soils Laboratory and Field Laboratory For teaching Sal ary in Farm Machinery CR . U. Bla singame) For exp e~ses Farm ¥~chinery Laboratory, including freight on machinery to be borrowed . STUDENTS 200:.00 300 .00 150 .00 300 .00 The number of student s rec elvlng i nstruction in Soils and Crops under Professor Fun­chess and student assistant Wingard was 451 . AGRICULTURAL BUILDING THere is, of course, need for the same provision as in the past for the maintenance and janitorial service of the agricultural building, and for providing, as soon as _ possible, for fire escapes . EXPERI¥1ENT S TA TION WORK Publi:ca tions:' During the period between July 1, 1916 , and May 31 , 1917, the Experiment Station has published the following : , 'l'otal 5 Bulletins 2 Circulars 5 Press Bulletins ~ Index Pamphlets 14 Publications This is a total of 204 pages , 181,000 copies and an aggregate of 1, 524 , 500 pages in all publications . WORK OF AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT A detailed l i st of the experiments in progress on the Station farm in the agricultural depa rtment i s given in the last annual report of the Station, pages from which are attached to t his report . The Local Experiment it/ork, consisting of experiments, made in counties throughout the State and not at Auburn , is l i sted in Experiment Station Circular No . 35 , copy of which is attached . The technical experimental work conducted by Pr ofessors Funchess and Robbins has attracted considerable attention from scientific men i nterested in the processes occurring in the soil . Professor Funchess has also some unpublished results accom- ' plished during the past few months that promise to t hrow new and unexpected light on some of the causes of the infertility of many Southerrr soils . -VfORK OF OTHER DEPAR'IMENTS Progress has been made in experimental work of the Animal Husbandry, notably in the feeding of hogs and beef cattle and also in the feeding of dairy cattle . The work of the Department of Entomolo~J has been continued in the same lines as heretofore with the addition of studies on the green-plant bug which threatens to beco~e almost as serious a pest as the boll weevil, unless checked . 200 The resignation of Professor E. Walker, September 1, 1916 , the death of Doctor Ander­son last February, and vacancies for several months in those departments has inter­rupted experimental work in horticulture &!d chemistry . It is hoped that oonditions will permit the active prosecution of both lines of work at an early date . Pr ofessor G. C. Starcher entered upon his duties as Horticulturist for the Statio£ early in January, 1917 . Agricultural Assistants : I. her eby Jrecommend that the salary of Mr . E. F. Cauthen , Associate Agriculturist, and paid entirely from Experiment Station funds , be hereafter $2,000 .00, an increase of $200 .00 . - (Not Approved) 1 hereby recommend the appointment of }1r . H. B. Tisdale , formerly an assistant in this department and now pursuing .plant-breedingwork in Cornell University, as Associate in Plant Breeding in the Agr,icultural Department, at a total salary of $1620 . Of this the U. S . Department of Agriculture will pay $600 000 and the remainder, entirely from Station and Extension funds , is provided for in the corresponding budgets that -1 submit . Mr . Tisdale will thus take over most of the work recently ~one by lVIt . F. E. -BoYd, ­resigned . 1 herewith submit attached budget for the Hatch and Adams funds, which is ' along the same lines as in the past year . Yours very truly, (signed) J . F . Duggar, Director A.labama Experiment Station H~t ch and Adams Budget - 1917-1918 Name Salaries: . Vet erinarian Director of Station Botanist Horticulturist Asst . Horticulturist (Price) Entomologist _ . . Chemistry of Soils (A.nderson) Asst . Chemist of Soils (Sum Total Chemistry (PhYSiological) Farm Supt . & Recorder (Cauthen) Animal Husbandman (Templeton) Foreman Agrow . Farm Asst . Animal Husbandman Herdsman (Morris) $650) Hatch $ 600 1600 100 200 300 100 200 1,100 1,~00 350 300 (Besides Adams 900 1,400 1,800 Fer tilizer 700 500 400 300 475 200 Funds) . Plant Pathologist (Peltier) , Agronomist (Funchess) T;r;'easurer Asst . Entomologist (Thomas) Asst . ' Entomologist (Vaughan) Asst . Botanist (Massey) Secretary (Sellers) Asst . Recor.der (Howell) Assoc. Plant Breeder (H. B. Tisdale) f.la3t. Librarian Library Helper Research Scholarship in Botany Student Assistant in Agr . Clerical Help Maintenance : ? ? ? Publications , Anin~l . Husbandry Botany Chemistry of Soils (and) Chemistry (Physiological) Soils (Funchess) Entomology Agriculture & Plant Breeding Horticulture Library Heat , Light & vater Power Travel & Other Adm~i strative .Expenses Contingent Veterinary Plant Pathology Postage Total $ $ 500 100 100 300 90 90 250 75 50 100 100 1,500 1,100 100 ·100 100 2,000 900 400 370 150 75 200 50 15,000 $ 1,250 (Bes idffi #750 Loc . Exp) 700 500 500 300 270 (150) 200 ~ B esideD $150 Co]) 800 800 · 200 100 100, 850 600 100 355 450 $ 15,000 Respectfully submitted, s/J . F. Duggar , Director I submit, with approval, the following Report of Director of Experiment Statiori (Part 2) being a report on Dr . C. C. Thach, President Alab&~a Polytechnic Institute Auburn, Alabama Sir: THE LOCAL EXPERIMENT WORK S/Chas . C. Thach, President I hereby submit my report on the Local Experiment Work of all departments of the Experiment Station receiving partial support from this State fund for experimental work . FIN~C IAL RECOM}~A TIONS FOR THE YEAR BEGINNI NG JULY 1, 1917 ' _' (1) Plant PAthology . ' Annual Appropriation Balance from 1916 Expenditures Part Salary (besides $1,250 from Adams fund, G. L. Peltier) $ 750.00 Travel" Supplies, etc . 450 .00 $1,200.00 (2) Horticulture Annuai Appropriation Expenditures: Part Salary (Prof. Starcher) , Part Salary Field Agent (0 . Brown) Part Salary Field Agent (C. L. Isbell) Traveling Expenses Supplies, etc. (?) 200 Pric.s $ 300 .00 500.00 400 .00 . , 500.00 00 .00 , 2,000 .00 $ 1,000 .00 200 .00 ~ $ 1,200 • .aO $> 2,000 .00 oJ' '::02 (3) Agriculture, Plant Breeding, Drainage and Farm Machiner,y, also Publications and Administration. Positiop or, Expenditure · Crops . Plant Breeding Drainage & Machinery Publications & Administration · . Annual ~pp~opriation _. J 7,000 $ 1,200 Balance from 1916 Balance from Publications 555 . 55 $ 1,500 · "l!"i-7-,-5-5 5-.-5 5 $1,200 $ 1,500 Assoc . Plant Breeder · I (Tisdale, H. B. ) Field Agent (Williamson) .$ 1,800.00 Asst. & Sec . (Sellers) 200.00 Recorder (Cauthen) Assoc . Agr. (Funchess) Director ?500 .00 Treasurer Steno . cSt Office Help Agr. Enir. (R .U.B.) Drainag~ (Coop. with U. S. Labor &,Misce1laneous Postage ,& Stationery Freight & Express Office Rsst . Recorss, etc . Pr1l1ting, e1:c . Travel 300 .00 300 .00 520 .00 , ~ D.A) . 700 .00 .200 .00 250 0 00 200 .00 1,200 .00 300 .00 200 .00 80 .00 ' 50 .00 50 .00 100 .. 00 100 .00 200 .00 $ 2,500 484 .97 $ 2,984.97 . J r, , 200 .00 350 .00 . 300.00 500 .00 . 500 .00 . -50 .00 100.00 300 .00 30 .00 1,284 .97 150.00 --- -- - - --~ Plant Position or Expenditure Crops Breeding Fertilizers, Seeds, etc . 1,600.00 100 .00 Office Furniture, Repairs & Conting~nt 285 . 55 20 .00 Fuel, Lig~t & Water Total Est., 'Expenditures $ 7,555 . 55 (4) (5) $ 1,200 .00 Junior and Home Economics ixtension (From Local Exper~ent F~d) Annual Appropriation Expenditures: Girls Boys Clubs Clubs . Part Salary Supt. (Duncan) $300 '300 Part Travel Supt. (Duncan' 230 340 Part Salary (Kerlin) 100 Travel (Kerlin) 900 Part Travel State Agt. ' ,. H. D. vfork 500 Part Travel (J. C. Ford) Stenography & Extra Help 450 Labor & Miscellaneous Supplies 280 200 Total $ 1,310 $2,290 Animal Indu'st ry & Poultry Annual Appropriation I _ Balance- from 1916 Ariimal Industry &. PoUltry Expenditur~s: Part Salary , (T~pleton) , t . Supt . Beef Cattle Experiments in West Alabama (E. Gibbons) Part Salary Part Salary Supt . Hog Experiments in ~est Alabama (Successor to A. E. Hayes) Drainage & Publications & Machinery Administration 150.00 100.00 $ 1,500 .00 $ 150 .00 2,984 .97 $ 5,000 ;00 Pig Poultry Clubs Clubs Total ) i 600 570 100 900 SOC 300 300 720 1,170 200 180 860 $ 1,220 $ 180 $ 5,000 ... Animal Husbandry Poultry . ~3 , 500 ._00 " .t J,OOO .PO . 1,391 .12 $4, 891 .12 ~.J.. $ 1,(1)00 .00 .J ,150 .00 150 .00 Horse and Mule Feeding Expt . (To be locat ed) Salar'J Supt . Hog Experiments in Southeast Ala- 1,600.00 1,000 .00 ' 300 .00 e bama (H. W. Caffey) Stenography Traveling ~enses & Inci dentals Wages, Loc~l Poultry Man (H. Schlenterbusch) Poultry Project (~ . ii" Stephen) 1,000 .00 . 180 .00 661 .12 Experiments of Short ,Uuration, Incidentals, etc . JI . Traveling ~penses and Incidentals (6) Entomology: Annual ApprQpriation Balance from 1916 • ' J '.$ 4,891 .12 r 180'.00 300 .00 48 .00 100.00 222.00 $ 1,000.00 $ ·2,'300 .00 89 .03 $. 2,389 .03 -' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Expenditures : Part Salary (Vaughan.) Part Salary (Dr. Hinds) Part '::; ala~" (Thomas-, F. L.) Hisc. Expenses, & Stenography Total ~endi tures· $ 500,.00 , . . , 900..00 · . . , . , . , . 300.00�� . , 689,.03 • $2,389.03 ' I submit, with .". approval, <.th .e following Report of Director of Extension Service . (Signed) " Chas. C. Thach, President. , Dr. C. C. Thach, President Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn, Ala. Sir: I herswith submit an outline report of the Extension Service, including ten­tative estimates for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1917. , , , As is well known, the &lith-Lever Act of 'Congress, making the appropriations for Extension work provides an annual increase ,for the next few ,years. This annual increase for Alabama is $17,909.85. ~is increase, and indeed the greater part of the entire appropriation from Congress, is available only on condition of appropria­tions from within the state • . The securing of this increase for the coming year is provided for by an appro­priation made by the state Legislature to the Extension Service to become available July 1, -1911, the first year's installment of '~ich i ,s $20',000., The funds to be paid out at Auburn in the support ofe~ension work for the fo 110~1iI1g f~sca1 year are as fo llows: . • • Inerome ':. • • • • From Smith-Lever -Act of Congress . ' ..... $ 67,311:'.52 state Appropriatton (Act approved September 25, 1915) • • • • • • • • "... 20,000.00 I 87,3iX.52 .. t The Food Bills, which were considered by Congress .last week and which have ~ot been passed at the date of writing, will have some bearing on extension work 'in Ala-bama and necessarily influence the exact distribution that will be necessary fop the support 'Of farm demonstration agents and home demonstration agents, and ~hence 'an indirect influence on the amounts available for the other projects. , TherefClre, the following is submitted as a tentative budg~t to be modified so as to conform to the pending Federal Legislation referred to, and in conformity with the regulations of the U. S. Departmen~ of Agriculture governing cooperative exten-sion work. ' Farm Demonstration. • • • : • • • • • • �� ••• $19,100.00 Girls' Clubs, etc. • • • • .• • • • • • • • • •• 1),000.00 · Boys Clubs and Assistant Agent·s f~r Club Work • .- 1,504.00 . Pig Clubs • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .• • • ," 980.00 Poultry Clubs, etc. • • • . ... • • • • • • • • •• 2,250.00 Administration and Printing • • • • • • • • �� • • 12,500.00 Movable Schools for Whites and Negroes •• .•••.• 2,000.00 AgronontY' • • • • ,. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • $ Da:i.I'j'ing • • • • ge • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Beef Cattle • • . " . • • • • • • • . • • .• . , • • Horticul ture • • ,. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Specialists in Ot,her Departments • • • • • . • Marketing and Farm Finances 6, 570.00 2, 02) .00 1,980. 00 1, 800. 00 2, 600 .00 (Especially organization fpr) • • • • • •• . 4, 950. 00 Hog Cholera Extension (Dr. Wilson) • • • • • • Farm Demonstration for Negroes �� • • • • • • • Home Demonstration for Negroes • • • • • • • • Agricul tural Engineering • • • • • • • • •. • • Project to be selected after Food Bills passed. Farm and Home Conveniences (Fullan) .. • • • • . Total ~o . OO 8, 066. 00 1,800. 00 2,500. 00 2, 791. 52 400. 00 As usual, detailed and itemized written projects will be formulated for each of the items mentioned above as required by. the regulatiolUi ot the U. S. Depart­ment of AgricultUre. ' In advance of such formal projec,ts, t attach as a page of this report the salar,y 'list 6f extension employees from all funds, including direct Federal appropriatio~s outside of the &nitq-Lever run~ •.. . Extension Service .Salaries 1917-1918 (Fmployees ~t Aubl,lrn) . I • • .* -Name Position Smith- Lever Duncan, L~ N. Kerlin, I . B. Ford, J. C. Keown, Miss Supt. Junior & H. E. $ 324. 00 Corn Club Assi~tant 500. 00 ·Pig Club A~s~stant 120. 00 Asst. Home Dem. Agt. state Home Oem. Agt. Camper, Mrs. . Asst. Home Dem. .gt. Murphy, Miss stenographer Ruffin, Miss stenographer - Wright, Mis.s ' ~ ~.- - --stenographer ~ . " " Feminear, Miss Asst. Home Dem. Agt. _ .Hinds, 'Ttl. E • . Entomologist Vaughan, .E. A. Asst. Entomologist Beli, J . P. - Steno graphe r Starcher, G. C. . . Horticulturist Erice, J . C. C. Asst. Horticult. Brown, otto Fiel;d Agent 700.00 .J)o.oo 780. 00 420. 00 "360. 00 300. 00 100~ OO 42:> .00 150. 00 200.00 . 200. 00 . .... , _Isbell, C. L. Field Agent 200. 00 . r Goggins, Mrs. stenographer l~ . OO Duggar, J . F. Director 1000.00 0( • • Gqvemmemt · Government Government Goverrunent Government Government Government ..... '"' GoverIUJlent Burleson, D. J: Agronomist - . &lffoo. oo · Tisdale, H. B. ' ~sso ." ·~i . 'Breeding ." . j66.00 · . -GOvernment l> Jtsst., ~~ol!. (H~w~ll: t ~., ,:., ' • • • position, ~O . OO Sellers, O. H. · Secretary ' , . ". io6o:od " . . " Peacock, Mrs. t . G. ~otc : .lsst" . " 906. 00 Jones, Miss Peirl Stenograpner 900. 00 Jenkins, Miss F. stenographer 840.00 / . , - - - - --- . , r," ' . Total all Funds U. S. Government • 3, 000. ~ i , ~o . - 1 , 800. c1, 400 . 1 , 800. 1, IDO • • < 780. 780. 720. 1,620. ~o . .1, 100. 960. 2,200. & House 1, 600 & House 1 , 2:10. 1,000. 7.8 0. 3., 400 & House 1, 800. 1 , 620. 1 , 410. 1, 800. 1, 200. 900. 840. 00 ,- Name Position Sad th-Lever Co o~eration ith Total all Funds U. S. Goverrnnent - Glenn, M. A. Watson, J . J . Templeton, G. s. Cotton, Miss I . Quill8rly,- J . p~ Filler, C. G. Watt. J . T. Lett, U. L. Mauldin, C. M. Wh1 tehead, A. D. Landers, Miss .: Wilson, Dr. H. C. stevens, F. D. Dem. Record Clerk Treasurer Asst. to Treasurer Dr. Rural Organi­zation & Markets Di tto .& !gr. ' Eng. stanog. $1300.00 100. 00 300. 00 1800.00 780. 00 Animal Husbandman 2:>0.00 stenographer · 5ho.00 Dairy Expert 42:r. OO Beef Cat tle Expert 180.00 $tenog. ditto 72:> . 00 As~t,. Dairy Exper.t 300. 00 state Agent Sbo.oo Dist. Agent ~o~ oe Dist. Agent 500.00 ! ~ist. Agent 200.00 . sterog. ditto... , . 6Co .00 Hog Cholera Expert Loo.oo Gov. Farm Man. Expert ):)0. 00 Gov. Market Expert 000.00 Blasingame, R. ' U. J.gricu~t. ' Engineer ,' , ·1200.00 , Asst • . Agri. Engineer ))0. 00 General: . Government Government . Government Government Government Government Government , Government Government Govermnent '! $ 1, ~0 . 1, 800. 300. 1, 800. 780. 2,400. 900. 1, 800. 1, 800. 720. 00 1,000. 2,700. 2, 000. 2,000. 2; 000. 9W • 2, 200. 2, 000. 1, 800. 2, 000 . 300. Coal, Light and Water Janitors, ew. · ~, 325. 00 300. 00 . ~ . , . , . Tentative list .. of salaries; possible., omissions because of pending Federal. legislation. _"i ~, .~ . Tentative Budget for Depvtment of Horticultu-re . " Year 1917-18 - ' . Salaries: Brown Isbell stenog. ----....... - ~ E. $500.00 400.00 Prof'. of Hort. ' . ):)0'. 00 Asst. Prof. of Hort. Trav8.l: Brown & Isbell Starcher & Price SUpplies and Expenses 400 . 00 100. 00 300. 00 $2,000.00 ' $4,036.00 f " " :"> ( ... Extension . ',College Hatch $200.00 200. 00 1SO. 00- lSO. OO 200. 00 . SOO.OO 300.00 $ $ $1,200,. 1,000. 780. 450.00 200. 00 . 2,200. . 600. 00 »0. 00 1,600. 1,500. 700. 100. 00 900.00 ~300 . $ 1,806.00 $1;056.00 ifLbo. ~, 2eo . As a part ial record of the various activities of the Extensi"On Service, inc1udirig tbe farm and home demonstr.ation agents, I attach to' thi:s report , for reference a carbon copy of pages 1 to 23 inclusive of my formal report for the l ast complete fiscal year. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - . I am glad to be able to report. gratifying progress in. every division of exteDsio~work . • Yaurs ·very· ·truly, (Signed) , J . F • Duggar, . Director of Extension Service . . . I submit, with approval, the following Appendix (a-) to the Report of the Director ~ of the Extension Service of the Alabama Polytechnie Inst~tu~e, by J . ' F. Duggar, Director of Extension Service. (Signed) C. C. ' Thach, President ., "':" .• il j , ~. General Organization and Relationships ' , , .~ • • II.. .. . Duling the fiscal year ending June ~, 1916, the~ organiz\ation of the , Exte~sion Service has undergom no change. The three principal divisiom; of ... the work ~ as heretofore' consist of: . ' I ~ (1) (2) (3) • .., ,. . • r The County Agent Work. " . The Junior and HoJOO . Economic's Extension, 'including. Corn Clubs, Pig Clubs, and Home Demonstration Work' for Women and Girls. A Group of Specialists. t Under the general administration 6f the Director the supeIVision of , the Farm Demonstration Agents is by a state Demonstration Agent, assisted by three whi te District Demonstration A.gent's · and by one Negro District Demonstration Agent; under the same general relationship the Superintendent of Junior',and Home Economics Extension is in charge of the club work for boys and girls, and is assisted by a Home Demonstration' Agent , and an Assist-ant Home Demonstration Agent, by an Assistant Corn Club 'Agent; 'and bi ~ ~:~g r C.:Luo "Agent. ~ . - .. _ .. The specialists are, connected with ·appropriate depar.:tanents of the college or station. , . # I' . . .. The general policy i~ ,EXtension work pprsued during the past fiscal year has been that of strengthening the lines of. 'Extension activity already in. "existellce ratl1er than the ;taking up of many. ne~ en terprj.ses. This. strengthBning ' r , pf dld.l1nes Or work applud to practically.. every line of endeavor, but was. especially emphasized in the work for women by increaSing, as far as funds per­mitted, the number of women county agents in HOIOO Demonstration Work, and the ', length of employment of each. The number of Home Demonstration Agents employed in the latter part of the .fiscal year was 2'], an increase of 8 ove~ the preced-ing year. ' . ,, ' Special Campaigns < , • Campa'lgn .rOlf Fall nest~c"tion' of' Cottari' ~tills. =-: o~ or the special feat-ures of the year was the campaign for the destruction of cotton stalks conducted in ~he 'early fall of 1915 as a 1I1ems of combating the boll weevil. These meetings were arranged by the qounty agents. The , speakers were specialists from Auburn and. a gricultural agent s of the various railroads. There were held 167 meetings in 39 counties. The total attendance reported was 14,159. This effort had considerable effect at the time, and app~ently ' a still 'greater effect in the following fall, 1916, during Which stalktdestruction~ was practiced to a much greater extent than ever before in Alabama.. ~ . . . .. Campaign for the Picking of Infested -Squares. - Last summer a special agent was employed, in cooperation with the Montgomery ChambGr af Commerce, to assist the county agents ~n ,holding ~meetings as a means 'of impressing farmers with 'the necessity of thorough picking 'of squares infested by immature stages of the boll weevil, and: for impressing other steps "necessary in the successful cultivation of cot. ton under boll we.evil conditions. . . Meetings of all Kinds , ' Conditions prevailing dUring the past fiscal year seemed t ·o make it desiFable to -liold an~ especially 'large ll1.Uflber of meetings. The following figures, which at the d.ate of wrtting are i,ncomplete, show the number of meetings and the attendance compiled from the 'reports, thus ,far received; of ~the 'agents and others participating in tQese ' gat~rings: - . Moreover, .specialists and .acbninistrative ~of'fieer-s l report a 'total of ' 701 ' . , meetings 'in which they took part, w.lth an attendance of 88, 989. MOst of the , latter meetings -were also' reported by the county agen1ls. Thus we have a total- · of more t.han '200,000 people' -reached by~ 'word '·of mouth. ", New Activities ,. r.!S A t the begiliniQg cif' the fiscal year. ,two spaciaJ.ists WfJre 'added· to the exten-siol\!, force., namely, an ,Agricultural' Engineer and a Bee~ Cattle Speclali'st. ' . . Cooperation with Other InstitutionS. ,1 It '-).,; i)' r As in the 'preceding year, there has been a ·continuance:. during ,the past fiscal year' of cordial cooper8ttion be'bleen the Extefision Service and the following public agencies: ' ' <,' ~ • ': . " state Board of Agriculture; Girls" Technical. Institute, ' Montevallo, Alabama; " Boards- of _Co1l1l11issioners, or other county authorities, of., most of the counties of Alabama; Boards of Education of a number of' counties of Alabama-; Chambers of Comerce of several Alabama cities, ' e:tc., . " Moreover, there has been cordial' but infonnal cooperation, between the Extension Service and the state, .Department of Agriculture and' the state Department of Edu­cation, as well as with severa,l normal schools, agricultu.ra1 scnoolsr high' schools, am other educational agencies. . ' . t • There has been no notable change in any cooperative relationsbip~ during the past year. - - -, - ---- ----- - - ------------ -- --- " New state Legislation Affecting the Extension ' Service . . . The , Alab area Legi slature, which m~ets quadrenially, was i n session in 1915, and passed ' at l east two ,'laws , ha",1ng some· reference tQ Exte~sion work. ' . ' . -: ... , ". One of these was the Act approved Sept. 25, 1915, making state appropri­ations as ,partial offsets · to - tbe Federal Snith-Lever funds for the two fiscal years 1911-18 ,and 1918- 19. THis ·act makes an appropria,tion tD the ~tension Service ·of$2)).o.OO'.OO for ,the fiscal year 1911- 18,. ,and ~ o.t $40;OOO. OO .,for, the fiscal year 1918"19. No new State f'o..nds 'were ' proViided .. as offsets-'to Fed,eral /' Snith- Lever fund :for ,thQ past, .fisc.al 'year. ~ This' Q-mission req'l!:i:red that t:q.e ·,' , county appropriations be used as a means of $8curing the increase rin .the Federal! Smi th-Lever funds. -. . ' \ Another law enacted by the same Legislature Was the Act approved September ,28, '1915, 'providing for, state ano. '- CQ:1Jllty :funds for ·the giv:i:ng ,of prizes and 9therwise .enQouraging Extel}SiQQ WQ:ck among farm boys and ~ girls .. · The -resp6nsi- . ·bility of the expenditure of thi:~ prize money !is vested; by the 'Act;' jointly i-n . "the sta,te B(.1ard , of Agrileq1 ture ., and. ~ ,Co:unty:: Boards 0 f ~Cdmm±s sioners "of the : :' re'spective counties, under plans approved by the Extension Service, -whic-h , _how­ever, does not have the custody of the funds therein provided. ", ; ." ('"~a .. . '_ . .:. Increase in Equipment ' :j" \ , r,­. " . ... . . '- r . • _f \.~ ,. " ' , . ~ { :.... ... . ' . r - '.l No la~g~ teXpeDdi tures were made for elabOrate' equipment. BUt 'the ' necessary type writel's' ~a· 'd.esks required by- 'the~ mcreasing clerical '"WOrk of. the (~tension Service were supplied. A F'ord car was bought for the use of the specialists while- ' traveling :in nearby. counties; nlimemuB... charts lIere· prepared, .and ;a · few sets of lantern slides .~~ bought;) the ~icultur.a1 ~Engineer was' supp11edWith a> ". drafting mac.hine- and blue. pritlt i"ramErr am the '.necessary fi"1ing , ca·~s.,:were pur-chased for several of the o:C.fices having ".large Extension corresppndeme. ' Chm ge s in Personnel r -- : .. In SeptemQer19l.), Mr'. 'N. ~h Negley,:. Expertl i"n Dairyingj . "jointly' employed by the .Ex~nsion · Sel:vice an~ the 'Bureau: of Animal. " IndustI)'" :of (tb'e' U'. &. Depart- . ment of Agriculture, resigned to accept a position elsewhere, and was immedi-ately succeeded by J . P. Quinerly., ' . ' J ,-- , In, February 1,916, ").)1:i8s Nellie, M. Tappan r.esigned·. -and was ·succeeded 'as ' , ;Ils~istan~ ~9J;ne_ Demonstration. Agent' by Mis svMall7 G. ' :Paxton" 'who .isst"ationed at' Montevallo, Alabama, in the joint employment of the Extension Service am the Girls' Technical Institute. • r ���• · f • r - , The following is a list. :Qf- specia~ts and a.c.imirrl:strative; offi-cers on' t~ ,staff ·o~ tile . Extens;i9n~ .se~ce · at . the end of the: .fiscal ·year 1915- 16,: , ' ., ' Blasingame, R. U.;. Agrd.cu,l turd Engineer; Boyd, F. E. , Assistiln:t; ,Agronomist; Burleson, D. J. , Agronomist for Extensionj r:. , :or..;.. :. r .... , . . -' r '.,' ...... " , ( : ') f f. ' D~gar, J . F., ,Director, Extension', Service;' • 1J ~ Duncan, L. · N. , ' Slp.t. Junior" and Home' Economics Exterrsionj'-' ~ Filler, C.. a.; Beef. ,C_attl:e Expert; . i .. " ~~ Ford, J ~ C. , State Pig Club Agent; '; " ':, ' J Glenn, M. A. , Treasurer; Hinds, . U.' E.; Ento1l101ogist;- '; r - '. ~, , .. ) . I . ') - .- - - - - - ------------- --------- ------ - -- . Kerlin, I . B. , Assistant Boys' Club 'Work; Lett, U. L. , Dist r ict Agent; Mauldin, C. M., District Agent; Paxton, Mary G. , Asst. State Agent, Girls' Clubs and H. D. WOrk;: 'QuinerlY, . J.' P. , Agent in Dairying; , . , . ' Reese, Madge J . ~ 'state Agent, ,Girls ' Clubs and H. D. , Work; , Seliers,O. H., Auditor; . , Templeton, George S., Animal Husbandman; Vaughan, E. A. , r Assistant in Entomology; . '. .. Walker, Ernest, Horticulturist; - Watt, J. , T. , state ,Agent; , .. Whitehead, A. D. , District vAgent; . *Wilson, H. C., Field Ag.e nt for Hog C-holera • , . .-, *In' cooperation With BuI"eau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. ,,-'. '1 ' • '1 r . Publications " Jl " The foliowing is a list o£ publications issued during 'the-'f'iscal year encUni ' June .30, 1916, with 'a statement of the 'circulation of eacht' t .. " • " Number of' Publication Title • B .: v No. ' Page s No. in 'Edition Circular No. 1 _ ~ Circular ' ~o. 2 '. r~ ~. Circular No.,' J . Program Boys' Corn 'Club 4' :!) '. r,- Program- Boys' Corn & .. Pig Clubs 4 :­. Report 'Girls . Club ' &. Home <'. ·8 . Demonstration -Work ;in Alabama Farmers' Leaflet lb . 8 Swmnary of Boll Weevil L Suggestions - , 4,060 · 4,000 . 2,000 Far~rsl . Leaflet No.9" Ground Roqk Phosphate Farmers' Leaflet Ne . lO 'l'wt) )Insects 'Mistaken-for 1 2 25,000. ):> ~ooo· t .• I '. ~he Boll ''leen1 Farmers' Leaflet No.11 Druarf Essex Rope . ~ Total 7 ~b1ica tiona ' . .:J) , Q"(JO . 30, 000 J " . r l' ( -. 125,000 In addition there were 4 issues of plate ~e~ic~, consisting of 43 ·artic1es each of which was :Supplied to all of ~ the county or' weekly newspapers of Alabapla desiring it. The number of weekly papers making use of this plate service was 139. r • The ~ecia1 aim in this work is to make .e~ch of the articles brief and seasonal or timely, that is, having a bearing on what farmers should .be doing at that particular time of year. " I .' ' ,. ~ • • I' _ . , . ) ':.... . " f • - r .~ ;,:'- ,;.. .. I. \,: {" '! . Available funds have pennitted the supplying of this material· for only about half of the issues of the weekly papers. That the p1ate .S9rvice .meets a need is evident from the d-orrespondence -on the ' subject; and fTq~ the f'act that some news-papers ' . after using all 'the s,'rticle s supplied run -ma.ny . of ~thenl a' seco~d .ti:Ine. . Administration , . r . _. j ( r _ ,. .9 r ' . Under this project was included provision for the general supervision by the Director of the Extension Service of all lines , of work, including farm demonstration,,' home ' demonstration, . the activities of specialists, etc. ; for the employment of a part of the stenographic force; for the necessary auditing, bookkeeping, etc. Progres s has be~n made in :systematizing the. organization. Fann Demonstr ation Work :" ... ... " . t ., Complete statistics for farm demonstration work are not. available when this report is w~tten, . sipce the repor.ts of c~unty agents include t~ enti re calendar year am cannot be compiled until the earl~ part of. J aIUlary • . The field work of demonstration agents has been l~gely along the same lines as in earlier years. Floods, a long period of continuous rain, in summer, and other unfavorable climatic conditions destroyed the ' crops on. many demon­stration fields and grea~ reduced the average yield per acre. • t • However, it is believed that the aggregate usefulness of the farm demon-stration ag~nts , of . AI{ib~a , was in th,e ' p.ast yeu of agricultural adversity greater than ever before. They were called on more extensively andirLa greater variety of ways in this year of unfavorable conditions than ever before to assist farmers in solving the perplexing problems that confronted them. When Congress PSlS~d a bill fo r the pa1"tial relief of flood ' sufferers, the distributi9n· of s~ed to those·,who had lost 50 per cent or.;- mor~ of their crops was placed in the hams of the demonstration agents, working in cooper-ati. o n w-ith +oca1 relie,f ,co_t tees. '. . ~- ... - . - - -- - Whilf? the free distribution of seed·!to t~ most needy involved some- com- ' plaints when duty made it necessarY for the agents to reject certain. applications, yet this ~.ifferent task Was performed in' a 'far more efficient way than 'WOuld' '. ' have been possible by any other equal' body of men. . The ~fficu1ties were increased by the late date at which the floods occurred an~ the consequent aITi val of seed very late J in tbe . growing season.· This service to the needy was necessarilY 'an interruption to .the usual activ- - ities of ~he county agent~ . . . , ~ . .,... r. .. ~ , ," . ' . /(s Tn earlier years 'tlle--farm demonstration agents in 1916 were largely engaged itl the following usual lines of activity: ' . , ~ Assi.stin~ , ~ the construction of silos, dipptng vats, barns, and ,other fa~ buildings. . Supervision of demonstration fields of cotton, corn, peanuts, oats, Wheat, velvet be~s, sweet . potatoes, etc. Promoting the planting of an increased acreage cir oats, Wheat, . rye, and of such soil-improving winter cover crops as bur 'clover, crimson clover and vetch. #- "~r Assisting in organizing boysl copn and four-crop clubs, pi,g clubs, etc., . . and cooperating wi.th .the 27 home demn~tration agents or tl;le Extension Service in tHeir work for girls ain 'Women ~ Special stress has been laid during tlie past year on the following lines of endeavor: r (1) ,Organi~1ng t~~rs tor a n~ber ot agricultural purposes" esPecially for ~ ~ .. ( - - . -- - - ------- ----- - - ------ --- --------------- ------ (a) the better . marke~ing of their products;. (b) fpr · the cooperative purchase of purebr ed Ii va stock; ." .... . , (2) Encouraging the raising of hogs, not only for home consumption but as a sale product, - thus supplying, a :;ource of revenue available~ to every farmer as a means of making him more indep~ndent of cotton as a sale "crop; (3) (4) , , . Introduction of purebred cattle, especially bullsl ' Encouraging the more g~neral use of lime. . r I j". • . . Org,mizations . ~ ! , . That progress is b,~ing ~a!ie . ~n . getting fanners to organize for their eco­nomic good is evidenced by, the n\lIllber of farmers' organizations in which the demonstration agents assisted. aepQrts available at this date from only 29 of the lmite agents show in thei. counties a total of l62. fanners·1 organizations with a total membership of' nearlY f~ve thousand. ~ . , . .' In the effort to bring about a. sudden increase in pork production special campaigns were conducted by. the agents, alone and in conjunction'with the hog cholera specialist and otherr,experts from Auburn, with a view to ' pointing out the means of producing PQrk econQmically on forage plants or special. "hog cropstf, to shOwing the m~aIlS for ,preventing the spread of hog ',cholera, carrying information about the practicability of marketing hogs, etc. . ' , : .. t' J I As a part of the same 'p;lan" agents, in whose counties hog cholera pre­vailed, inoculated many th911.J~d~ _ 0", hogs. For example, in one county the agent, within a period of considt';ra'tllY less than a year, inoculated 9, 566 hogs. ' More than 80 carloads ~9t .hogs Ve.re marketed from each of ~eVeral counties where a few years ago the "$1ipmel}t Qt a single carload was a · rare event. .. . The following is a ~ist of F.~ Demonstration Agents, arranged alphabeti­cally by counties as the fo:r.ce , w~s Qrganized ready to begin tlle ~ new year' s work just after the close of the fiscal year covered by th-is .. ':report: . - ' Countl , A~ents r l. ., " '" .. . > Autauga w. D. Barton • '1·" Baldwin ... ' . • . < G. v. Stelzemnuller Barbour H. C. Heath • \, "',,":\ Bibb .I';i · ... J. w. Mitchell ') ; Blount Ernest Carnes .. r· j "! ' Bullock J . A. Mc~od Calhoun - .. . : . . ~.. ... ..... L. G• Prentice Chambers R. s. Parker , Cherokee , j J. ~, .~ h '1. I. .r , ~N. · , H. Brbw:n ~ " f ' ~ . '1 : ., , .... , . ' , .' "- .. ,.,.L Chilton w. H. Oonway" ~ ,. ~ ... .;J~r if 1o. ' \ ' ," • I •• 1 ~" , ~ ... ~ r ~ • - " .... l .. . ' J - Choctaw . ..: A. ·~G. ,HaITell , . ~ . -v' , < L. ~ Clarke E. C. Calhoun I .. Clay ~,~ H.··.L. AJ.;sobrook r ~ ~ t ' ",. - t: I~ ~ - :.. Coffee r'1::', f, .: ', .' J • E. Pittntan ~ ; :. ~ • I') r Cleburne E. R. Carl~n , Coyington , t J. P. Wilson . ' . , , . I . . .;. /' Copsa . . :\ ...l' r . . . s. 1-1. Day Crenshaw R. C. Carlisl e ., --- ---- ---------- ---- -- --- -- - , - , . County, Cont. Agents, Cont. Cullman J . K. Turner Dall as · John Blake DeKalb ' , J . F. Bozemon Elmore w. H. Bachelor Esc ambia J . E. Moses Etowah ... I A • R~ 'Gis aendanner Fayette R. G. Arnold Franklin . ' R • c. Maples Geneva E. w. Jenkins Greene J . E. Gray Hale w. H. Knight Henry w. F. Murphy Houston .- , , L. J. 'Thompson - , . , ' Jackson ! , . D. D. Gibson <c Jefferson L. A. EWnondson . '. Jefferson ' , I ; H. L. Brown A Lauderdale • C ~ · L. HolliDgsworth Lawrence Garth Gilchrist 1 - -) Lee C. M~ Floyd: : 'Limestone Fred Stewart ~. ) .. , ~ lowndes W." o. Winston '.I. r - , I ' , I Macon . . H• . A.. Vau€1lan·' ' . . ,. Madison C. ' F. Striplin • 1· .I Marengo ' , Frank 'R. ' Curt1.s J , p~ ~ Marion c. w. Frederick Mobile , Geo . A. ' )Ialbney J ' t v Montgomery t .... I . T. QttIim . , " I ~ - ' .. . ~ High' , , . ' Morgan ' - ~ T J. T. 'L •• .J " '. Perry w. M. Eiland Pike ( '.: .. .. , , L • J. Hawley ., . . e' 1 ~ ,. .; -- Pickens .. I, ' w. H. StOrey ~ , . • ( . I .. l . , Raooolph J . D. Wood r- ·Russell. ... , w. M. Sellers " ., ., ' - " , : . ~ -, I , ~ ~ Shelby r .... . ' ..... - J . ' N. WYatt .. .q ..... ,! . "st. Clair John Yarbrough ~ Talladega w. T. Coker Tallapoosa _ I Y w. H. Pace " Tuscaloosa R. C. Lett Tuscaloosa ' . E. l.fims ,# ." ,. I .. Walker r " 1"9. J . W. Sartain Washington f. f ,. (' .... • H. H • Best ·r • Wilcox r ' A. H. Barnett Winston G. W. Gibson .. " ,, , l • , , .' . ' '; . ,t Home Demonstration Work Progress has been made in the tiscal year in increasing th& number of Home Demonstration Agents from 19 :to 27, .located in as many counties, 'and 'in notably lengthening the average period 'of'. employment. " The enrollment in canning clubs was 2,270, and tm total enrollment, includ-ing girls and women, in all lines of. ac.~ivity was 3,450 . :~ In addition to the usual work of the canning clubs, home demOnstration clubs . for t«nnen are now organized in 13' count;ies, with an enrollment of 838. Probably --- - - - - - - -- - - --- the most notable innovation in l«>rk for women and girl s was t he 1a.'?ld~g , o_~ _,~Re first few county short courses f or girl s and w::>rnen. The number of these was in­creased soon after the end of t he fiscal year, so t hat before the end of the calendar year such courses bad been held in 19 counties, attended by 65 club girls and 1,149 women and other visi ters. The 'second annual State short: course was held a t Montevallo. 'The re Were present 69 club girls from .26 'counties, who were instructed during the greater part of the week in canning, cooking, sewing, and in methods of conducting club meetings. . The number of demonstrations reported for the canning season was as follows: 331 in cooking; 220 in canning and preserving;. 173 in home-made conveniences; 41 in se:.wri ng; 34 in but ter making; 28 in basketry Among other ac.tivities of the girls' clubs, :other than canning, may be mentio~d sewing (in making at caps, apronflJ'~" aJid .dresses); basket making from pine needles and other inexpensive material; 'the planting of wititer g&roens by 975 organized girls and women; and the planting of a number o£ 1mi t trees.' , . Rest Rooms. - Few innovations are more needed to promote the cordial re­lations that should exist between country peop~e 'and town people than the establish­ment of rest rooms in every town where a:rry considerable number of fanners and their families traP-e . . Tbese serve as welcome headquarters for ' farmers ' wives am childre,n, whUre s~nd,ing the' day in town, reduce 'the fatigUe .of' shopping trips, supply reading' matter ~ f~ those' who wait, and have a distinet"soc1al value. J' , , H~me dem9,ns~ati.on ~ agent,s have been active 'in ehlis:t~ the interest of local chambers of commerce and other civic bodiss in' this matter; it is largely through their efforts that 18 rest rooms have been established in Alabama towns and citie~ in counties where: home demonstration agents 'are employed. -These are usually at the, county seats, and in 'these rest rooms tbe home demonstration agent usually spends her Satllr(iays, in conference with. the fam girls and women. There follows the list of organized counties and the names of the Home Demonstration Agents now emplo~e~. _ County Autauga Baldwin Calhoun Chilton Co ne cuh Coosa De Kalb Elmore Escambia Etowah Franklin Jefferson Lauderdale Agents Zelma Gaines Lillie M. Wetzel 11ah W. Polhill Lida Jones Mary Frank Sturdivant Louise S. Day Frank Dobbs leo Zeigler Lucile Carter Dianna Bankson Anne Elizabeth Duncan Eva Beatr ice · Shipp ' May Iretie Cureton ' ~ . - - - - - - - - --- - - .county, Cont. Lee Macon Madia>n Marengo Marshall Mobile l1onroe Pickens Pike st. Clair Talladega Tallapoosa Tuscaloosa ~~alker r .., .~ .... _ .. w · Poultry Ataents, Cont • Bessie Collins Moore Clara Sullivan Louise S. Thomas Stella Harnes Ida Robertson Jessica E. McGuire ·Bessie Carter Courtenay Fontaine Florence D. Wilson Selma E. Ash Ann R. Davis Genie Martin J .. L. S. Brow Dora Etta Davis ' . _ t A small amount was alloted for. ExtenSion ~rk with pdu1try. A lecturer on this subject was emplOY~ to give tnstrttction- at a number of Movable or Exten': sion Schools. Then the proj'ect was tempora.rily suspended so ' that the' remaining fund s mi.ght be used to increase- the number and the length of employment of the Home Demonstration Agents. Farm Demonstration Work for Negroes For a number of years there have been employed, by the U •. S. 'Depart.tEnt of Agriculture, in special demonstration work tor -the' negro far.mers of Alabama, one district demonstration agent and six Ilt9gro demonstratitm agents in as many counties. Under the general memorandum of understanding by which the Extension Service took over the sup$rvision of all of the Department I s EXtension lit) rk in Alabama these' agents ,were continued. ' During the. past' year there were added from the Smith-Lever' funds four ' additional' negro agents for the greater part of the year, and two more for the last few 1JlOnths of the fiscal year. Thus at the close. of the fiscal year there were 12 Negro demonstration agents in 11 counties, as follows: Countz Agents Bullock M. B. Ivy " . , - Dallas T. H. Toodle Lee C. D. Menafee Lowndes N. L. Johnson Macon c. w. Green Madiron G. w. Patterson Madison P. c. Parks Marengo P. J. Brown Montgomery J. P. Phillips Randolph J. B. McPherson Sumter T. w. Scales Wilcox F. L. Bennett These agents engage in the same , character or work for Negro farmers as is performed by the white agents, chieflY for white farmers. In most cases the . .... J requests for . the employment of such agents have co~ largely ' from white tanners who realize the need of · having demonst ration work done as·.·a mean;; of increasing t he agriculturai efficiency of their tenants and. other, Negro farme.rs. These Negro agents have the counsel and he~p of the white.-,demoIlBtration agents . located in the same counties. One' of these agents is located at the A.&M., College for Negroes at Normal, Alabama, and his activities ' extend throuih a number of counties in the northern part of , the state. , One line of ~rk that he ,is .conducting cOt;;lsifilts ,in the organization and , su~rvis~~n .o+ School Fa~ Clubs~ Their special activity is the working of land by. school children or . their parents as a me~s of rais~ revenue : fo r improved school . equipment, ' a~ well as for ~~. instruc tion of the pupils in the, growing of crops. He reports 11 activ~ ' f~ c~ubs in operation ' ip the past : fiscal ,year, with a total enrollment of 365 school· children • . C- ,", .. , Home 'Demonstration Work £O'r Negroes , ..!' - . ~ ~. .. 'J , . . , . "'.. • t." . .' , - . A beginrting has been made in the effort to help the llome-makers of ;the . Negro ' race by the appointment of one Hotie 'nemonstJ;ation Agent ' for Negroes. ' . . ,- . In accordance w,ith the general policy of · co~uc.ting th~ Neg~ ~rk as largely as po~~ible .~ cooQeTation ,lli1!h .the tl!O l~adi~g educ,tional ins~itutions for ~hat X'ace" the first hQme ec,o~mic' s speci~ist, for Neu.oes ,was located at · Tuskegee, . and. most ,of,her .}work ,~s done itl ,the cou~ties of,--.that p~t Qf. thQ ' state. 'However, ' she assists in Movable. or Extension Schools for Negx:ooes ,.inc , other E.ar~s of the st~te. ,,: .~ ," . . . . v ' , Movable , o'n:. Ext~ns~on School~ ~r A,gricUl tU:~ . . and H~me Economics . ~. "..- Each Movable or Extension School has separate sessions for farmers and for 'WOmen. Some .o-f the sessions .. are in common and devoted ,to. topics o'f fllterest to bot!'!. ~ar;m.er-s '~d.' their families. ' .S,eparate :Movabl~ ,or j!!x&ension ~hQol~ are .. -') held fqr. the two races • . : The fellowi.ng -,statistics are· qompUed .fro]8 the' reports of the J~onductors of these schools • . ,. Slch ·schools f<>r -whites cW'er.e held in 22 countie~ and ,a~tE,nded ' by ~,650 ,· people . ' " f . " . _' " ., ,, " .. ;. f .; " ... . . . - t'" ~!. ,", ('! • ..\,..c;. .. Movable or, ~tel).siQn . Schools , of Agriculture and Home :Economics for Negroes" were held ,in 14 counti&s, with .an e.stimated attendance' of· 6;768. The attepdance of ~ . )lumber, of 'white famers a's v:isitors or. s~aken:; on sofOO' of .the Movable ' Schools for Negroes sqows the ·general interest in this lin~ of ]iOrk,. ,': t ~ , Marketing ',-, A ; I'" One f~nction of _the Extension cService is·' ~ -help in inf~rming the' farmers of Alabama .pf means by which they mq mark~t thJeir pro9-uc~s to bette~· advantage'. This ,iJriplies inst~uc~ion· reg,ardin~ methods of orgapd.zatioJ} for cQoperative , market'ing, standardization of v~~ieties of fi:e.ld crops, ~d of . other farm pro- ' .' ducts, methods of paCking, etc. . " _, , ' . While but a small amount was available for the marketingproject' in. the past fiscal year, this subject was presented by Extension speal<:ers in a large number of meetings, and help rendered to the county demonstration agents in orgB1lizing a number of cooperat~,ve' marketi~,g associ~:tiqns. In ~dclltion, the, growers of Johnson grass ,and alfalfa hay w~re assisted-,in form,ing. an association for the mora satisfas-tory~ ~ket.i?g of these, h:q,~."" . " , One of the local l1larketing associations thus fostered immediate'ly effected --'- - - - the savi~ or, ahout. 20 percent to its members in the cooperative purchase of velvet bean seed', and se'cured an 'agr eement as ~o what varieti es of certaip. crops should· he gtown for mar ket. · This fall this association :received reque sts for quotations on a mueh larger amount of diversified farm products than i t s '. members were able to supply. . ' '. Agric~ltUral Engineering Pror~ss:>r R. ' ~. Blasingame was , appointed Agricl1lt~a+ Engineer. H~ is a l' '. graduate of the Alabi-ina PolytecImic InS'titute, ~o, ~~r ' rece.iving spec;J.al training ' in a Western institution, ~as ' at the time of ~iS employment, July 1915, in charge of the Department ()( Agric~tural ' Erigineering' of the ' Pennsyl~ania " . Agricultural College. ' He'; is employed ,ih' Extension ' wo~k for twelve~twentieths ot his time . * He endeavors to divide that part of his time for 'which he is' paid from Extension fums about equally between services rendered, on the one hand, to farmers in the matter of planning' 'barns, silos, and other farm structures, and in the utilization of labor-saving machiner.r, and, on the other han4, ~ervices renderedvin the i11terests ·of wOmants work, especi~lly the 'n.atter of home water-works and sanitary convenienCes ~ . . . ~.. , ' v J '. .' During' the fi§cal ,year·i the AgriciultUhl 'Engllje-er pr'epar~' fo.~ famers -. nUl'llerous plans for lJatns,- woOden- hoop sUos,' 'hay raCks', gate~, e~. ; gave " advice' and other help in the 'plamiing 'and erec~io~ ' ot , 10 co-ncre'te "silos; fUr.;. nished ~ fannet?B and· 'demonstration agent's 170 blueprlnt~ of -farm structures; • _ r and wrote -1,)00' lEttters~ ' He alSo' partiCipated in 14 nie~ti~gs, in ~lrlch he . - talked to about 1,000 people. A number of surveys for farm and ' hOme 'water- - works was made and four hydraulic rams installed. Most of the above work was r :" • ( . done in connection With the county demonstration":agent's • . ~ ' ~ {'> I ' Extension Work with Beef Cattle r" ~ - - . ~ '1'ne-"Extension 'SpeCialist ~~~ -AnimaJ. 'Husbah~ , 'qarl ri., 'Filler, 'is emplo~cf c09pet*atfvely by · the" Al:abama '~'ens,io~ 'Service, '8Jldr ·the' Bureau of Arlima1 'In- , dustry of the U. ',S. Depat'1iment of Agx":tcul'Eure • . Rehas l«>rkea. :ehietly in tae - counties already rrreed 'froM ticks'; an:! ' in n1ne,"Of the~e he lIas 'coriducted 'ri!gu~ . lar demonstrations in cattle feeding. In s6'V'eri 'of' these demonst.i'ations 385" ( head of beef cattle were fed, and on thirteen other farms he supervlsed the wintering of ,1,212 ,head. He has' i9ndered serVices wn!,rever' Po$'sibl~ to, the ' . ' ... ('" ~ .,. .. ~ - r ~ county. agents J.n the formation of livestock as,so~iatibns, ~ inenc,ouragin.g. - .' breeding of beef cattle, and in 'selecting a~ brlngf.ng ::rntb ~he' -State a number of purehred ca-ttle. He attetlded 43 'meeti-ngs; in which addressed 3, 675 people. ' ~ Dairying Thei Dafl!y Exp'ert 'has been jom-t1y employed by the 'Extepsion SerVice and the Dafry; DiviSion -of the U~ S,. Department "of Agriculture. ' . JIe has b~ena~tiyely at work in· -a number of. counties, ~d ~as been, on~ 0.£- the agenc;le~ re~.on'sl.ole . for -the rapid 'increase in the .'prOduetion ot, butter; ' and in :the e·stab.l is.,h lnent · of creameries at Selma, Auburn, and Talladega. . J !, .... , . I ' As Slowing the rapid growth of the dairy indUstry pmy 'be mentioned the following instances: ' ".. ' ,-" .' I . . , The Selma creamery rose' froM a monthly 'producti on 0£ '4, OOO poums ' ~ June 1915 to 11,01J pounds- the following May. Meant~; .. the 'number of ,'patrons" increased from 25 to 104. Its r ate 'of increase througfi the 'remainizlg months' ~ of the calendar year has been even more r apid. . . i' , L ---. - --- --- In one c~mmuiiity th~ sales of ;cream ~n :Qe cem'ber ' 1915 ,wei-e onlt $12. 00 and by the next May this had ' increased to more ,t han $400.-00. ," .. ' ~. ' . ,j" .. • ~ /' .t' The Dairy Expert gave seventeen demonstrations 'i n 'the use "of the Babcock tester, 5 of which r esulted in the purchase of test ers and in their continuous use. One of his de~onstrat~ons in butter making resulted- in . rai~ing. the 'price" received by a certain fanner 'from 20 cents per pound before receiving , the 1n- ' struction to 30 and 35 cents afterwaros. . The Dairy Expert participated in 37 meetings, having an attendance of 1,692. He, has a record (doubtless incomplete) Qf 63 silo~ , built in Alabama during the fiscal year. These were about equally divided between the conc~ete, the stave and the wood-hoop type . , Nearly all of these were built where ,a demonstration silo had previously. been erected as a ' partof the Extension work of a preceding year. · . ' , ~ .: . - • I. • ., .. • '-.. -, The agronomist for Extension attended 110 meetings, on wnich the total attendance ._ w~s 16, 013. The . assistant agronomis~ , who , giv~,!3 ,only a /part of his time to Extension w~rk, attended 29 meetings, wit~ a total, a~t.endance , of 4111. , The agronom;i~t for 'Extension has also ,acted ,as editor and ,as assistant,.in · agricultural corre,8pQndenceduring the abseneeot :the ,Director, .. who orc1inarily handles Extension correspo,ndence on field crops .. ' The assistant agronomist has acted as advance agent in arrapging for some "of .tpe Movable or Extension Schools, and both the agronomist and assistant have taken part in' a ' nwnber of these ~hoob . . ' , J" Community Programs , " . This minor, project was conducted in cooperation with 'the' division of Rural Organization of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; and was supervised by the agronomist for Extension. Programs and suggestioru3 were supplied for 150 conununity meetings and programs and outlines vere prepared. for discussion in such meetings on 22 topics in agriculture ·and home ec'onomics. ' .. • 0. .. .... Boys' Clubs . Boysf Com Clubs were ,in operation in eaqh af,..the 67 , ~unties~ with a , total enrollment of 3,870 . '~ ,-- v J " Faur-CroI? Clubs were organized in le counties, with a total enrollment of 571. Reports of yields of /corn secured have not yet been averaged. Unfavora~le weather conditions reduced the e"Pected yields and otherwise interfered with several lines of work. . ' A corn club school was held at AubUrn in July 1915 and was atte~ded by"221 boys from 64 counties. Boys' pig Club s :" f. ' " • I This work , conducted ~ in cooperation with' the Bureau, of-Animal !ndustry-,:" U. S. Department of Agriculture, has had a successful year with a considerable incr ease in the number of organized counties. The following 37 counties now conduct organized pig club work: Aut auga, Baldwin, Barbour, Blount, Bullock, ----- ------------------------------------- --- . - \ ~ Butler, Chi lton, Clay, Colbert, Coosa, Cul lman, Escambia, E towa~ , Fayette, Geneva, Hertry, Houston, Jefferson, Lamar, Lauderdal e, Lee, ' Limest one, Macon, Madison, Marengo , Marion, I~ar shall , Mobile, Morgan, Montgomery; Pickens, Pi ke, Russell" Shelby, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker. The total enrollment was 3.bout 4100, including 250 members of clubs in ' other 'counties tlian 'those mentioned above. ' Monthly' programs il~re furnished to · 69 clubs with a total membership of about 700. " (. Educational and Demonstrational Work with Hog Cholera , An ~ eXpert of the Bureau of Ainmal Industry, U. S. Depar'tmentof Agriculture; was placed at the disposal of the Extension Service for educational work with county agents and farmers on the subject of hog cholera. He was aq.vised in ' subject matter, and otherwise, by the state Veterinarian, Dr. C. A. Cary. Dr. H. C. Wilson, who has carried on this work, has visited most of the counties in the state, has given nwnerous demonstrations in inoculating hogs, and in sanitation of lots and barns, working usually in cooperation with the county demonstr~tion agents. He h8.s also fostered the ' organization of ' associations of Swine ,ra;1sers with a view to neighborhood ~ control ot' 'hog ·cholera. Within tl)e year, and partly , resulting from the activity of Dr. Itlilson, the county agents, and other eXp,erts~ there has been a ph~nomenal incre~se in the number' of hogs raised on Alabama. ' fanns, both for' home use and far sale. A packing plant established at Andalusia has been one of the incentives to increased .reliance on hog r~isfng orithe tarms' in the southern part of the state. " . , Extension Work by Speciali~ts of College and Experiment Station Arrangements were made with~n the fisc~l year, under discussion, ~or utilizing in ' E~tension work a small proportion of the time of the heads of the follOwing Departments of College and Experimen~ Station: . ' Animal Husbandry -' (Frof . Geo'. S~ ' Templeton) ; Entomology ~Dr. W. E. Hinds); , OJ Horticulture (Professor Ernest Walker) This was done in order to utilize th~ir ~ervices in Extension corre~on­dence, iIi occasional meetings, and in giving expert advice to county agents or other full- time Extension employees. t The Entomologist and hi~ a$si~tant parti~ipated ' in 116 meetings, on-which the recorded attendance was 23,800, and mailed about 2,800 letters • . The ,Horticulturist and his assistants took partin 16 meetings, ~th an attendance of 2100. Each of these men counseled with county demonstration ~gents as called on and gave expert advice to ' other member s of the EXtension force . The Animal Husbandman, besides 'tiriting 2,;no letters for Extension, was in frequent consultation with the Dair,y Expert and the Beef Cattle Expert in Extension work, botb of whom, as also the Pig Club agent, are associated in subject matter with bls department. ' - ----- - -, I I I 22.0 , Summary statement of Expenditures, by Projects, Shovling Sources of Fundsl Used Projects Administr.ation Printing & Distri­bution of Pub . County Agents Home Economics for Negro '-lomen & Girls Movable Schools & Farmers' Courses Boys' Club Work Girls I Club Work Pig Clubs Agronomist Departmental Spec. Community Programs Dairy Extension Negro Agents Marketing Agric. Engineer Beef Cattle Total: for Extension Work Total Smith-Lever College2 State2 County2 Other2 Fed. state $ 5872.00 $5872.00 1123. 48 1123. 48 45b33. 24 1353.82 $15939.68 831. 48 831048 2198. 57 4114. 64 2198. 57 3618. 24 $22109. 51 13206.89 1191. 27 2753.02 1172. 00 496. 40 7719002 1191. 27 2753.02 1172. 60 1933.90 $845. 22 $2708. 75 105. 59 1273. 61 2204. 26 448. 63 1901. 22 846.85 105. 59 1273. 61 23)4. 26 448. 63 1901. 22 846.85 $5631. 23 84278. 35 31491.82 21491082 845.22 22109. 51 2708. 75 5631. 23 1. Not including Federal Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Fund. 2. In excess of Smith-Lever Offsets. ~ :. ,: -" .1 . I, I beg leave to state that the Faculty, after due consideration recommend t he fo 11O'tving B. S. Degrees , ,,".[ Bachelor of Science Saul Perr,y ,Adelson Irvin Gravely Ammen William King Askew Thomson William Bailey Hammond Dudley Baker Harrison Bates Theodore Russell Benning Roger McIver Bostick' George Randolph Bowling HOl-lard Milton Boyd ~alliam McClellan 'Bruce Cyril Kenneth Bryan Frate Bull Hugh otis Burgess Frm cis William Burns Guy Olney Burns Charle s Cleveland Bush Hugh William Caffey Colonel Richard Carnes Abner Boone Chapman J arne s Arthur Chappell ' Mary Glenn CrenShaw Lewis Battle Dean Leo Donovan John Andrew Dougl~'s" , . Albert Hugh Dumas Julius Eagle Annalee Edwards Harrison Bartow Emerson Seth Jordan Floyd Gordon Greene Ford Joseph Marshall Foulks Loraine Walker Funk " Daniel Andrew 'Heimick Edward Beverly HenrY" James Edwin Hickey,- Jr. Lavie Pierce Hodnet~e R~ Milton House Leon Ledyard Jeffrey John William Johnston , George Allard Kaufmann James Marion KelleY; 'Jr. Captain Tullis Knight George Rufu~ Mays Lesley Bateson McCoy Thomas Turner McLemore Oscar L. McMurray Lalirence Marvin McRae James Kirk Newell John Carew Powell Homer Prendergast Graduates 1. ' Jefferson Jefferson Marengo ' Jefferson Lee South Carolina Georgia l1ississippi Tallapoosa Lee vlilcox Blount Marion Cleburne Clay Lauderdale Talladega Jefferson Marion Covington Jefferson Lee !rallapoosa • DaJ-las Mobile' Lee. Dallas r Lee Etowah Lee ' Frcnklin louisiana Sou th Carolina . Jefferson ' ," lee Montgoniery Macon !' ' Calhoun Wilcox Blount Louisiana Georgia Barbour' :Haridh ' I' ( '';' Escambia Jefferson Franklin " Chambers Tallapoosa Montgomery Texas , . 'r r _?.. ". - ..').. - B. S. B. S. William Thomson Price Bryan Pritchett James Frederick Pruett Dibble Mauley Rickenbaker Walter Hugh Roberts Carey Carlisle Robinson J arne s Donald Russell Atlee Davis Sample Abb LlewellYn Scarbrough John Hadley Scott Harry Berry Seyb t John Parker Shaffer Sylvester Guim Shari t James Edgar Shotts Frank King Simmons Augustus Hoke Sloan Harr.y Peckham sparkes William Augustus Stickney Philip Avery Terrell Richard Hartwell Thach Herbert Wright Thomason John Earle Thomason Ira Asa Thompson Lovell Lach Turley Conrs.d Gray Wall Alfred Benjamin Walter, Jr. John Meriwether Ward Jesse Jordan Warren George Egbert Weber, Jr. James Walls,ce Whatley, Jr. William Lemuel White vfueeler Williams, Jr. David A. Woodard Barbara Wright Graduates With Honor Glenn Andrews, Jr. William Watson Barrow Walter Gustavus Bevill, Jr. Roy Gatman Carpenter Ernest Linwood Deal Joseph Best Grimsley . Henry Harris House William Jesse Isbell Thomas McDonald Jone-s Thomas Jefferson J~rdan William Robert Lassiter Hester Marion Lewis William wyman Owens Allen Benjamin Pimm Eunice Rebecca Stodghill Shu Min ''lang Tuscaloosa Clarke Russell South Carolina Baldwin Lee Calhoun Morgan Calhoun Tennessee Sou th Carolina Tallapoosa Jefferson Marion Florida South Carolina Jefferson Calhoun Lee Lee Lee Lamar Pike Missouri Jefferson Louisiana Greene Montgomery Lee Lee Jefferson Russell Louisiana Lee Montgomery South Carolina Hale . Marion Tusc~loosa Georgia Etowah . ~ Lee • ..,1 Coosa J ]-1ar s,hall Lee Bibb Pike Florida Lee China C' r (. . "1,- Graduates With Highest Honor vlilli am Lee.. Blanton J arne s Roy Hine s Florida Chambers Charles L. Isbell Phares Wood Matthews Wilbur Thomas Shinholser Lamar Mims Ware Gordon \-lorley Lee Jefferson Georgia Georgia . Tallapoosa Graduates in Pharmacy. Ph. G. Ph.G. Leslie Allen"Akins Charle s r1B.rtin Cherry Ernest Matkin Dunn James Thomas Farmer Henry Carl Fischer' Pugh Bryan Harris Glover Abraham Johnston George Lawrence Morris Byron Ross McBryde Henry Erskine McNamara Rhett Goode Reynolds Carl Vernon .Tanner Graduates Charle~ George Yarbrough . Barbour Houston Marengo Geneva Cullman Pike Cherokee Crenshaw '" _G~neva Jefferson Crenshaw Mobile Monroe Graduat~s in veterlnary Medicine, ~ D. V.M. D.V.M. .. . '. -, Dee Lloyd Allen William Elmer Bachelor Carey Linwood Bell Daniel Lorenzo Campbell Elmer Bernard Campbell Billy Elza Carlisle Hosmer Lafayette Farr Coudie Pugh Gaston Robert Henry Glenn Leonard Johnston Hill Thaddeus Henry Ingram, Jr. Byron Newman Lauderdale Harmon King ~w . r William Lonnie Parrish Leon Lewis Powell Walter James Schimmel Edward Hemter Welles Post Graduate Degrees ( Master of Science ;- M. S. · James Warren Andrews Joseph Calloway Frank Kitchell Nexbitt Samuel Andrew Wingard Sumter Elmore ~ North Caro lina Marrshall Marshall Macon Jefferson Wilcox South Carolina Ca:lhoun Lee Coosa Pike Chilton Choctaw Jefferson t · Tennessee t Montgomery­Montgomery Jefferson Hontgoroory , ,. o • , '. . r. :-' Professi onal Degr ees in Course . Charles Hereford Giimann Percy Reynolds Smith Civil Engineer Electrical Engineer Lee Irwin Davis Harr,y Gordon Farris Thomas Christopher Rives Edward Gatchell George Lampros Mechanical Engineer • r Jefferson Jefferson Mobile Etowah Montgomery Lee 110ntgQmery . ,. r " The Budget for the Term 1917-1918 , Endowment 2nd Morrill state Funds Hatch Adams LOcal Lever Total Fees, Etc. EXj). . $20,280 $28,550 $40,000 $15, 000 $15,000 President Thach, C. C. 12 mos. 3,000 1,400 600 $5, 000 Mathematics • . .. Cr enshaw,B.H. 9mos. 1,000 1,000 roo 2,200 Ci vil Engineer Mitcham,G. N.9 mos. 1,000 1,000 200 t · 2, t5Jol- History & Latin 125 Supt . Chmn. Ex. Com. Waterworks Petri e, Geo. 9 mos. 2,000 600 ))0 2,900 Meehan. Engineer Supt. Grounds . I Wilmore,J. J .9 mos. 1,700 900 2, 600 Phys. Vet. Sci. & State Vet. Cary, C.A. 12 mos. 400 1,400 600(st. Vet. 5(0) .T 2,400,l Pharmacy 300 Serum Blake, L. S. ~v Plant 9 mos. 1,800 200 ... 2,000 Ag. & Director of ,. 'I"" Station Duggar,J. F. 12 mos. 1,600 500 1,000,l 3,4001- E1ec. Engineer . - 300 Lev. Res • Dunstan,A. St C. 9mos. 2,000 " 200 2, 200 Geol. & Mining Engineer Brown, R. L. 9 mos. 300 1,800 T 2,100 Mod. Languages . Wiatt, J . E. 9 mos. 1,800 400 2,200 Botany Robbins, \v. J . 12 mos. 1,000 Physi cs 100 900 2, 000 Duns t an,A. St . C. 9 mos . 1, OOO 1, 000 -- - --"- - - --------- Endowment. 2nd Morril l state Funds Hatch , Adams Hort. & state Hort. $ ~ starcher, G. C. 12 mos. 2nd Prof. Math. Messick, J . F. 9 mos. Architecture Biggin, F. C. 9 mos. Entomology Hinds, W. E. 12 mos. Mathematics Patrick, B. S. 9 mos. 700 Prof. Chemistry Ross, E. B. 12 mos. 1,000 · Clerk 'Chem. t Chern. of Soils Prof. pnys. Chem. Hare, G. L. 12 mos. 600 Prof. Anal. Chem. Bragg, ~ T . Asst. Prof. Chern. Powell, P. P. 12 mos. A.nal. Chemist Jackson, J .B. 12 mos. Asst. in Chem. in Adams Exp. 12 mos. Assts. in Chem. Martin & Clift 12 mos. Asst. in Chem. Feedstuffs 12 mos. Fror. Mech. Draw. and Ma~h . Design Fullan, M. T. 12 mos. 950 Prof. Elee. & Tel. Engr. Hill, W. W. 12 mos. 700 Inst. Mech. Engr. & Math .. Stokes, W. B. Asst. in Drawing & Band master Thomas; A. L. 9 mos. Instr., in Woodwork Askew,· ~'. A.. Dir. & Prof. Phys. CuI. Ins. in Latin & Math. Donahue', H. J . Prof. Animal Husbandry Templeton, G. S. 12 mos. Prof. Educa. (Dir. & prof. Summer Session) Judd, Z. V. 12 mos. Asst. Prof. An. Husb. Ferguson, H. C. 12 mos. Herdsman Ford Morris, 12 mos. Assoc. Prof. Hort. St. Hort. Pr i ce, J.C. 12 mos. , . $ 1, 100 1,000 1,000 700 300 650 750 state Hort. 500 700 Fees; Etc: - 450 900 1,000 300 ~ 100 1, 400 100 1,800 2)0 400 , , . 900 200 2)0 1, 400 700 1,200(Ath. Dir. 700) 1, 2)0 1, 300 100 1,000 100 65o 300 (Feedstuff s 800) 400 1,300 (Power Plant 5qo) 750 t 1,500 900 3'. 250 725 400 --------------------------------------- - ------------- . ' Local Lever Total }?cp. 0 $ $ $ 30.0 ,- 1?0 f,2 20f Resid. ~ 1,900 2~ OOO 900 .300 31°00 ~ , . . 1,500 3,000 200 2;000 -2 200 I. . i ,500f ~ 700 1,200 1,300 , 850 • . l,ooof I Scholar ship ~O I Cle rks~Bt 0 , 800 ~ t 2,000 , · 2,ooof • ~ O . 1, 500 • < ~ JL,.5 00 ' ,=," 9.00 ·.HIe .tmageli .L), 1. ( - 1.0 Endowment ~ 2nd Morrill -state Funds Hatch · Adams - Local Lever Total . . Fee s, Et c. ~. $2) ,280 $28 , .5.50 $40, 000 $1.5, 000 $15,000 . "'sst~. Vet. Sci. HcAdory, I . S. Ferguson, C. \v. Webb, w. w. Sugg) R. s. 4300 Prof ~ Agronomy Funchess, M. J. 12 mos. Treasurer Gl enn, M. A. 12 mos. 650 . - 750 As st. to Treas. Inst . in Botany Hassey, A. B. 12 mos. Asst. Entomo1. Thomas, F. L. 12 mos. As st., in Pharmacy Hotley, E. T. 12 mos. Scho4r ship s (l)Con. (2) Engl. (3 {Hi~tory (4) Bot. ( 4-2 )Hort. (5)Hecho Arts (6)Shop (7)Forg. (8)Mining & C. E. (9)Mach. Des. (10)Chem. (11) An. Husbandry (ll!) Waterworks (l2) (a)Botany(b)Agricult. Recording Clerks Burbage , Reed,Thomas 750 Registrar & Asst. in Math. Shi, B. L. stenog. to the Pres. Bush &-Goodbread Asst. Prof. Math. Shi, B. L. 12 mos. Libr~ian, Prof. Eng. Rutland, J .R. 9 mos. 550 Prof. Educa. & Prof. Summer Session Blasingame ,W. C. 12 mos. Asst. ~Librarian Miss Martin 12 mos. A sst s ~ Hist. & Latin Reynolds & Andrews Surgeon Dr. J ... H. Drake Instr. Physics Elec. -Engineer 9 mos. Instr. Mech. Eng. & Shop Hixon, C. R. 9 mos. . I $4, 300 (McAdory 1500) 4.50 500 1,5.50 1,000 100 500 1,000 100 500 100 500 700 300 ?,OOO 350 1QO 1,760 Treas •. Dep. n~oto e~8ea 2,000 300 . 1., 400 500 300 . .1 , 4. 00 . . 500 .. . :. 3,000 (a)Bot. (50) 300 700 1, 000 1,050 2,400 t 650 1,.300 2i.500 750 1, 300 (b )Agr. (tOO 6 {c 20 250 750 ~ 1 20b '. 2.,400" . 90b 1, .300 • 2~.50P. . 750 The Budget 1917-18 Endowment 2nd Morrill state Funds Hatch ,Adams Local !.ever Total - Fees, Etc. .' - - '. . -- !?F. $20 , 280 $28.,-550 ', - $40 , 000 $15, 000 $15,000 First Assto in Engl. Taylor, W. R. Second Asst. in Engl. Asst. in C. E. Stelzenmuller, J . G. 9 mos. Asst. to Alumnus Lovelace, J .B. 9 mos. Night W'atchman Asst. Library Scholarships Secy. Trustees Burton, R. W. Asst. in Mili~ Band 100 1,200 360 TOTALS: $16, .550 $23,665 ,BALANCE: 3,730 4,890 I' 1,500 750 000 265 250 $49,930 c. 1~ .500 750 1,200 coo 625 100 $90,140 r 1425] 860 Feedstuffs 91,.565 .500 Wate~rks 125 Waterworks * .. .. -- - ...... Appropriatibrts ,for Maintenance - t Ag. (Teaching & Experiment) 400 400 (i for Farm Management . . COO Arch. 100 t. Advertising & Rrinting 6.50 3.50 Animal Husbandry 1,100 1,100 900<: t ~ Botany ~ 400 100 , 8'00 Chemistry 3,600 100 -- --300 ' -.. . :. , , Chemistry of ~ Soils and Phys. C. Eng. 100 Commencement 300 .. --- ~:...- - -- Comer Hall 2:)0 Donnitories 1,~3 , Education 2.50 Elec. Engr. 200 ~ Entomology . ,lOa 106 850 Expense 600 300 :. Farmers' Inst. 300 Fuel 400 2,600 370 355 Grounds & Repair s 400 200 0 High School 250 Horticult. 200 900 Insurance 400 600 Infirmary 400 ... /"), , -' The Budget Appropriat i ons for Maintenance 1917-18 Endowment 2nd Morrill State ' Funds Hatch, Adams lo cal leve r To tal Feesz _ Etc . Exp . Labor (Coll. & , ':. Ag. Hall) 400 600 Library 800 400 400 . Mechanics 1, 200 Military 200 Mining Engr. 100 Music 200 Pharmacy 500 . , Physics 100 Plant Pa.tho1ogy 450 . : r Postage 150 300 ", Publications 1,500 .. " f -:1"" ... ......... ' .J Soils 100 Summer School for ~ . Fanners 400 ~ rl '"' .. ~ Summer Session • _ ~ J. - . " of College \ 2, 500 Stationery & Contingent 250- t 400 ~ , Cont ingent 225 Tr avel fo r Exp. station 300 - t t Trustees 400 Vet. Sci. 200 Water Works 200 32700 42 ~OO 1711°8). Total: 25, 633 f • Income : Endo'Wl11ent Second Morrill sta.te Bonds Feed Stuffs Oil Tax Miscellaneous Fees $20 , 280 28 , 550 40, 000 1, 200 800 12, 500 $103, 330 17 , 657 $121, 987 " r " The following changes were approved: ' Appropriations: Salaries Main tenance . $91, 000 25,633 $li6, 633 Balance (Estimated) 5, 354 (a) r ,r'1' , , Appropri ation of $LOO.OQ from Ha.tch fund was made on salary of Prof : _;pT,' • Chemistry, Head of Dept. of Chemistry, in lieu of equal amount f rom College (b) (c) (d) funds . I . Appropriation fO.r Chemis.t of Soils made for 2000. 00 Appropriation for Asst. Chemist 6f Soils made for $850. 00 ,- r An increase of $200 . 00 for fali from funds other than college. " " .f REPORT OF THE TRF...ASURER of ALABAMA POLY1~CHNIC INSTITUTE ~for THB YEAR 1916-17 • > Endowment, Morrill, state and College Funds To Endowment Fund To Morrill Fund • Re·c eip"ts : To State and College Funds To Amount of Overdraft 0 $ 20,280.00 27,900.00 97,053. 36 15,436. 29 $160 , 669. 86 Disbursements By Endo'WITlent Fund By Morrill Fund By state and College Funds $ 20,280.00 27,900. 00 1121489.86 $160,669. 86 To Cash from State ." .. EndoWll'lent Fund Receipts · - • . t Disburse~nts • By Amount Paid Salaries . o · • Morrill fund R~ceipts To Cash from State Pt· - o DisOur.sements By Amount paid Salaries state and eollege Fund Receipts To State Fund To Incidental Fees To Tuition Fees To Laboratory Fees To Surgeon Fees To Librar.y and Interest To Farm Products To Horticulture To E:xpense . . (Bonds) $ 20,280. 00 . $ 20,280. 00 $ 27, 900 .00 $ 27 , 9000 00 ,,., , $40, 000.00 4, 197. 50 2,508. 00 3, 390. 40 4,295. 00. 2,876. 25 648 .·24 359 .,50 1", 938. 30 , . state and College Fund Receipts, Continued To Animal Industry To Chemistry To Pharmacy To Veterinary To Civil ~ngine~rtng To Architecture To Feed stuff To Smith Hall To Power Plant and Lights To Summer Session To Water 1-lorks To Athletics To Laundry To Oil Tax To Amount Overdraft " - . . . . ,$3, 170. 14 262.10 152. 54 561. 45 84. 75 10. 00 BoO.oo 2,0.07 . 35 6,593.09 2,667 . 75 1,705. 13 5,010. 50 1,104. 94 12,710. 43 15,436. 50 stat~ ~d College Funds Dispur sement s . By Amo:unt paid Salaries _. - , . $47,565. 29 By Amount 'Infirmary 471. 08 By Amount Library 861. 54 By Amount Horticulture ,258. 88 By Amount Th>nnitories 4,445. 00 By Amount Expense 2,998. 46 By Amount Commencement Expense 812. 05 By Amount Printing and Advertising 3,042. 65 By Amount Animal Industry . 4,092. 77 By Amount Chemistry 4,457 . 58 By Amount $lectrica1 Engineering 309. 83 By Amount ' Mechanica1 Engineering 1,408. 75 By Amount Farmers' Institute 385. 87 By Amount Fuel ·5, 563 ~ 56 By Amount Grounds and Repairs 5,016. 21 By Amount Insurance 1, 657. 00 By Amount $ervants and Janitors 1,031. 00 By Amourit "'l-1Ui tary 567. 92 By Amount Mining Engineering . 184030 By Amount Pharmacy 852.10 By Amo~t fhysics 112. 83 By Amourit Postage 863. 55 By Amount Stationer.y 1, 021. 99 By Amount Trustees 311. 29 By Amount Veterinar.y 1, 438. 36 By Amount Summer School (Farmers) 545. 87 By Amount Watchman ~ 683. 32 By Amount Civil,. Enganeering 310. 89 By Amount Architecture 413. 72 By Amount Entomology 62. 20 By Amount Agricultural College 612. 96 By Amount Botany 657'. 35 By Amount Comer. Hall 823. 25 By Amount Music ~ , 374. 68 By Amount Broun. Hall 44. 21 r t. J. state and College Funds Di sbur sements, Continued By Amount Feed stuffs BY, Amount Smith Hall . By Amount Power Plant and Lights Bi' Amount Summer' Session By Amount Machine Design By Amount Waterworks and Sewerage By Amount Athletics By Amount High School By Amount Education Signed: Respectfully, $ 800.00 1,113.89 4,047.9? 6,292.50 618.83 809.33 5,010.50-. 473.67 864.85 $112,489.86 M. A. Glenn, Treasurer The following report was made and accepted: Waterworks Office Supt. Education' Montgomery. .... { July 2J, 1916 __ .... 1 ! meeting of the Executive Committee of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute called to consider waterworks and water for ce~lege. Mr. \4. F. F'eagin elected chairman and Mr. W. K. Terry, secretary of meeting. . ' Present: Hessrs. T. D. Samford, W. F. Feagin, Harry Herzfeld, W. K. Terry, Dr. Chas. C. Thach, and Prof. G. N. Mitcham. , , . • of' The Governor being sick and unable to attend, Dr. Chas~ C. Thach, the president, stated that he had had a survey made of various projects, conSisting of wells; creek water, etc., and comparative costs. }IT. Mitcham, engineer, made a statement of v~rious , propos~tions and desira­bilit. Y and advantages of each and recommended the drilling of three wells ,and deepen­ing of reservoirs. Upon motion, the recollmendations of Professors Mitcham, Wilmore, and Ros s to drill three wells was concurred in and the President of the college "was authorized to proceed with the drilling of the wells, provided the money could be obta:Lned wi th which to do so. -Upon motion, Mr. Feagin, ' Mr. SariLford, Dr. Thach ani Mr. Mitcham were 'appointed as a committee to go before the GoVernor and present the proposition and endeavor to get the necessary funds for the undertaking. (Signed} I, wm. F. Feagin, Tem. Chairman W. K. Terry, Seely. ' ---------- -- -- -- - - - - --- Auburn, Alabama, August 3, 1916. The committee appointed by the Board of Trustees for considering water supply met in President's office Thursday, Aug. 3 at 11:30 . ~ Mr. L. C. Dew, of Fort McPherson, Ga. , an. experienced well driller in hard rock, appeared, by invit~tiop, before t he committee and discussed the matter of drilling wells. ' After discussion, the C~>nlInittee voted to accept the propo si tion made by Mr. Dew. State of Alabama Lee County. , This agreement made and entered into this the 3rd day of April 1917, by and bettieen L. C. Dew, Contractor, hereinafter called the party of the first part and the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, hereinafter called t!le party of the second part witnesseth: , . J .... That the party of the second part has agreed and by these presents does agree for the considerations hereinafter set forth to furnish ,all l~bor, ~,chinery, tools, pipe, and other equipment and supplies, except as ~erein~ter specified, and to drill and complete to the satisfaction of the party of the second part a certain w.e~l, 8 inches diameter, at a point near the Binford Spring to be . se-lected by the party of the secong.. part. } '1 The party of the second part agrees to pay and the party of the f~st- p~t agrees to accept as full compensation for rendering the service , aqove ~en~io~ed the follmving prices, to wit: . For use of machinery ~d' equipment and fqr pers6n;~i ~eryices of t~e'- party of the first part Seven Dollars ($7.00) for each day worked until completion of said well; for services of three helpers '5.00 for each day worked • . For pipe used for casing, oil, ' dTayage, . actual cost to party of the first part. The party of the second part agrees to 9pay bills for labor, dr~age, pipe, and 9il we~ldy, or on ·demand as bills are pre sented by t~ party of . the first _ part and approved by the engineer in charge of the work, and to pay the remainder on completion of the well. The party of the secorrl . part agrees to furnish coal am water for the boiler used in the w:nk. { .. It is understood and agreed by both p~ties to this contrac~ that the ser­vice to be rerrlered under this contract shall be terminated when the well shall have been completed to tl}e sati,sfactiol! of . the engiI}eer in charge and the equip­ment shall have been dismantled ~d prepared for transportation to town, provided that the party of the second part &1aJ.l pay, for teams engaged in tranSl'orting equipment to railway station. . . , In wi tness wher~oii we qave her:ein.to set our hands this the third day of April 1917. (Signed) Witness: G. P. Edwards L. C. Dew, Party of the First Part The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Part,y of the Second Part By Chas. C. Thach , Pres. _ .1 Auburn, Ala., M,. ay 29, 1917. Dr. Cha~ . C. Thach, President Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn, Ala. Sir: , . . I have the honor to submit the following report of work &me in securing an additional supply of wa~er: ,The Mitchell Spring Project . , During the summer of 1916 surveys were made with. a view to securing a supply of water from a large spring on the land ,of G. G. Mitchell, ·Jr. , three miles . southeast of our Binford Spring- Pun~ing .Station. Ga~gings made on the flow in June. 1916 indicated that the flow. from that spring is 300 gall~ns per minute· - ­( 432000 . gallons per day); and the ,testimony .of several persons familiar wit,h the locality i~dicates that it does not decrease enough at any time to be n~ticeable . It was estimated that the cost of protecting the spring against pollution, installing pipe lines, purnps, transmissio~lin~, .etc. , would be approximately $15,000. 00, not including the cost of the necessar.y real estate. When we approached the owner to 'secure, a~ , option on th~ property, he advised that. he had already given an opt;i.on on 'it to apother .,Party; ,and on tpe same day he. advis.ed me that an outing club ha~e~ercised their option and pought the· place. The Moore's Mill Creek 'Project ,~ We then investigated ~h~ feasib~lity of secu~ing a supply of water from Moore's Mill Creek, filtering it, and pumping into our surface reservoir at Binford Spring. A good dam site was found on the old Binford Place and another on the Sinunons Place, the next place down the creek, either one being approximately one mile ·from ~e Binford Spring. After making ,surveys of the reservo,ir to be created- at each p;t.ace it was' estiJnated that th~ cost of, dam, ... pipe line, . pumps, transmission line, and filters would be approximately $15,000. 00 no~ including cost of land, the titles of which were in an unsatisfactor.y }.egal- state. Other surface water supplies were inspected and where deemed worthy of further in­vestigation surveys were made; but none of ~hese were deemed worth improvement • . r The Deep Well ~:roj act . An estima'te was made ba'sed on drilling three wells' on the campus <, con,'":' structing a. concrete surf-ace resezyoir and. :i:.pstal1;i.ng pUlUpS ,to raise t he water from the surfa'ce reservoi.r toyhe e1e~ated- tank • . We, secured inforJlJ4.~on from -a number of towns where water had been secured in adequate quantities from similar ~ geological, formations ; and, on .the strength of" ;this ~nfo:rmation we b~iieved that we would ·be able to secure as mucha-s 100 gallo~s a minute (l.44.,000 'gallons per day) from three wells. The several projects were carefully copsiq.ered by the president and an advisor,y committee composed of Professors' Ross, Wilmore, and Mitcham; and as we bel~ev~tt that ,R satisfactory supply o~ . p~re water, without filtration, . co~d be secured fI'9m the de.ep wells for ~n inij-ial cost of ~pro:rlmate1y $10,000. 00," this plan was recommended to the executive committee. of the Board of Trustees. - , A contract was let to Mr. L. C. Dew, a contractor with much experience in drilling wells in similar formations, to drill three wells 8 inches diameter . Under the contract he· was to receive $) . 50 per foot for the first well and $3.00 a foot for any additional wells which might be required, the college to furnish coal and water for his boiler and to furnish any teams required in moving his equipment. Well No. 1 On 3eptembe~ 11, 1916, the contractor began drilling Well No.1, located about IOOfeet back of the Power House, and completed it to ~ depth of 508 feet on ~Tovember 8th. Hard rock was found at a depth of 45 feet, and the drilling', thereafter was in mica-schists and gneiss of varying hardness. The well was t ested with a 3-inch eduction pipe used in connection with an air lift pump. \vith .300 feet, of eduction. pipe and an air pressure of 65 pounds per square inch 36 'gallons of::'Water were secur~d a minute. vTith a 400 foot eduction pipe and with 85 pounds air pressure 40i gallonso wer~ secure~. These yields w~re measured after the p~p had' been running, long 'enough to remain constant ~d we were satisfied that tpe water was being supplied as fact as it was being pumped out. " It was decided that it v]Quld be most 'economical to pump at the rate of 36 gallons per minute; and that rate is g~ven as the ' operating capacity of the well. ' The riext well was drilled in the:. rear of t he College Library and was begun on November 10, 1916, and drilled to a depth" of 510 feet . The geological cO'l1ditions were practically the same ' as in Well No. 1; but only e gallons 'of water a minute could be obtained, the test being made by boiling water with the sand pump, the water being held practically stationary at the' 400 foot level. This well gives so little water that for t~e present it is not considered advisable to make any attempt ,to use it in connection with the other wells. Well No . 3 Well No. 3 was paid for by' the Alumni Associa~ion, and was drilled near the Gymna:sium with a view to using it for supplying the swimming poo1 ~ The geo­logical comi tions are similar and the well WaS drilled 350 feet deep and yields 162 gallons- per minute. . Well No . 4 The supply obtained from the first three wells not being as large as hoped for, it was decided to try two wells in t~ b,asin supplying the Binford Spring. Well No-. 4 was drilled 40 feet to the north of. the spring basin and is 126 feet deep ami. yields 90 gallons a minute, the wate'r ' standing after 18 hours ' pumping 38 feet· below the surface • . This well" and Well No. ' 5 were drilled under a new contract whlchprovided for the college to pay for all labor and supplies and to allow $7.00 a day for Mr. Dew's services and rental on his' outfi t o A great many difficuLtiew were encountered in drilling this well, the time required being 37 days. Well No. ' 5 was located about 100 feet south of the Binford Spring basin, fs 145 feet deep ~d yields 95 gallons a minute. All, of the water, however, 'is received at the 125 foot level. ----------------------------- - --- - ------ Total Wat er Supply Devel oped t I estimate tha"tt in times .oJ: ~ong .dr.Quth .and ~ovT yield -.from .the Binford Spring we will have :water. av:a:Uable, ,as .follows:. . . . . .. , .. < • c From Binford Spring •••••••••.••••••••.• • • •• .•••• 6o,ooo gals. per day From Large Well, 38 ft. diame'ter, 25' fee't deep •• 26,ooo gals. per day 'From Well No. 1, on campus •••••••••••••• ��� ••••• • • 51, 000 gals. per day From Well No . ' 3, on campus ••••• • ••••• •• ••••••••• 23 , OOO gals. per day From Well No . 4, at Binford Spring ••••• ••• ••••• 130,000 gals. per day From Well No ., 5, at Binford Spring ... . .... ; •••• 137,000 gals. per day Total: 427,000 gals. per day o T~is estimate is ~ based · upbn the assumption that equipment will be provided to pump water from the deep wells and that it will b~ run' 24 hours a day if . needed. • ; Equipment for Pi.unping Deep WeRs' The . deep ~ wel:ls at ,Binford Spring can be best developed by one of two systems: ' . . "' - . r'''' 0.) By excavating a well with .concrete lining, 3 feet, in di~eter down :to level where water stands when giving capacity above stated, i . e . , about 40 fe et below surface and installing therein a centrifugal pump for each well, the pumps having a vertical shaft, being directly connected to an electric motor, and pump­ing water from the wells direct into the pumping main. 0 " (2) By ,installing an air-compressor in the pump house, with electric motor, piping Wells 4 and 5 for air lift systems and pumping with compressed air into the surface ·reserv9ir now existing. ' The latter system could be carried ' out at comparatively little eJq)ense by using temporarily the compressor now forming a part of the mechanical laboratory, and also using a small spare motor which may be available. . ') , . ' r Cost of Wells Well NQ;. l • 1,1 t Paid L. C. Dew for Drilling 'and Casing •••••• "• • • •• '. : •••• ; ••• $1, 750. 00 Miscellaneous Expense" Team's" Labor ••••••• • •••••.• • ••••••• ~ 70 . 75 Pipe, F it ting s, and Cement ........ .............. . ....... '. ~ • • 157. 58 . Total, ' not including coal i~, 918 . 33 Well No. 2 '.' t : Drilling •... . .. . .. . ....•. : ••............... . •. . ' ... .. ' .....•. $ i,,5c>o. 00 , . Well No . 3 . Drilling (Paid for by Athletic Society) • •. •• • ••• • • ••••••••• $ 1,050. 00 , Well No. 4 Drilling (Paid for by Athletic SOciet.y} ••••. . . . •• . ••••••••• $ 772. 00 Well No. 5 Drilling an d CaSl·. ng ••.....•.. ...••.•••.••.••..••••' ......••.•• $ 587. 37 • I • -, I Well No . 5, Conti nued Labor and Drayage •••••••••• •. .. •. .•••.•••••.••••• ~ ••••• .-.$ 14. 75 Pipe and Fittings ••••••• •...•.• • . •••••••••••••••••••••••• - 54. 97 $6>7. 09 • Note: None pf the abpv~ items include coal • . .. ' ,.' . .. - ..... Respectfully submitted, .(S;igned) . . . .. . G. N. -l1itcham,. Engineer . . ~ •• r-'" The following report Was made and accepted: Birmingham, Ala. , April- 5,1917. Dr. Chas·. C. Thach, President, Auburn, Ala. Dear Dr. Thach: - Complying with my promis.e to a proposition to Auburn with electric current from our lines, I beg this matter. with care and think I might -be able to on the following terms and conditions, to wit: serve · you and the Town of to say that I have gone over ge t our compariy to serve you (a) The college to sell u~ the town distribution system at its value for cash. - (b) The town to grant us our standard franchise to do an electric light and power business. (c) The town to malre a contract for ten years ·with us for its· street lights. (d) The . college to buy all its current fram us for pumping its wat~r and water for the town and for college ·uses. .' . (e) The prices at which you would get current would be on our regular " ~ terms, as shown on enclosed contract blank. In addition to the above, if the college wishes to retain part of its present steam and electric equipment for heating its buildings, for teaching steam and electrical engllleering, which it no doubt would do, then we might buy at value sucq otq~r .:AA.z:t~ .Qt: y,qur. .atea.m ,and electrical e"qi1ipment as y.ou . did not want to ~etain ~qq .a~ ,~e .m~ght~a _ab~~ .to use~ and give you a credit for the sal1J9 to be tq,ken up .:Lll .c.~r:r.t:UJ.t .aa Y.QU. .may. .need .it .till the debt is dis­charged. I thin¥\ yo~ Would have some " steam and electricaJ,. machinery lie might be able to use and 'Which you would not need. Our service would be day and night, twenty-four hours; the price for the ci ty consumers w.ou1~ be .~O .. c.eAt ,s, ;Le.s"s. A .d,is.c.ou.n.t .o.f. 10.% £or. ~.nt in ten. days from rendition of bills at the end of each month, thus giving a net rate for lighting of 9 cents, with certain quantity discounts, as per our standard lighting schedule, the same as we give everywhere else. ~ .. D • • • • • • • .. • • • c .' .. . If you care to do so , you might talk this matter over with your Trustees and if they approve I will put it before our company and think I can get the approval here on this basis • .. Trusting to he ar from you at your pleasure, I am, with best wishes, Your s truly, (Signed) R. A. Mitchell Enclosure - --- ------------ - - --- ----- ---- • ) ' ,> (:. , ).0 Birmingham, Ala. , April 11, 1917. Dr. Chas. C. Thac h~ ' Preside nt~ Alabama Polytecnru.c ' Institute, Auburn ,- Al-a; . . , , . . . . . . . , .. .. . Dear Dr. Thach, • • . .. . . .... .. tI Your letter of the 7th instant received. As much as we ~uld like to submit you the alternative proposition ~icli:you suggest, of selling you electric current in bulk for distriouti6n 'oy' tne college to Auburn, we feel that it wo~ld be utterly impossible ' £6r' us ' tQ ' ao ' so 'without ' great ' l oss; We have figured on this c arefiilly ' am L the' small ' amount· of' current.· which' would be used at Auburn, and the small amount of money such a contract would produce, would hardly pay us the fixed charges
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spelling 1917 [pdf for printing]: Board Minutes of the Alabama Polytechnic InstituteAuburn University (formerly Alabama Polytechnic Institute); Board of TrusteesMinutes of the Board of Trustees meetings held in 1917AUQurn, Alabama, February 22, 1917. The Board of Trustees of t he ~labama Polytechnic Institute met in session at the Institution in Auburn, Feb~ 22qd, 1917, at 10:30 o'clock, pursuant to the Resolution of the Board adopteq June 15, 1916, namely; that February 22nd should be the dat e of the mid-year me~ting of the Board o . . The follmri.ng members werE? present : . . Govern~r Chas. Henderson, Messr·s. -L. D. Samford, W. K. Terry, Vi. H. Oates, C. S. McD01rVell, C. W. Sherrod, and Harry Herzfeld, a quorum. (1) After a full discussion, on motion, it was resolved that the matter of entering into a contract with the Alabama" Power Company to supply the college with elect ric current for the purposes of po"!.~r and ·.light be referred to the Executive Comrnittee o (2) The question of accepting for the student body of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute an invitation to atte~d tge proposed preparednes~ parade in the city of. Birmingham, after full discussi9n was, on motion, referred to the Faculty. The cordial tr:an}~s ~f t~e I~ sY,i.tut~9~_~~ re expressed for the invitation'. . There being no further business the Board adjourned to attend the Senior Class Day Exercises in Langdon Hall. (This memorandum transmitted by direction of the B0ard through President Thach to R. W. Burton, SecretaTYI -Bpc+rd of Trustees.) .. Auburn, Alabama, June 11, 1917. The Board of Trustees of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute met in regular ses~ion at the Institute in Auburn, June 11, 1917) at 10:30 o'clock a.m., His Excellency Governor Charles Henderson, President ex-off., in the chair. • t In the absence of the secretary, Mr. Wo K. Terry was appointed 'secretary pro tern. The roll \iaS called and the foll owing members ansvlered to their names: - ... { .. Gov. Henderson and Messrs. A. W. Bell, Harry Herzfeld, C. H. Sherrod, C. S. McDowell, W. K. Terry, L. D. Samford, and P. S. Haley. Eight present, a .... t quorum. Announcement was made of the death of Dr. Jas. • Anderson, Chemist of the Experment Station, and President Thach of the Institute was requested to draft suitable resolutions on his deat"h.. t tt ' . A resolution of sympathy with Mr. R. W. Burton, secretar,y to the Board, who was absent on account of illness, was offered and passed on motion. President Thach was instructed to convey this resolution by telegram to Mr. Burton. The rrdpute.s of previous ses's~ons held June 5, 1916, and Feb. 22, 1917, were read and appr oved. - . . ._- It was moved and carried that the Faculty of the Institute be authorized to confer degrees as they recommended to the Board. -, At 11 o'clock a.m. the Board took recess to attend tbe graduating exercises of the cla~s of 1917. The Board reoonvened 'at one 0" clock p.m. ~ President Chas. C. Thach, of the Institute, presented his annual report, together with the budget for the ensuing 'year, the report of the wOFk done on the Experiment Station, Local Experimentation, Extension Service, Smith-Lever De­partment, Waterworks Department, the report of the Treasurer and of the heads of all other departments. Upon motion, this report was referred to the Standing Committee on President's Report, namely, Hessrs. Feagin, Samford, Ter'ry, and McDowell. . . ! K0 r'- l - It was moved by Mr. Samford that President Thach be instructed to express /to · j the authorities of the University of Alabama appreciation of the honor and courte¢ in conferring the degree of LLD on Mr. W. F. F.eagin, member of the Board. ~10tioI}i prevailed. Mr. Herzfeld offered the following preamble and resolution, which were adopted by motiQn: / ( vmereas, Hon. W. F. Feagin has for many years rendered faithful service to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute as an Ex-officio member of the Board of TrusteES, as well as to all the other educational institutions and interests of Alabama. And whereas, he will shortly sever his connection with the Alabama Poly­technic Institute as a. member pf the Board of Trustees, Be it Resolved, That this Board hereby tender its sincere thanks and that of the college to Hon. W. F. Feagin for his untiring' efforts in behalf of this institution and does express its deep regret of the necessity of losing his valuable assistance in directing its affairs. By it further Resolved, That these resolutions be entered on the minutes of the proceedings of the Board and. the secretary send a copy to the Press for publication and a suitable copy to Hon. W. F. Feagin. Upon motion, Board adjourned to 3 o'clock p.m. Afternoon Session Pursuant to adjournment, the Board resumed its sitting at 3 o'clock p.m. Eight members were present. The following communication from the Bank of Auburn was read and, on motion, was referred for further consideration to the Executive Corrmittee: - Jo the Honorable Board of Trustees, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Gentlemen: ( The Bank of Auburn respectfully applies to your honorable body to be designated as a depository for at least a portion of the funds of the AlabawA Pol ytechnic Institute, and assures you that it is prepared to handle this bu~in'ess in a thoroughly safe and satisfactory manner. ----- ----------------------------- ------- ------- -- A large proportion of the stock -of the Bank of Auburn is Dwned byl alumni of the institution, who invested in this enterprise more than t en years ago, in order that the town of Auburn, the students and members of the Faculty should be able to enjoy the advantages of adequate banking facilit~es, which were so much needed at that time. During this period of time, this bank has conducted its business along safe, prudent and conservative lines, and' enJoys the confid~c~ not only of the local community, but of the Banking Fraternity of the state. t Since its establishment this bank has made its. facilities available f.or the needs of the locality and for the whole 'college community and has rendered valuable aid in financing such impor.tant enLerprise ~ as the Alumni Gymnasium Building, the Auburn Alumni Association, etc. We submit that the handling of the funds of the College woul d be greatly ficilitated oy having at least a portion of ' the funds in a local ' depository so that it would be unnecessary to transmit funds by eXpreS6 at the risk of undue delay-, whenever such funds are needed for the college business. In case the Bank ofa. Auburn is entrusted with any portion of the college funds, it stands ready to assure protection to the institution by providiftg i ndemnity bonds to any desir~d amount. 'TIhanking you for your care'ful consideration of this matter we are, -- ~ --==-~== Very respectfully, sis. L. Toomer, President W. D. Martin, Cashier REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPCR T We, the Committee on the President's Annual Report, beg leave to report as follows: ~ "L~", ~ <:!:o~~'I: ~ "'~~ '~~--.:;:;.~~ ~~ "'~ .... ~-,;: ""' ..... ">...~~""- ~~ -,.,~~~< •• ;~~=.."" _~" :''''''~~-:<::>' ~~ also recommend that the Prof essor s- be conf1rmed as f ollows: George C. Starcher, Professor of Horticulture Frederic C. Bi egin, Professor of Architecture (2) We recommend the adoption of the President's Budget for the ensuing year. , I (3) We recommend the adoption of the Hatch and Adams Budget as furnished by the President. (4) We recommend' the adoption of the President's Report on the Local Experiment Work. (5) We recommend the adoption of the President's Report on Extension Work. (6) We reco~nend the adoption of the President's Report on the Treasurer's Statement. t (7) l!Je recommend that the leave of absence of Professor B. A. Wooten be extended for apother year without salary that he may complete his fellowship degree at Columbia University. (8) ~ pproval of catalogue is rec ornmended. s/W. F. Feagin, ChairID~n The Committee reported approval of course of study as outlinea in catalogue. Report adopted. It was moved and carried that the Report of the Finance Committee, which follows, be adopted. REPORT OF FINANCE COMHITTEE Your Committee on Finance beg leave to submit the following report: "\I'le find that the amounts received from the various funds coming in-were not sufficiert to leave the College without debt in the sum of $15,436.50. We regret that·, while the appropriation has been made by the Legislature, the finances of the state are such that this cannot be obtained to clear the college of debt. -\o[e find the Treasurer's report made in neat and business like way and the additions of the amounts received and the amounts disbursed are correct. . l Hespectfully submitted, s/A. W. Bell The Committee on Lands and Buildings made the follmving report, which was adopted: REPORT OF THE CO ~1:rnT1'EE ON LANDS AND BUILDINGS We concur in the President's recommendation and recommend that, as early as funds are available, buildings be cons·trucbed in follmving .order': a modern dairy barn to cost $5,000 to $6, QOO, The present dairy barn be converted into a beef cattle barn. A I'.!Iachinery Building, to cost $5, 000 • . A Veterinary Building, to cost $40,000 . A Chemical Building , to cost not exceeding $75,000. vie would recommend the steps to the ' ~lain Building be repaired and made safe. He further earnEistly aske the Governor of the State to release a sufficient amount of tre appropriation heretofore made to this College by the Legis1ture of Alabama, to carry out the above recorrmendations. s/Harry Herzfeld C. M. Sherrod The Co~nittee on Animal Husbandry submitted the following report, which was adopted by motion: REPORT OF THE C01J1MITTEE ON MUHAL HUSBANBRY VIe would compliment this department on the improvement in the herd and t ypes of beef animals now owned and recommend the disposal of a majority of the herd of Jers,eys among ------------~----------------------------------------- - \<1 the dairy animals and the proceeds invested in a few selected specimens of the Hol­stein, Guernsey, and Ayrshire breeds for demonostration and experimental purposes. We would st rongly recoIT@end that an assistant be named to the Professor of Animal Husbandry, who is a specialist in dairying., with a view of eventually developing a separate department of this important study and industry. sic. M. Sherrod H. Herzfeld The following resolution was offered and adopted: Resolved, That the thanks and appreciation of this Board of Trustees be conveyed to the Faculty and Board: of Trustees of the Southern University for the compliment and richly deserved honor done t o Professor Bennett Battle Ross in conferring upon him the honorary degree of LLD. Resolved, further that the Secretary to this Board be directed to convey a copy of these resolutions to the President of the Southern University and be recorded in the minutes of this Board. ~ On 'motion, ' the following resolution was adopted: Be it resolved that the President of this College be and ne hereby is instructed to draw a sufficient amount of money out of the Board of Trustees Fund of the College to apy al l expenses of entertaining the Board of Trustees each year at the meetings of subh Board. Be it further resolved, that a sufficient amount out of such fund is hereby appro- --- priated to meet the expenses incident to entertaining said Board of Trustees at its __ . regular meetings each year, as provided for above. The following resolutions were presented and, on motion , were adopted: 1 Be it resolved by the Board of Trust,ees ori behalf of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute that t hey hereby. express their appreciation ~ of the generosity of Mr. C. C. {Clay in presenting to the Col lege's agricultural department the valuable st allion, Caesar, and the Secretary inform Mr. Clay of t his resolution. Be it resolved by the Board of Trustees on behalf of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute that they hereby express their appreciation of the interest in our Institution and genro­sity evidenced by the County Demonstration Agents arld citizens, who have contributed t he funds for purchase of registered cattle for the college's agr i cultural department and ,the Secretary advise the Press of these resolutions for publication. / The following communication was read: The members of the farrQly of Reuben Herzfeld, deceased, hereby offer to the Board of Trustees for benefit of the Alabama .Polytechnic Institute, to be used in erecting an i nfirmary , the Stun of five thousand dollars, on the following conditions: , (1) Said i nfirmary be known as the Reuben Herzfeld Memorial I nfirmary. (2) That no charge be made any student or person treated in said infirmaty, who is unable to pay for such treatment. It was moved and carried that the Board of Trustees accept with thanks ' the offer made by the family of Mr. Reuben Herzfeld and President Thach was requested to express the appreciation of~he . B oara for the donation. , A proposition from the Alabama Power Company, which is incorporated in these minutes elsewhere , was referred to the Executive Committee, with power to act. I . ~ /' A motion was passed thanking Governor. Henderson for appointing l'fr. P. S. Haley a ~; -member of the Board of Trustees of the Alabalna Polytechnic Institute. - Pr esident ThacH was authorized by motion to employ a suitable person for r ecording the minutes of the Board of Trust ees. ! {The Chairman appointed 1-1:r . Haley a member of the Finance Cormnittee and a member of : ti Committee on Animal Husbandry. Accordingly, his name was added to t hese COl1unittees. , There being no further business, the Board of Trustees of the 'Alabama Polytechnie Institute adjourned sine die. - . Dear Sirs: Lucile Burton, Acting Secretary by Appointment , . , ANN-UAL REPORT OF PRESIDENT CHAS. C. THACH OF THE ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Auburn, Alabama June 1, 1917 I have the honor .to hand you herewith the annual, report of the work of the .Alabama Polytechnic Institute for the year 1916-1917. ~ ATTENDANCE It i s pleasing to record the continual growth in attendance at the Institution; the total at t endance for the year, including all departrnents, being 2,127, which is the high .water record of attendance in the history of the Institution. J 1 0 The factors of this enrollment are: College Fall, TrJinter, and Spring Terms, 930; College Summer Term, 364; Boys' .::>ummer School at Auburn, 123; Farmers' SWJrrner School at Auburn, 710 . These figures do not include any work not done at t he College . In addition, the Farm Demonstration, Boys' Corn Clubs, Girls' 9anning Clubs, Farmers' Inst itut e~, etc. ~umber approximately 11,000 organized workers. Among the larger county enrollments are: Jefferson, 103; Lee, ; Montgomery, 25; Walker, 21; Hobile, 17; Geneva, 17; J.I.1arshall, 15; Talladega,15; Marion, 15; tvilcox, 13; Dallas, 13; Houston, 13; Limestone, 10; Eto1tlah, 10; Escarnbia, 10; Barbour, 10; Coosa, 9; Pike, 9; St . Clair, 9. Every county, save one, is represented. Thr ee for­eign countries ar,e represented, Brazil, China, and IV1exico. Some o~ the larger state delegat ions ather' than Alabama are: Georgia, 73; SoutH Carolna, 27; Mississippi, 20; Florida, 20; Tennessee, 17; Louisiana, 9; North C~olina, 8. Among the leading denominations, the enrollments, are: Methodists , 397 ; Baptists, 286; Presbyterians, 99; Epis~opalians, ' 51; Oatholics, 32; Christians, 27; Jewish, 12; etc. Four hundred and thirty one students are over twenty-one years ot age. The average age of the Fr eshman Class is over nineteen years, a marked degr ee of maturity. Twenty­five students are married. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MI NES, . . ESTABLISHED 1872. Number of Professors and Instructors, 24; Electrical Engineering, 157; 1·1echani cal Engineering, 241; Civel Engineering, 45; Surveying, 290; Architecture, 13; Mechanical Drawll1g , 241 ; Descriptive Geometry, 106; Mechanic Arts, . 525. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE . Number of Professors and Instructors, 25; Agronomy, 439; Animal Husbandr.y, 497; Horti-culture, .. 183; Forestry, 40; Chemistry, 491; Chemical Laboratory, 213; Entomology, 45; Botany, 178; Pharmacy, 60 . ACADEl IC DEPARTMENT Number of Professors and Instructors, 18; English, 676 ; Poli tical Economy, 68; History, 573 ; ~ at hematics, 543; Physics, 460; French, 28; German , 34 ; Spanish, 72; Education, 162; Inter nati onal La\<[, 214 . HORK Throughout the year the general spirit of work and the observance of the laws of the College have been excellent • . vmile during the excetement and agitation of war through­out the latter part of the session, the st~adiness of the student body has been remark­able. In the cr~s~s, many of the students responded to the call of the colors, forty-two from the Senior Class alone, while many others entered the "Army of Producers," an equal ly necessary &~d honorable line of defense , according to President Wilsono Those who were prepared went to serve their country, whi l e others who were not prepared remained to become so; and never was there a more imperative demand for thorough scientific prepa­ration than at this critical moment. Formal contracts were drawn up by all students who left college and entered upon agri­culture. The degrees were conferred in regular order upon all members of the Senior Class !'<[ho reported for military: servic e., or went back to the farm; t his action being duly r atified by the Board of Trustees. The potse of the student body, I am pleased to say , was .due i n a large degree t o the poise and sound judgement .of the Commandant of Cadets, Captain Frank vI. Rowell. The classes r emaining at their studies have been pr ompt and faithful, and ,· ,have achieved exc ellent .results. MILITARY DEPARTMENT • I I nterest in the Military Department has been mar ked throughout the year. In pursu­ance of the action of the Board taken at its last meeting, a unit of t he Reserve Officers' Tr .aini1g Corps was established in this Institution '\-<[ith Captain Frank VI . Rowell ~n charge . -, As stated in my previous re p ort~ (1) The system is elective; members .of the Junior and Seni or -Classes entering upon obligations, which must necessarily be volunt ary . (2) Commutati on for clothing is allowed those who enter t he System. However , this was not available this year . (.3) On graduation, upon recorrrrnendation of the College Authorities, students may be appointed as Second Lieutenants in the Reserve Corps , U. S . ArltlJT. No obligation to perform military duty .after graduation is incurred by the student. (1) The Reserve Officers' Trai ning Corps had an average attendance of 620 during the year by Captain Frank W. RovoTell, as Profes sor of Hilitary Science and Tactics, and Com­mandant of Cadets. Captain Rowell was most efficiently aided in drilltg by three sergeants detailed from the r egular service, namely: Sergeant Richard HcAndrews, Sergeant William F. Muller, and Sergeant Thorfl..8.s P. Bradley; for whose faithful .servi ce I wish also to express the appreciation of the institution. (2) Febr uary 22nd was observed as lIMilitary Day,lI with reviews, parades, drills, calis­thenics, etc., all of which proved highly entertaining. The oc~asi on was graced by Gover­nor Henderson and the ' Board of Trustees, together with Adj"l,.ltant General Hubbard and the Governor's Staff. The_ event was in eve'j7 way suceessful. '_ (3~ On May 17th the regular inspector from the War Department , Captain War e ~ visited the Institution for the purpose of inspection and review. He expressed himself as highly fOlleased with the excellent physique of the studeI;.lt body, th e~r- steadiness in drill, and t heir familiarity. with mIDst recent forms of drill and maneuvers-. (4) On Nay 24th and 25t-h, t he competitive drill was held between the eight companies of the r egiment , Adj utant Gen. Hubbard, on request , furnis hing a committee of high grade officers to judge the competition and at-.rard the prize. Ma jor }loon, Captain Haley, and Captain wnitehurst kindly served as the committee, r~nderin g most painstaking and faith­ful service. (5) Over three hundred Auburn men have entered the Training Camps throughout the Nat ion; Fort Niagara, N'. Y., Plattsburg, N. Y.; Fort -Meyer, Va; Fort Oglethorpe , Georgia; Fort McPherson, Ga .; Fort Logan H. Roots, Ark .; and. Leon Springs, Texas. T.wo h~dred and two Auburn men are enrolled in Fort HcPherson alone. CHANGES IN THE FACULTY The following changes are to be in the Faculty for the current: To fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Professor Ernest Walker, the College authorities selected Professor George C. St archJ;:lr, ,who was Assistant P rofess~r of ljorticul ture in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute o Professor Starcher is a graduate of the University of· West Virginia , and for years had served in connection with College , Experiment -Station, and Extension work in the Agricultural College of Virginia. He came highly recomm ende~ as an expert in his profession. SLDce his connection with the College he h~s given strong evidence of skill and leadership, and has won the confidence of the Agricultural interests of the State . Professor Frederic C. Bi ggin was elected Pr ofe ssor of Architecture to succeed Professor Hudnut , who resigned to enter upon practice in New York City . Professor Bi ggin is a graduate of Lehigh University and Cornell University, and has had varied experiences as a practitioner of his pr ofes sion. Professor Bi ggin has shovffi grea.t zeal and interest in the work of his department . - ---- - - - - - -~~-----~~~----------- - -- -- ---- -~----- - - - - - ~- ~ - l'1r. W. R. Taylor was elected Instructor in English. Hr . Taylor is a graduate of the University of North Carolina; and also of Harvard University, specializing i n English. He has proved hL~self in every yay satisf actory. J.vlr. E. T. ~·1 otley was elected I n st ructor in Pharmacy and ChemistFlJ. ll1PROVErvLENTS Several necessa~ . improvements of a permanent nature have been made during the year, entailing consider:able expense. 'I1hese improvements were absolutely indispensable and .will be of lasting value to the Institution. (1) The most proroinent of these was the development of an 'adequate supply of water for the Institution. After full consultation with the Board of Trus,tees, Faculty, and C o~ mittee of expert :&1gineers, the de'cisibn was reached that it was well nigh impossible to continue the Institution, (certainly to expand it ) , wit hout increasing the supply of water. In a tecrmical institltion ~ith extensive laboratories of .every nature, and wi th an in~en 6e demand for puwer, (not to mention the usual denmnd for sanitary sewer­age , etc. ) , a liberal supply of water is indispensable for existence . - After fullest discussion, the Deep Well projedt was the one adopted and af~er several trials in sinking these wells, I am glad to say that we at last succeeded in securing ro l abundant flow. Including our ~ riginal source of supply, the Binford Spring, and the five deep wells sumk, a gallonage of 427,000; per day is now available . In loyalty to the college, the Athletic Society und'ertook the construction of two of the five wells . (2) It was found necessary, well night, to reconstruct the r esidence of the Farm Super­intendent. This residence will be in good condition for years to come. (3) Extensive repairs were also made on the residence of the Professor of Horticulture. (4) It was necessa~ to install a system of sanitary sewerage in the residence of Assistant Professor of Horticulture. (5) New sheds, fences, etc., were erected for the Department of Animal Husbandry. (6) New walks and entrances have been arranged for the campus , and. successful plant­ings of grass, shrubs) and trees effected. (7) As suggested, these improvements, owing to the high cost of material, have entailed hea~J expense, but in the opinion of the heads of the departments, they were absolutely indispensable. (8) It is highly gratifying to report also the marked accession to our herd of cattle for the purposes of educating ouifstudents in Animal Husbandry. Through the generoBity of a number of farm demonostrators and gentlemen throughout the State interested in Animal· Industry , a sum of a thousand Qollars was raised, the college duplicating the amount for the purchase of typical animals of the herd including Short Horn, Angus, and Hereford Cattle. A highly valuable donation of a superb Percheron stallimn was made to t he Institution by hr. C. C. Clay, of Demopolie, Alabama . - , DEPAR~lliN T OF EDUCATION AND SU ~llilliR SESSION I beg leave to call special attention to the work of the Department of Education which has proved a success in every particular. The teacher training afforded .for the- young men and women of the state fills along felt want and is .equipping a very ':::large number of excellent .young teachers to go into the .field. Professor -Zebulon Vance 'Judd and Professor Wyatt Childs Blasingame, -formerly .Head of the Second District Agricultural School at Evergreen, have r endered excellent service .in this 'department, and have contribut ed much of their time and energy to the cause of eeucation thr o~out the State of Alabama . In the, present national crlS~S of food and feed producti on, the Summer Session is making every effort to arouse interest of teachers in every phase of farming, and ' is seeking cooper ation with girls and boys of schools in organizing agricultural classes of every description. , . THE EXTENSION SERVICE AT AUBURN AND SONE OF THE THINGS IT IS DOING FOR THE ,FARMERS \ihile the headquarter s are at Auburn, the wonk of this branch of the Alabama Polytech­nic Institute and of the U. S . Department of Agriculture, which it represents, is carried out in every county in the State. The ultimate agencies for reaching the f armers and their families are about 70 farm demonstration agents, and 29 (65) home demonstration agents. There is not space enough in any brief paragraph f or an adequate statement of the activities and results ' of even this one branch of th'e Extension work . , . SOME v: ORK OF THE FARlYl DEMONSTRATION AGENTS These visit i ndividual farms, and advise methods for cultivating the fields, feeding t he livestock, improving the seed, building silos, etc . They are also active in organi:­zing ,farmers into local associations, usually with the help ;"f experts from Auburn, iniD associations ,for the bet ter marketing of their products, or for other' agricultural ends o The average yield of cotton grown on demonstration fields last year was 630 pounds of seed cotton per acr~. This was more t han two and one-half times the yields Gn the average acr9 in . the state. , Likewise, with corn the average yield on the many huhdreds of demonstration fields was 27 .76 bushels per acre , or fully twice the average for the State. (In 1916, the fields ' of oats grown under the sup er~ision of demonstration agents averaged 28 bushels per acre, while the yield of wheat was 12.8 bushels .) , . Fann demonstration agents have devoted much successful effort to gett ing farmers to increase the acreage in such fqrage crops as velvet beans, .soy beans, cowpeas, etc. La st year under their d i~ e ction there were more than 1,000 demonstration fields in velvet beans, with an acreage estimat ed yield of soy beans and 'many fields of other leguminous crops . The derponstration fields in peanuts numbered 5,641 . During t he past year the county agents were very helpful to the l ives t ock i nterests by i noculating 67, 926 hogs , a ssist i ng i n the starting of more t han 1,000 new herds. of hog>, giving sugges t ions on the fe eding of more t han 100,000 hogs, and were one of the means by which large numbers of pure bred cattle Were brought into Alabama . Last year the number of rural or gani zations, which' with demonstration agents were cooperating and most of which were organized through their activity, numbered 262 . Thei r visits to individual f armers numbered more than 75,000. • J • --- ---------------~------- - - HOlfJ.E DELvIONSTRA TION AGENTS The 65 women agents, in as many counties, enrol led last year 2, 260 members in thE!!irr' canning cl ubs. These clubs 'put up 217 , 541 cans or gl asses of product s of the farm , gar den and .orchard . These women agents al so enrolled 600 mat ure farm women in home d emon~ s t rat i on clubs, which clubs put .up 55 , 745 contai ner of canned goods . The gi rls and women have start ed many winter gar dens, strawberry patches, and have planted a considerabl e nillnber of fruit trees . BOYS ' CLUBS The nillilber o'f boys enrolled i nucorn clubs last year was 3,870. The .. boys in four- crop clubs numbered 571 . Ther e were 4, 060 (6 , 924) members of pi g cl ubs in Alabama last year, and t he average pr ofit on one class of pi gs was $14 .15 per head . State short cour ses were held by specialists f r om headquart ers at Auburn , not only at Auburn and iVlonteval10 , r espectively, but i n addi t i on short courses were held in a number of counties , s epar ately. f or boys and f or girls . . , EXTENSI ON SP CIALISTS (AT AUBURN) The above statements menti on briefl y the agencies in ' t he field or . the f i nal channels gf information t o. the people on t he fa rms ~ A cor ps of speciali sts at Auburn is const­antly engaged in a ssisti ng, i n their t echnical lines , both county agent s and f a rme r ~ . Among these Ext ension experts at Auburn may be mentioned t he fol lowing: An Agr icultural Engineer, who devotes his time to teaching farmers the best methods of building silos , barns, or other farm str uctures, instal ling home waterworks and l abor-saving devices , etc .; an AgronoITQst , or cr op expert , with an a ssistant, who , with t he Director , of the Extension Servi ce, the State Demon str ation Agent , and three Distr ict Demons t r ation Agents , give their time t o showing what crops are best adapted t o each particular section of t he St ate, the best met hods of cultivat ing and fertili­zing each, and t o answering thousands of lett er s along these lines . In the Direct or ' s office al one last year the number of letters answered was mo~ e than 10,000 . An Entomologist and a ssistant give out from t ime t o t ime the results 0f their i nvest i­gations on the .best means of combating noxious i ns ect pest s , such as the new green plant bug,tae old enemy, the cotton boll weevi l, potato pugs , fruit i nsects , etc . A D ~ i ry expert visits farmers in all parts of the Stat e, advising the best methods of f eedi ng and r earing dairy cattle and of handling the products . This week this par ti­cular special ist i s on a t rip to a western stat e to help the farmers of one communit y select and br i ng .into Alabama s everal carloads of dairy cows. He and ·the Expert on Beef Cat tle, whose dut ies are somewhat similar , have been t he means of selecting and br inging idD t he state l ar ge numbers of pure bred cattl e , as have most of t he county agents . The Horticulturist of the l'JXperiment Station ' has an ext ensive corre spondence in answer to i nquiries about the best methods of growi ng every kind of veget abl e and fruit . Anotner special i st , whose work i s intended to increase agriculturm pr oducti on and at the same time pr ovide f arm women and country gi r l s with a larger i ncome is the Poultry Specialist . Her work i s done in connect i on wit h t he canning clubs . - I MEETINGS About 5,000 meetings were held by the employees of the Extension Service last year . More than 200,000 people were reached in these meetings. EXPERIMENT STATION WORK .., Publications! During the period between July 1, 1916, and May 31, 1917, the Experiment Station has published the following: 5 Bulletins 2 Circulars 5 P~ess Bulletins ~ Index Pamphlets Total 14 Publications This is a total of 204 pages, 181,000 copies and an aggregate of 1,524,500 pages in all publicationso WORK OF AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT , . ,Cf0 A detailed list of ~he experiments in progress on the , Station farm in the agricultural department is given in the last annual report of the ptation, pages from which are' at tached to this report . The Local Exp~ riment Work, consisting of experiments made in counties throughout the --I State and not at Auburn , is listed in Experiment Station Circular No . 35, a copy of which is attached . The Technical Experimental -Work conduct.ed by Professors FUnchess and' Robbins has attracted considerable at tention from scientific men interested in the processes occur­ing in the soil ., Professor Funchess has also some unpublished results accomplished during the. past f ew months that promise to throw new and unexpected light on some of the causes of the infertility of many. Southern soils • . FUNDS OF THE COLLIDE The following ~able exhibits the accounts of the College for the Year: . ' 1 . U. S. Fund , known as Endowment , ' or Morrill Fund, (Bonds) 2 . U. S. Appropriation, Second Horrill Fund (By Congress)· 3. State. Appropriation, in lieu of Fertilizer Tag Ta~ for work done ' by the Department of Chemistry 4. One-fourth share I lluminating Oil Tax fev Department of Chemistry 5. Tuition, Non-resident Stucle~ts 9. Surgeon and Infirmary 7. Miscellaneo~s Income, Fees, etc . $. 20,280 .00 27,900 .00 40,000 .00 12,710 .00 2,508 .00 4,235 .00 25 , 469 .29 -- -----.--------------------------------------- ----------- ------------- \C\ 1 The State appr opriated nothing directly fop educational work at Auburn. Copy. of the Annual Report of the Treasurer of the College has been forwarded tu each member of the Board of Trustees. The receipts and expenditures of the Hatch and Adams reports have been set forth in the regular report of the Experiment Station. Printed copies of this report have been sent to each member of the Board of Trustees and forwarded to the United States Department of the Treasury, and of Agriculture; _ in Washington. The Examiner of the United States Department of Agriculture has audited and checked the Hatch , Adams, and Lever accounts, and r eports them as entirely satisfactory. The receipts and expenditures of the College are set forth in a monthly statement furnished the President by the Treasurer of the College. The report of the Director of the Experiment Station, on the boll weevil, has been duly filed with the Commissioner of Agriculture, according to law, and a copy sent to each member of the Board of Trustees . TECHNICAL EDUCATION Perhaps the world, in all its history, has never seen a more perfect demonstration of of the power of scientific technique than in the present world war. Mere number's are nothing in this colossal conflict. The conflict is one of accurate science and of knowledge and our nation feels an immediate and imperative demand for scientific training, and still ~ scientific training. vmether in farm operations or in manufacturing operatias, our young men must have the very best advantages. It is not a question. of privilege to the student, but it is a question 'of imperative duty on the part of the State to make its youth efficient : to give them the power of knowledge: an accurate, precise knowledge of the great forces of nature --- thereby increasing production and adding to the economic power of the Nation. I t was my pleasure, not long since, to address the State Bankers I Assoc·i ation in Mobile and surely it is an auspicious omen that the financiers of our commonwealth, the men - who handle the productive capital. of the State, have become keenly aroused to the grim problems confronting us. Our entire industrial and economic order has been upset by the boll weevil, and we must have more and more intelligence to meet the emergency of the changed conditions. Agriculture is now a skilled profession, rather t han a hap­hazard diversion . ' And so with all forms of industry; 'today skill counts, and counts heavily. For example, there can be cited two young men of technical training in Alabarr~ who , by their scientific knowledge, have brought millions of dollars oft capital into· the State of Alabama, and repaid the State a thousand fold for the cost of their educa­tion . And this . session, in reponse to the call back to the farm, hundreds of young men have left the College of Agriculture, who are making highly valuable additions to the pr oduction of the farm and garden. Money invested by the State-in such productiVie education is not a charity, but is rather a most enlightened form of self-interest; a most profitable form of investment. Despite the. immense growth of the Institution in attendance and in development of dif­ferent technical courses, the College has been unable to secure any additional income from the appropriations made by the Legislature of 1911. ' During that sessi0n I pre- . sented a careful and modest buget to the Legislature and an appropriation of $10,000 per annum was readily made . Again three years ago with the same presentation of facts, an appropriation of $15 , 000 per annum was made. But owing to the condition of the State Treasury, not a dollar of these a ppr opriations has .been available . As before -I -I stated, the very best interests of the Institution, both in regard ·to equipment and teaching staff, are suffering most keenly . From the lack of salaries, we are constantly losing some of our best men, while compared with other Southern .Institutions , over which our own graduates pr.eside, our equipment in many important departments is entirely inferior . (1) Fifteen thousand aollars per year .additional income for t he mere upkeep of the institut i on under the present rate of commodities and high cost of ' living . (2) An adequat e Veterinary Building . (3) A Chemical Building . (4) A decent Barn for Herds . (5) A decent herd for education of students in Animal Husbandry (6) Farm Machinery Building (7) Ten Instructors in Mathematics , English, Animal Husbandry, Agr onomy, and -the funda­mental subjects taught by the Institution . The minimum sum immediately needed for there pressing demands is $250,000 . Recommendation of the Faculty for degrees will be transmitted after the final ·acti'on is taken on the candidates . Respectfully submitted, s/Chas . C. Thach President .7 5aJJmt, h'ith appr oval, the follovving Report of Director of Experiment Station and Professor of Agriculture . Part I - College\! ork (Hatch Experimental Work (Adams Experimental. Work sic . C. Thach, President. (Report on the Local Experiment Work will be submitted as Part II and Report on Extension Work will be submitted as Part III . ) J Doctor C. C. Thach, President Alabama Polytechnic I nstitute Auburn , Alabama I submit f or the next fisc~l year the following estimates for the teaching work in the agr i cul tural department , including Soils or Agr onomy, and Farm Machinery . These are the same amounts as borne on the present budget. Appropriations needed for Teaching College Fund 1 . 2 . 3. 4. 5. For T~aching Crops, including Cotton Classing $ For Soils Laboratory, teaching For Scholarship man teaching services in Soils Laboratory and Field Laboratory For teaching Sal ary in Farm Machinery CR . U. Bla singame) For exp e~ses Farm ¥~chinery Laboratory, including freight on machinery to be borrowed . STUDENTS 200:.00 300 .00 150 .00 300 .00 The number of student s rec elvlng i nstruction in Soils and Crops under Professor Fun­chess and student assistant Wingard was 451 . AGRICULTURAL BUILDING THere is, of course, need for the same provision as in the past for the maintenance and janitorial service of the agricultural building, and for providing, as soon as _ possible, for fire escapes . EXPERI¥1ENT S TA TION WORK Publi:ca tions:' During the period between July 1, 1916 , and May 31 , 1917, the Experiment Station has published the following : , 'l'otal 5 Bulletins 2 Circulars 5 Press Bulletins ~ Index Pamphlets 14 Publications This is a total of 204 pages , 181,000 copies and an aggregate of 1, 524 , 500 pages in all publications . WORK OF AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT A detailed l i st of the experiments in progress on the Station farm in the agricultural depa rtment i s given in the last annual report of the Station, pages from which are attached to t his report . The Local Experiment it/ork, consisting of experiments, made in counties throughout the State and not at Auburn , is l i sted in Experiment Station Circular No . 35 , copy of which is attached . The technical experimental work conducted by Pr ofessors Funchess and Robbins has attracted considerable attention from scientific men i nterested in the processes occurring in the soil . Professor Funchess has also some unpublished results accom- ' plished during the past few months that promise to t hrow new and unexpected light on some of the causes of the infertility of many Southerrr soils . -VfORK OF OTHER DEPAR'IMENTS Progress has been made in experimental work of the Animal Husbandry, notably in the feeding of hogs and beef cattle and also in the feeding of dairy cattle . The work of the Department of Entomolo~J has been continued in the same lines as heretofore with the addition of studies on the green-plant bug which threatens to beco~e almost as serious a pest as the boll weevil, unless checked . 200 The resignation of Professor E. Walker, September 1, 1916 , the death of Doctor Ander­son last February, and vacancies for several months in those departments has inter­rupted experimental work in horticulture &!d chemistry . It is hoped that oonditions will permit the active prosecution of both lines of work at an early date . Pr ofessor G. C. Starcher entered upon his duties as Horticulturist for the Statio£ early in January, 1917 . Agricultural Assistants : I. her eby Jrecommend that the salary of Mr . E. F. Cauthen , Associate Agriculturist, and paid entirely from Experiment Station funds , be hereafter $2,000 .00, an increase of $200 .00 . - (Not Approved) 1 hereby recommend the appointment of }1r . H. B. Tisdale , formerly an assistant in this department and now pursuing .plant-breedingwork in Cornell University, as Associate in Plant Breeding in the Agr,icultural Department, at a total salary of $1620 . Of this the U. S . Department of Agriculture will pay $600 000 and the remainder, entirely from Station and Extension funds , is provided for in the corresponding budgets that -1 submit . Mr . Tisdale will thus take over most of the work recently ~one by lVIt . F. E. -BoYd, ­resigned . 1 herewith submit attached budget for the Hatch and Adams funds, which is ' along the same lines as in the past year . Yours very truly, (signed) J . F . Duggar, Director A.labama Experiment Station H~t ch and Adams Budget - 1917-1918 Name Salaries: . Vet erinarian Director of Station Botanist Horticulturist Asst . Horticulturist (Price) Entomologist _ . . Chemistry of Soils (A.nderson) Asst . Chemist of Soils (Sum Total Chemistry (PhYSiological) Farm Supt . & Recorder (Cauthen) Animal Husbandman (Templeton) Foreman Agrow . Farm Asst . Animal Husbandman Herdsman (Morris) $650) Hatch $ 600 1600 100 200 300 100 200 1,100 1,~00 350 300 (Besides Adams 900 1,400 1,800 Fer tilizer 700 500 400 300 475 200 Funds) . Plant Pathologist (Peltier) , Agronomist (Funchess) T;r;'easurer Asst . Entomologist (Thomas) Asst . ' Entomologist (Vaughan) Asst . Botanist (Massey) Secretary (Sellers) Asst . Recor.der (Howell) Assoc. Plant Breeder (H. B. Tisdale) f.la3t. Librarian Library Helper Research Scholarship in Botany Student Assistant in Agr . Clerical Help Maintenance : ? ? ? Publications , Anin~l . Husbandry Botany Chemistry of Soils (and) Chemistry (Physiological) Soils (Funchess) Entomology Agriculture & Plant Breeding Horticulture Library Heat , Light & vater Power Travel & Other Adm~i strative .Expenses Contingent Veterinary Plant Pathology Postage Total $ $ 500 100 100 300 90 90 250 75 50 100 100 1,500 1,100 100 ·100 100 2,000 900 400 370 150 75 200 50 15,000 $ 1,250 (Bes idffi #750 Loc . Exp) 700 500 500 300 270 (150) 200 ~ B esideD $150 Co]) 800 800 · 200 100 100, 850 600 100 355 450 $ 15,000 Respectfully submitted, s/J . F. Duggar , Director I submit, with approval, the following Report of Director of Experiment Statiori (Part 2) being a report on Dr . C. C. Thach, President Alab&~a Polytechnic Institute Auburn, Alabama Sir: THE LOCAL EXPERIMENT WORK S/Chas . C. Thach, President I hereby submit my report on the Local Experiment Work of all departments of the Experiment Station receiving partial support from this State fund for experimental work . FIN~C IAL RECOM}~A TIONS FOR THE YEAR BEGINNI NG JULY 1, 1917 ' _' (1) Plant PAthology . ' Annual Appropriation Balance from 1916 Expenditures Part Salary (besides $1,250 from Adams fund, G. L. Peltier) $ 750.00 Travel" Supplies, etc . 450 .00 $1,200.00 (2) Horticulture Annuai Appropriation Expenditures: Part Salary (Prof. Starcher) , Part Salary Field Agent (0 . Brown) Part Salary Field Agent (C. L. Isbell) Traveling Expenses Supplies, etc. (?) 200 Pric.s $ 300 .00 500.00 400 .00 . , 500.00 00 .00 , 2,000 .00 $ 1,000 .00 200 .00 ~ $ 1,200 • .aO $> 2,000 .00 oJ' '::02 (3) Agriculture, Plant Breeding, Drainage and Farm Machiner,y, also Publications and Administration. Positiop or, Expenditure · Crops . Plant Breeding Drainage & Machinery Publications & Administration · . Annual ~pp~opriation _. J 7,000 $ 1,200 Balance from 1916 Balance from Publications 555 . 55 $ 1,500 · "l!"i-7-,-5-5 5-.-5 5 $1,200 $ 1,500 Assoc . Plant Breeder · I (Tisdale, H. B. ) Field Agent (Williamson) .$ 1,800.00 Asst. & Sec . (Sellers) 200.00 Recorder (Cauthen) Assoc . Agr. (Funchess) Director ?500 .00 Treasurer Steno . cSt Office Help Agr. Enir. (R .U.B.) Drainag~ (Coop. with U. S. Labor &,Misce1laneous Postage ,& Stationery Freight & Express Office Rsst . Recorss, etc . Pr1l1ting, e1:c . Travel 300 .00 300 .00 520 .00 , ~ D.A) . 700 .00 .200 .00 250 0 00 200 .00 1,200 .00 300 .00 200 .00 80 .00 ' 50 .00 50 .00 100 .. 00 100 .00 200 .00 $ 2,500 484 .97 $ 2,984.97 . J r, , 200 .00 350 .00 . 300.00 500 .00 . 500 .00 . -50 .00 100.00 300 .00 30 .00 1,284 .97 150.00 --- -- - - --~ Plant Position or Expenditure Crops Breeding Fertilizers, Seeds, etc . 1,600.00 100 .00 Office Furniture, Repairs & Conting~nt 285 . 55 20 .00 Fuel, Lig~t & Water Total Est., 'Expenditures $ 7,555 . 55 (4) (5) $ 1,200 .00 Junior and Home Economics ixtension (From Local Exper~ent F~d) Annual Appropriation Expenditures: Girls Boys Clubs Clubs . Part Salary Supt. (Duncan) $300 '300 Part Travel Supt. (Duncan' 230 340 Part Salary (Kerlin) 100 Travel (Kerlin) 900 Part Travel State Agt. ' ,. H. D. vfork 500 Part Travel (J. C. Ford) Stenography & Extra Help 450 Labor & Miscellaneous Supplies 280 200 Total $ 1,310 $2,290 Animal Indu'st ry & Poultry Annual Appropriation I _ Balance- from 1916 Ariimal Industry &. PoUltry Expenditur~s: Part Salary , (T~pleton) , t . Supt . Beef Cattle Experiments in West Alabama (E. Gibbons) Part Salary Part Salary Supt . Hog Experiments in ~est Alabama (Successor to A. E. Hayes) Drainage & Publications & Machinery Administration 150.00 100.00 $ 1,500 .00 $ 150 .00 2,984 .97 $ 5,000 ;00 Pig Poultry Clubs Clubs Total ) i 600 570 100 900 SOC 300 300 720 1,170 200 180 860 $ 1,220 $ 180 $ 5,000 ... Animal Husbandry Poultry . ~3 , 500 ._00 " .t J,OOO .PO . 1,391 .12 $4, 891 .12 ~.J.. $ 1,(1)00 .00 .J ,150 .00 150 .00 Horse and Mule Feeding Expt . (To be locat ed) Salar'J Supt . Hog Experiments in Southeast Ala- 1,600.00 1,000 .00 ' 300 .00 e bama (H. W. Caffey) Stenography Traveling ~enses & Inci dentals Wages, Loc~l Poultry Man (H. Schlenterbusch) Poultry Project (~ . ii" Stephen) 1,000 .00 . 180 .00 661 .12 Experiments of Short ,Uuration, Incidentals, etc . JI . Traveling ~penses and Incidentals (6) Entomology: Annual ApprQpriation Balance from 1916 • ' J '.$ 4,891 .12 r 180'.00 300 .00 48 .00 100.00 222.00 $ 1,000.00 $ ·2,'300 .00 89 .03 $. 2,389 .03 -' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Expenditures : Part Salary (Vaughan.) Part Salary (Dr. Hinds) Part '::; ala~" (Thomas-, F. L.) Hisc. Expenses, & Stenography Total ~endi tures· $ 500,.00 , . . , 900..00 · . . , . , . , . 300.00�� . , 689,.03 • $2,389.03 ' I submit, with .". approval, <.th .e following Report of Director of Extension Service . (Signed) " Chas. C. Thach, President. , Dr. C. C. Thach, President Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn, Ala. Sir: I herswith submit an outline report of the Extension Service, including ten­tative estimates for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1917. , , , As is well known, the &lith-Lever Act of 'Congress, making the appropriations for Extension work provides an annual increase ,for the next few ,years. This annual increase for Alabama is $17,909.85. ~is increase, and indeed the greater part of the entire appropriation from Congress, is available only on condition of appropria­tions from within the state • . The securing of this increase for the coming year is provided for by an appro­priation made by the state Legislature to the Extension Service to become available July 1, -1911, the first year's installment of '~ich i ,s $20',000., The funds to be paid out at Auburn in the support ofe~ension work for the fo 110~1iI1g f~sca1 year are as fo llows: . • • Inerome ':. • • • • From Smith-Lever -Act of Congress . ' ..... $ 67,311:'.52 state Appropriatton (Act approved September 25, 1915) • • • • • • • • "... 20,000.00 I 87,3iX.52 .. t The Food Bills, which were considered by Congress .last week and which have ~ot been passed at the date of writing, will have some bearing on extension work 'in Ala-bama and necessarily influence the exact distribution that will be necessary fop the support 'Of farm demonstration agents and home demonstration agents, and ~hence 'an indirect influence on the amounts available for the other projects. , TherefClre, the following is submitted as a tentative budg~t to be modified so as to conform to the pending Federal Legislation referred to, and in conformity with the regulations of the U. S. Departmen~ of Agriculture governing cooperative exten-sion work. ' Farm Demonstration. • • • : • • • • • • �� ••• $19,100.00 Girls' Clubs, etc. • • • • .• • • • • • • • • •• 1),000.00 · Boys Clubs and Assistant Agent·s f~r Club Work • .- 1,504.00 . Pig Clubs • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .• • • ," 980.00 Poultry Clubs, etc. • • • . ... • • • • • • • • •• 2,250.00 Administration and Printing • • • • • • • • �� • • 12,500.00 Movable Schools for Whites and Negroes •• .•••.• 2,000.00 AgronontY' • • • • ,. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • $ Da:i.I'j'ing • • • • ge • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Beef Cattle • • . " . • • • • • • • . • • .• . , • • Horticul ture • • ,. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Specialists in Ot,her Departments • • • • • . • Marketing and Farm Finances 6, 570.00 2, 02) .00 1,980. 00 1, 800. 00 2, 600 .00 (Especially organization fpr) • • • • • •• . 4, 950. 00 Hog Cholera Extension (Dr. Wilson) • • • • • • Farm Demonstration for Negroes �� • • • • • • • Home Demonstration for Negroes • • • • • • • • Agricul tural Engineering • • • • • • • • •. • • Project to be selected after Food Bills passed. Farm and Home Conveniences (Fullan) .. • • • • . Total ~o . OO 8, 066. 00 1,800. 00 2,500. 00 2, 791. 52 400. 00 As usual, detailed and itemized written projects will be formulated for each of the items mentioned above as required by. the regulatiolUi ot the U. S. Depart­ment of AgricultUre. ' In advance of such formal projec,ts, t attach as a page of this report the salar,y 'list 6f extension employees from all funds, including direct Federal appropriatio~s outside of the &nitq-Lever run~ •.. . Extension Service .Salaries 1917-1918 (Fmployees ~t Aubl,lrn) . I • • .* -Name Position Smith- Lever Duncan, L~ N. Kerlin, I . B. Ford, J. C. Keown, Miss Supt. Junior & H. E. $ 324. 00 Corn Club Assi~tant 500. 00 ·Pig Club A~s~stant 120. 00 Asst. Home Dem. Agt. state Home Oem. Agt. Camper, Mrs. . Asst. Home Dem. .gt. Murphy, Miss stenographer Ruffin, Miss stenographer - Wright, Mis.s ' ~ ~.- - --stenographer ~ . " " Feminear, Miss Asst. Home Dem. Agt. _ .Hinds, 'Ttl. E • . Entomologist Vaughan, .E. A. Asst. Entomologist Beli, J . P. - Steno graphe r Starcher, G. C. . . Horticulturist Erice, J . C. C. Asst. Horticult. Brown, otto Fiel;d Agent 700.00 .J)o.oo 780. 00 420. 00 "360. 00 300. 00 100~ OO 42:> .00 150. 00 200.00 . 200. 00 . .... , _Isbell, C. L. Field Agent 200. 00 . r Goggins, Mrs. stenographer l~ . OO Duggar, J . F. Director 1000.00 0( • • Gqvemmemt · Government Government Goverrunent Government Government Government ..... '"' GoverIUJlent Burleson, D. J: Agronomist - . &lffoo. oo · Tisdale, H. B. ' ~sso ." ·~i . 'Breeding ." . j66.00 · . -GOvernment l> Jtsst., ~~ol!. (H~w~ll: t ~., ,:., ' • • • position, ~O . OO Sellers, O. H. · Secretary ' , . ". io6o:od " . . " Peacock, Mrs. t . G. ~otc : .lsst" . " 906. 00 Jones, Miss Peirl Stenograpner 900. 00 Jenkins, Miss F. stenographer 840.00 / . , - - - - --- . , r," ' . Total all Funds U. S. Government • 3, 000. ~ i , ~o . - 1 , 800. c1, 400 . 1 , 800. 1, IDO • • < 780. 780. 720. 1,620. ~o . .1, 100. 960. 2,200. & House 1, 600 & House 1 , 2:10. 1,000. 7.8 0. 3., 400 & House 1, 800. 1 , 620. 1 , 410. 1, 800. 1, 200. 900. 840. 00 ,- Name Position Sad th-Lever Co o~eration ith Total all Funds U. S. Goverrnnent - Glenn, M. A. Watson, J . J . Templeton, G. s. Cotton, Miss I . Quill8rly,- J . p~ Filler, C. G. Watt. J . T. Lett, U. L. Mauldin, C. M. Wh1 tehead, A. D. Landers, Miss .: Wilson, Dr. H. C. stevens, F. D. Dem. Record Clerk Treasurer Asst. to Treasurer Dr. Rural Organi­zation & Markets Di tto .& !gr. ' Eng. stanog. $1300.00 100. 00 300. 00 1800.00 780. 00 Animal Husbandman 2:>0.00 stenographer · 5ho.00 Dairy Expert 42:r. OO Beef Cat tle Expert 180.00 $tenog. ditto 72:> . 00 As~t,. Dairy Exper.t 300. 00 state Agent Sbo.oo Dist. Agent ~o~ oe Dist. Agent 500.00 ! ~ist. Agent 200.00 . sterog. ditto... , . 6Co .00 Hog Cholera Expert Loo.oo Gov. Farm Man. Expert ):)0. 00 Gov. Market Expert 000.00 Blasingame, R. ' U. J.gricu~t. ' Engineer ,' , ·1200.00 , Asst • . Agri. Engineer ))0. 00 General: . Government Government . Government Government Government Government Government , Government Government Govermnent '! $ 1, ~0 . 1, 800. 300. 1, 800. 780. 2,400. 900. 1, 800. 1, 800. 720. 00 1,000. 2,700. 2, 000. 2,000. 2; 000. 9W • 2, 200. 2, 000. 1, 800. 2, 000 . 300. Coal, Light and Water Janitors, ew. · ~, 325. 00 300. 00 . ~ . , . , . Tentative list .. of salaries; possible., omissions because of pending Federal. legislation. _"i ~, .~ . Tentative Budget for Depvtment of Horticultu-re . " Year 1917-18 - ' . Salaries: Brown Isbell stenog. ----....... - ~ E. $500.00 400.00 Prof'. of Hort. ' . ):)0'. 00 Asst. Prof. of Hort. Trav8.l: Brown & Isbell Starcher & Price SUpplies and Expenses 400 . 00 100. 00 300. 00 $2,000.00 ' $4,036.00 f " " :"> ( ... Extension . ',College Hatch $200.00 200. 00 1SO. 00- lSO. OO 200. 00 . SOO.OO 300.00 $ $ $1,200,. 1,000. 780. 450.00 200. 00 . 2,200. . 600. 00 »0. 00 1,600. 1,500. 700. 100. 00 900.00 ~300 . $ 1,806.00 $1;056.00 ifLbo. ~, 2eo . As a part ial record of the various activities of the Extensi"On Service, inc1udirig tbe farm and home demonstr.ation agents, I attach to' thi:s report , for reference a carbon copy of pages 1 to 23 inclusive of my formal report for the l ast complete fiscal year. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - . I am glad to be able to report. gratifying progress in. every division of exteDsio~work . • Yaurs ·very· ·truly, (Signed) , J . F • Duggar, . Director of Extension Service . . . I submit, with approval, the following Appendix (a-) to the Report of the Director ~ of the Extension Service of the Alabama Polytechnie Inst~tu~e, by J . ' F. Duggar, Director of Extension Service. (Signed) C. C. ' Thach, President ., "':" .• il j , ~. General Organization and Relationships ' , , .~ • • II.. .. . Duling the fiscal year ending June ~, 1916, the~ organiz\ation of the , Exte~sion Service has undergom no change. The three principal divisiom; of ... the work ~ as heretofore' consist of: . ' I ~ (1) (2) (3) • .., ,. . • r The County Agent Work. " . The Junior and HoJOO . Economic's Extension, 'including. Corn Clubs, Pig Clubs, and Home Demonstration Work' for Women and Girls. A Group of Specialists. t Under the general administration 6f the Director the supeIVision of , the Farm Demonstration Agents is by a state Demonstration Agent, assisted by three whi te District Demonstration A.gent's · and by one Negro District Demonstration Agent; under the same general relationship the Superintendent of Junior',and Home Economics Extension is in charge of the club work for boys and girls, and is assisted by a Home Demonstration' Agent , and an Assist-ant Home Demonstration Agent, by an Assistant Corn Club 'Agent; 'and bi ~ ~:~g r C.:Luo "Agent. ~ . - .. _ .. The specialists are, connected with ·appropriate depar.:tanents of the college or station. , . # I' . . .. The general policy i~ ,EXtension work pprsued during the past fiscal year has been that of strengthening the lines of. 'Extension activity already in. "existellce ratl1er than the ;taking up of many. ne~ en terprj.ses. This. strengthBning ' r , pf dld.l1nes Or work applud to practically.. every line of endeavor, but was. especially emphasized in the work for women by increaSing, as far as funds per­mitted, the number of women county agents in HOIOO Demonstration Work, and the ', length of employment of each. The number of Home Demonstration Agents employed in the latter part of the .fiscal year was 2'], an increase of 8 ove~ the preced-ing year. ' . ,, ' Special Campaigns < , • Campa'lgn .rOlf Fall nest~c"tion' of' Cottari' ~tills. =-: o~ or the special feat-ures of the year was the campaign for the destruction of cotton stalks conducted in ~he 'early fall of 1915 as a 1I1ems of combating the boll weevil. These meetings were arranged by the qounty agents. The , speakers were specialists from Auburn and. a gricultural agent s of the various railroads. There were held 167 meetings in 39 counties. The total attendance reported was 14,159. This effort had considerable effect at the time, and app~ently ' a still 'greater effect in the following fall, 1916, during Which stalktdestruction~ was practiced to a much greater extent than ever before in Alabama.. ~ . . . .. Campaign for the Picking of Infested -Squares. - Last summer a special agent was employed, in cooperation with the Montgomery ChambGr af Commerce, to assist the county agents ~n ,holding ~meetings as a means 'of impressing farmers with 'the necessity of thorough picking 'of squares infested by immature stages of the boll weevil, and: for impressing other steps "necessary in the successful cultivation of cot. ton under boll we.evil conditions. . . Meetings of all Kinds , ' Conditions prevailing dUring the past fiscal year seemed t ·o make it desiFable to -liold an~ especially 'large ll1.Uflber of meetings. The following figures, which at the d.ate of wrtting are i,ncomplete, show the number of meetings and the attendance compiled from the 'reports, thus ,far received; of ~the 'agents and others participating in tQese ' gat~rings: - . Moreover, .specialists and .acbninistrative ~of'fieer-s l report a 'total of ' 701 ' . , meetings 'in which they took part, w.lth an attendance of 88, 989. MOst of the , latter meetings -were also' reported by the county agen1ls. Thus we have a total- · of more t.han '200,000 people' -reached by~ 'word '·of mouth. ", New Activities ,. r.!S A t the begiliniQg cif' the fiscal year. ,two spaciaJ.ists WfJre 'added· to the exten-siol\!, force., namely, an ,Agricultural' Engineer and a Bee~ Cattle Speclali'st. ' . . Cooperation with Other InstitutionS. ,1 It '-).,; i)' r As in the 'preceding year, there has been a ·continuance:. during ,the past fiscal year' of cordial cooper8ttion be'bleen the Extefision Service and the following public agencies: ' ' <,' ~ • ': . " state Board of Agriculture; Girls" Technical. Institute, ' Montevallo, Alabama; " Boards- of _Co1l1l11issioners, or other county authorities, of., most of the counties of Alabama; Boards of Education of a number of' counties of Alabama-; Chambers of Comerce of several Alabama cities, ' e:tc., . " Moreover, there has been cordial' but infonnal cooperation, between the Extension Service and the state, .Department of Agriculture and' the state Department of Edu­cation, as well as with severa,l normal schools, agricultu.ra1 scnoolsr high' schools, am other educational agencies. . ' . t • There has been no notable change in any cooperative relationsbip~ during the past year. - - -, - ---- ----- - - ------------ -- --- " New state Legislation Affecting the Extension ' Service . . . The , Alab area Legi slature, which m~ets quadrenially, was i n session in 1915, and passed ' at l east two ,'laws , ha",1ng some· reference tQ Exte~sion work. ' . ' . -: ... , ". One of these was the Act approved Sept. 25, 1915, making state appropri­ations as ,partial offsets · to - tbe Federal Snith-Lever funds for the two fiscal years 1911-18 ,and 1918- 19. THis ·act makes an appropria,tion tD the ~tension Service ·of$2)).o.OO'.OO for ,the fiscal year 1911- 18,. ,and ~ o.t $40;OOO. OO .,for, the fiscal year 1918"19. No new State f'o..nds 'were ' proViided .. as offsets-'to Fed,eral /' Snith- Lever fund :for ,thQ past, .fisc.al 'year. ~ This' Q-mission req'l!:i:red that t:q.e ·,' , county appropriations be used as a means of $8curing the increase rin .the Federal! Smi th-Lever funds. -. . ' \ Another law enacted by the same Legislature Was the Act approved September ,28, '1915, 'providing for, state ano. '- CQ:1Jllty :funds for ·the giv:i:ng ,of prizes and 9therwise .enQouraging Extel}SiQQ WQ:ck among farm boys and ~ girls .. · The -resp6nsi- . ·bility of the expenditure of thi:~ prize money !is vested; by the 'Act;' jointly i-n . "the sta,te B(.1ard , of Agrileq1 ture ., and. ~ ,Co:unty:: Boards 0 f ~Cdmm±s sioners "of the : :' re'spective counties, under plans approved by the Extension Service, -whic-h , _how­ever, does not have the custody of the funds therein provided. ", ; ." ('"~a .. . '_ . .:. Increase in Equipment ' :j" \ , r,­. " . ... . . '- r . • _f \.~ ,. " ' , . ~ { :.... ... . ' . r - '.l No la~g~ teXpeDdi tures were made for elabOrate' equipment. BUt 'the ' necessary type writel's' ~a· 'd.esks required by- 'the~ mcreasing clerical '"WOrk of. the (~tension Service were supplied. A F'ord car was bought for the use of the specialists while- ' traveling :in nearby. counties; nlimemuB... charts lIere· prepared, .and ;a · few sets of lantern slides .~~ bought;) the ~icultur.a1 ~Engineer was' supp11edWith a> ". drafting mac.hine- and blue. pritlt i"ramErr am the '.necessary fi"1ing , ca·~s.,:were pur-chased for several of the o:C.fices having ".large Extension corresppndeme. ' Chm ge s in Personnel r -- : .. In SeptemQer19l.), Mr'. 'N. ~h Negley,:. Expertl i"n Dairyingj . "jointly' employed by the .Ex~nsion · Sel:vice an~ the 'Bureau: of Animal. " IndustI)'" :of (tb'e' U'. &. Depart- . ment of Agriculture, resigned to accept a position elsewhere, and was immedi-ately succeeded by J . P. Quinerly., ' . ' J ,-- , In, February 1,916, ").)1:i8s Nellie, M. Tappan r.esigned·. -and was ·succeeded 'as ' , ;Ils~istan~ ~9J;ne_ Demonstration. Agent' by Mis svMall7 G. ' :Paxton" 'who .isst"ationed at' Montevallo, Alabama, in the joint employment of the Extension Service am the Girls' Technical Institute. • r ���• · f • r - , The following is a list. :Qf- specia~ts and a.c.imirrl:strative; offi-cers on' t~ ,staff ·o~ tile . Extens;i9n~ .se~ce · at . the end of the: .fiscal ·year 1915- 16,: , ' ., ' Blasingame, R. U.;. Agrd.cu,l turd Engineer; Boyd, F. E. , Assistiln:t; ,Agronomist; Burleson, D. J. , Agronomist for Extensionj r:. , :or..;.. :. r .... , . . -' r '.,' ...... " , ( : ') f f. ' D~gar, J . F., ,Director, Extension', Service;' • 1J ~ Duncan, L. · N. , ' Slp.t. Junior" and Home' Economics Exterrsionj'-' ~ Filler, C.. a.; Beef. ,C_attl:e Expert; . i .. " ~~ Ford, J ~ C. , State Pig Club Agent; '; " ':, ' J Glenn, M. A. , Treasurer; Hinds, . U.' E.; Ento1l101ogist;- '; r - '. ~, , .. ) . I . ') - .- - - - - - ------------- --------- ------ - -- . Kerlin, I . B. , Assistant Boys' Club 'Work; Lett, U. L. , Dist r ict Agent; Mauldin, C. M., District Agent; Paxton, Mary G. , Asst. State Agent, Girls' Clubs and H. D. WOrk;: 'QuinerlY, . J.' P. , Agent in Dairying; , . , . ' Reese, Madge J . ~ 'state Agent, ,Girls ' Clubs and H. D. , Work; , Seliers,O. H., Auditor; . , Templeton, George S., Animal Husbandman; Vaughan, E. A. , r Assistant in Entomology; . '. .. Walker, Ernest, Horticulturist; - Watt, J. , T. , state ,Agent; , .. Whitehead, A. D. , District vAgent; . *Wilson, H. C., Field Ag.e nt for Hog C-holera • , . .-, *In' cooperation With BuI"eau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. ,,-'. '1 ' • '1 r . Publications " Jl " The foliowing is a list o£ publications issued during 'the-'f'iscal year encUni ' June .30, 1916, with 'a statement of the 'circulation of eacht' t .. " • " Number of' Publication Title • B .: v No. ' Page s No. in 'Edition Circular No. 1 _ ~ Circular ' ~o. 2 '. r~ ~. Circular No.,' J . Program Boys' Corn 'Club 4' :!) '. r,- Program- Boys' Corn & .. Pig Clubs 4 :­. Report 'Girls . Club ' &. Home <'. ·8 . Demonstration -Work ;in Alabama Farmers' Leaflet lb . 8 Swmnary of Boll Weevil L Suggestions - , 4,060 · 4,000 . 2,000 Far~rsl . Leaflet No.9" Ground Roqk Phosphate Farmers' Leaflet Ne . lO 'l'wt) )Insects 'Mistaken-for 1 2 25,000. ):> ~ooo· t .• I '. ~he Boll ''leen1 Farmers' Leaflet No.11 Druarf Essex Rope . ~ Total 7 ~b1ica tiona ' . .:J) , Q"(JO . 30, 000 J " . r l' ( -. 125,000 In addition there were 4 issues of plate ~e~ic~, consisting of 43 ·artic1es each of which was :Supplied to all of ~ the county or' weekly newspapers of Alabapla desiring it. The number of weekly papers making use of this plate service was 139. r • The ~ecia1 aim in this work is to make .e~ch of the articles brief and seasonal or timely, that is, having a bearing on what farmers should .be doing at that particular time of year. " I .' ' ,. ~ • • I' _ . , . ) ':.... . " f • - r .~ ;,:'- ,;.. .. I. \,: {" '! . Available funds have pennitted the supplying of this material· for only about half of the issues of the weekly papers. That the p1ate .S9rvice .meets a need is evident from the d-orrespondence -on the ' subject; and fTq~ the f'act that some news-papers ' . after using all 'the s,'rticle s supplied run -ma.ny . of ~thenl a' seco~d .ti:Ine. . Administration , . r . _. j ( r _ ,. .9 r ' . Under this project was included provision for the general supervision by the Director of the Extension Service of all lines , of work, including farm demonstration,,' home ' demonstration, . the activities of specialists, etc. ; for the employment of a part of the stenographic force; for the necessary auditing, bookkeeping, etc. Progres s has be~n made in :systematizing the. organization. Fann Demonstr ation Work :" ... ... " . t ., Complete statistics for farm demonstration work are not. available when this report is w~tten, . sipce the repor.ts of c~unty agents include t~ enti re calendar year am cannot be compiled until the earl~ part of. J aIUlary • . The field work of demonstration agents has been l~gely along the same lines as in earlier years. Floods, a long period of continuous rain, in summer, and other unfavorable climatic conditions destroyed the ' crops on. many demon­stration fields and grea~ reduced the average yield per acre. • t • However, it is believed that the aggregate usefulness of the farm demon-stration ag~nts , of . AI{ib~a , was in th,e ' p.ast yeu of agricultural adversity greater than ever before. They were called on more extensively andirLa greater variety of ways in this year of unfavorable conditions than ever before to assist farmers in solving the perplexing problems that confronted them. When Congress PSlS~d a bill fo r the pa1"tial relief of flood ' sufferers, the distributi9n· of s~ed to those·,who had lost 50 per cent or.;- mor~ of their crops was placed in the hams of the demonstration agents, working in cooper-ati. o n w-ith +oca1 relie,f ,co_t tees. '. . ~- ... - . - - -- - Whilf? the free distribution of seed·!to t~ most needy involved some- com- ' plaints when duty made it necessarY for the agents to reject certain. applications, yet this ~.ifferent task Was performed in' a 'far more efficient way than 'WOuld' '. ' have been possible by any other equal' body of men. . The ~fficu1ties were increased by the late date at which the floods occurred an~ the consequent aITi val of seed very late J in tbe . growing season.· This service to the needy was necessarilY 'an interruption to .the usual activ- - ities of ~he county agent~ . . . , ~ . .,... r. .. ~ , ," . ' . /(s Tn earlier years 'tlle--farm demonstration agents in 1916 were largely engaged itl the following usual lines of activity: ' . , ~ Assi.stin~ , ~ the construction of silos, dipptng vats, barns, and ,other fa~ buildings. . Supervision of demonstration fields of cotton, corn, peanuts, oats, Wheat, velvet be~s, sweet . potatoes, etc. Promoting the planting of an increased acreage cir oats, Wheat, . rye, and of such soil-improving winter cover crops as bur 'clover, crimson clover and vetch. #- "~r Assisting in organizing boysl copn and four-crop clubs, pi,g clubs, etc., . . and cooperating wi.th .the 27 home demn~tration agents or tl;le Extension Service in tHeir work for girls ain 'Women ~ Special stress has been laid during tlie past year on the following lines of endeavor: r (1) ,Organi~1ng t~~rs tor a n~ber ot agricultural purposes" esPecially for ~ ~ .. ( - - . -- - - ------- ----- - - ------ --- --------------- ------ (a) the better . marke~ing of their products;. (b) fpr · the cooperative purchase of purebr ed Ii va stock; ." .... . , (2) Encouraging the raising of hogs, not only for home consumption but as a sale product, - thus supplying, a :;ource of revenue available~ to every farmer as a means of making him more indep~ndent of cotton as a sale "crop; (3) (4) , , . Introduction of purebred cattle, especially bullsl ' Encouraging the more g~neral use of lime. . r I j". • . . Org,mizations . ~ ! , . That progress is b,~ing ~a!ie . ~n . getting fanners to organize for their eco­nomic good is evidenced by, the n\lIllber of farmers' organizations in which the demonstration agents assisted. aepQrts available at this date from only 29 of the lmite agents show in thei. counties a total of l62. fanners·1 organizations with a total membership of' nearlY f~ve thousand. ~ . , . .' In the effort to bring about a. sudden increase in pork production special campaigns were conducted by. the agents, alone and in conjunction'with the hog cholera specialist and otherr,experts from Auburn, with a view to ' pointing out the means of producing PQrk econQmically on forage plants or special. "hog cropstf, to shOwing the m~aIlS for ,preventing the spread of hog ',cholera, carrying information about the practicability of marketing hogs, etc. . ' , : .. t' J I As a part of the same 'p;lan" agents, in whose counties hog cholera pre­vailed, inoculated many th911.J~d~ _ 0", hogs. For example, in one county the agent, within a period of considt';ra'tllY less than a year, inoculated 9, 566 hogs. ' More than 80 carloads ~9t .hogs Ve.re marketed from each of ~eVeral counties where a few years ago the "$1ipmel}t Qt a single carload was a · rare event. .. . The following is a ~ist of F.~ Demonstration Agents, arranged alphabeti­cally by counties as the fo:r.ce , w~s Qrganized ready to begin tlle ~ new year' s work just after the close of the fiscal year covered by th-is .. ':report: . - ' Countl , A~ents r l. ., " '" .. . > Autauga w. D. Barton • '1·" Baldwin ... ' . • . < G. v. Stelzemnuller Barbour H. C. Heath • \, "',,":\ Bibb .I';i · ... J. w. Mitchell ') ; Blount Ernest Carnes .. r· j "! ' Bullock J . A. Mc~od Calhoun - .. . : . . ~.. ... ..... L. G• Prentice Chambers R. s. Parker , Cherokee , j J. ~, .~ h '1. I. .r , ~N. · , H. Brbw:n ~ " f ' ~ . '1 : ., , .... , . ' , .' "- .. ,.,.L Chilton w. H. Oonway" ~ ,. ~ ... .;J~r if 1o. ' \ ' ," • I •• 1 ~" , ~ ... ~ r ~ • - " .... l .. . ' J - Choctaw . ..: A. ·~G. ,HaITell , . ~ . -v' , < L. ~ Clarke E. C. Calhoun I .. Clay ~,~ H.··.L. AJ.;sobrook r ~ ~ t ' ",. - t: I~ ~ - :.. Coffee r'1::', f, .: ', .' J • E. Pittntan ~ ; :. ~ • I') r Cleburne E. R. Carl~n , Coyington , t J. P. Wilson . ' . , , . I . . .;. /' Copsa . . :\ ...l' r . . . s. 1-1. Day Crenshaw R. C. Carlisl e ., --- ---- ---------- ---- -- --- -- - , - , . County, Cont. Agents, Cont. Cullman J . K. Turner Dall as · John Blake DeKalb ' , J . F. Bozemon Elmore w. H. Bachelor Esc ambia J . E. Moses Etowah ... I A • R~ 'Gis aendanner Fayette R. G. Arnold Franklin . ' R • c. Maples Geneva E. w. Jenkins Greene J . E. Gray Hale w. H. Knight Henry w. F. Murphy Houston .- , , L. J. 'Thompson - , . , ' Jackson ! , . D. D. Gibson <c Jefferson L. A. EWnondson . '. Jefferson ' , I ; H. L. Brown A Lauderdale • C ~ · L. HolliDgsworth Lawrence Garth Gilchrist 1 - -) Lee C. M~ Floyd: : 'Limestone Fred Stewart ~. ) .. , ~ lowndes W." o. Winston '.I. r - , I ' , I Macon . . H• . A.. Vau€1lan·' ' . . ,. Madison C. ' F. Striplin • 1· .I Marengo ' , Frank 'R. ' Curt1.s J , p~ ~ Marion c. w. Frederick Mobile , Geo . A. ' )Ialbney J ' t v Montgomery t .... I . T. QttIim . , " I ~ - ' .. . ~ High' , , . ' Morgan ' - ~ T J. T. 'L •• .J " '. Perry w. M. Eiland Pike ( '.: .. .. , , L • J. Hawley ., . . e' 1 ~ ,. .; -- Pickens .. I, ' w. H. StOrey ~ , . • ( . I .. l . , Raooolph J . D. Wood r- ·Russell. ... , w. M. Sellers " ., ., ' - " , : . ~ -, I , ~ ~ Shelby r .... . ' ..... - J . ' N. WYatt .. .q ..... ,! . "st. Clair John Yarbrough ~ Talladega w. T. Coker Tallapoosa _ I Y w. H. Pace " Tuscaloosa R. C. Lett Tuscaloosa ' . E. l.fims ,# ." ,. I .. Walker r " 1"9. J . W. Sartain Washington f. f ,. (' .... • H. H • Best ·r • Wilcox r ' A. H. Barnett Winston G. W. Gibson .. " ,, , l • , , .' . ' '; . ,t Home Demonstration Work Progress has been made in the tiscal year in increasing th& number of Home Demonstration Agents from 19 :to 27, .located in as many counties, 'and 'in notably lengthening the average period 'of'. employment. " The enrollment in canning clubs was 2,270, and tm total enrollment, includ-ing girls and women, in all lines of. ac.~ivity was 3,450 . :~ In addition to the usual work of the canning clubs, home demOnstration clubs . for t«nnen are now organized in 13' count;ies, with an enrollment of 838. Probably --- - - - - - - -- - - --- the most notable innovation in l«>rk for women and girl s was t he 1a.'?ld~g , o_~ _,~Re first few county short courses f or girl s and w::>rnen. The number of these was in­creased soon after the end of t he fiscal year, so t hat before the end of the calendar year such courses bad been held in 19 counties, attended by 65 club girls and 1,149 women and other visi ters. The 'second annual State short: course was held a t Montevallo. 'The re Were present 69 club girls from .26 'counties, who were instructed during the greater part of the week in canning, cooking, sewing, and in methods of conducting club meetings. . The number of demonstrations reported for the canning season was as follows: 331 in cooking; 220 in canning and preserving;. 173 in home-made conveniences; 41 in se:.wri ng; 34 in but ter making; 28 in basketry Among other ac.tivities of the girls' clubs, :other than canning, may be mentio~d sewing (in making at caps, apronflJ'~" aJid .dresses); basket making from pine needles and other inexpensive material; 'the planting of wititer g&roens by 975 organized girls and women; and the planting of a number o£ 1mi t trees.' , . Rest Rooms. - Few innovations are more needed to promote the cordial re­lations that should exist between country peop~e 'and town people than the establish­ment of rest rooms in every town where a:rry considerable number of fanners and their families traP-e . . Tbese serve as welcome headquarters for ' farmers ' wives am childre,n, whUre s~nd,ing the' day in town, reduce 'the fatigUe .of' shopping trips, supply reading' matter ~ f~ those' who wait, and have a distinet"soc1al value. J' , , H~me dem9,ns~ati.on ~ agent,s have been active 'in ehlis:t~ the interest of local chambers of commerce and other civic bodiss in' this matter; it is largely through their efforts that 18 rest rooms have been established in Alabama towns and citie~ in counties where: home demonstration agents 'are employed. -These are usually at the, county seats, and in 'these rest rooms tbe home demonstration agent usually spends her Satllr(iays, in conference with. the fam girls and women. There follows the list of organized counties and the names of the Home Demonstration Agents now emplo~e~. _ County Autauga Baldwin Calhoun Chilton Co ne cuh Coosa De Kalb Elmore Escambia Etowah Franklin Jefferson Lauderdale Agents Zelma Gaines Lillie M. Wetzel 11ah W. Polhill Lida Jones Mary Frank Sturdivant Louise S. Day Frank Dobbs leo Zeigler Lucile Carter Dianna Bankson Anne Elizabeth Duncan Eva Beatr ice · Shipp ' May Iretie Cureton ' ~ . - - - - - - - - --- - - .county, Cont. Lee Macon Madia>n Marengo Marshall Mobile l1onroe Pickens Pike st. Clair Talladega Tallapoosa Tuscaloosa ~~alker r .., .~ .... _ .. w · Poultry Ataents, Cont • Bessie Collins Moore Clara Sullivan Louise S. Thomas Stella Harnes Ida Robertson Jessica E. McGuire ·Bessie Carter Courtenay Fontaine Florence D. Wilson Selma E. Ash Ann R. Davis Genie Martin J .. L. S. Brow Dora Etta Davis ' . _ t A small amount was alloted for. ExtenSion ~rk with pdu1try. A lecturer on this subject was emplOY~ to give tnstrttction- at a number of Movable or Exten': sion Schools. Then the proj'ect was tempora.rily suspended so ' that the' remaining fund s mi.ght be used to increase- the number and the length of employment of the Home Demonstration Agents. Farm Demonstration Work for Negroes For a number of years there have been employed, by the U •. S. 'Depart.tEnt of Agriculture, in special demonstration work tor -the' negro far.mers of Alabama, one district demonstration agent and six Ilt9gro demonstratitm agents in as many counties. Under the general memorandum of understanding by which the Extension Service took over the sup$rvision of all of the Department I s EXtension lit) rk in Alabama these' agents ,were continued. ' During the. past' year there were added from the Smith-Lever' funds four ' additional' negro agents for the greater part of the year, and two more for the last few 1JlOnths of the fiscal year. Thus at the close. of the fiscal year there were 12 Negro demonstration agents in 11 counties, as follows: Countz Agents Bullock M. B. Ivy " . , - Dallas T. H. Toodle Lee C. D. Menafee Lowndes N. L. Johnson Macon c. w. Green Madiron G. w. Patterson Madison P. c. Parks Marengo P. J. Brown Montgomery J. P. Phillips Randolph J. B. McPherson Sumter T. w. Scales Wilcox F. L. Bennett These agents engage in the same , character or work for Negro farmers as is performed by the white agents, chieflY for white farmers. In most cases the . .... J requests for . the employment of such agents have co~ largely ' from white tanners who realize the need of · having demonst ration work done as·.·a mean;; of increasing t he agriculturai efficiency of their tenants and. other, Negro farme.rs. These Negro agents have the counsel and he~p of the white.-,demoIlBtration agents . located in the same counties. One' of these agents is located at the A.&M., College for Negroes at Normal, Alabama, and his activities ' extend throuih a number of counties in the northern part of , the state. , One line of ~rk that he ,is .conducting cOt;;lsifilts ,in the organization and , su~rvis~~n .o+ School Fa~ Clubs~ Their special activity is the working of land by. school children or . their parents as a me~s of rais~ revenue : fo r improved school . equipment, ' a~ well as for ~~. instruc tion of the pupils in the, growing of crops. He reports 11 activ~ ' f~ c~ubs in operation ' ip the past : fiscal ,year, with a total enrollment of 365 school· children • . C- ,", .. , Home 'Demonstration Work £O'r Negroes , ..!' - . ~ ~. .. 'J , . . , . "'.. • t." . .' , - . A beginrting has been made in the effort to help the llome-makers of ;the . Negro ' race by the appointment of one Hotie 'nemonstJ;ation Agent ' for Negroes. ' . . ,- . In accordance w,ith the general policy of · co~uc.ting th~ Neg~ ~rk as largely as po~~ible .~ cooQeTation ,lli1!h .the tl!O l~adi~g educ,tional ins~itutions for ~hat X'ace" the first hQme ec,o~mic' s speci~ist, for Neu.oes ,was located at · Tuskegee, . and. most ,of,her .}work ,~s done itl ,the cou~ties of,--.that p~t Qf. thQ ' state. 'However, ' she assists in Movable. or Extension Schools for Negx:ooes ,.inc , other E.ar~s of the st~te. ,,: .~ ," . . . . v ' , Movable , o'n:. Ext~ns~on School~ ~r A,gricUl tU:~ . . and H~me Economics . ~. "..- Each Movable or Extension School has separate sessions for farmers and for 'WOmen. Some .o-f the sessions .. are in common and devoted ,to. topics o'f fllterest to bot!'!. ~ar;m.er-s '~d.' their families. ' .S,eparate :Movabl~ ,or j!!x&ension ~hQol~ are .. -') held fqr. the two races • . : The fellowi.ng -,statistics are· qompUed .fro]8 the' reports of the J~onductors of these schools • . ,. Slch ·schools f<>r -whites cW'er.e held in 22 countie~ and ,a~tE,nded ' by ~,650 ,· people . ' " f . " . _' " ., ,, " .. ;. f .; " ... . . . - t'" ~!. ,", ('! • ..\,..c;. .. Movable or, ~tel).siQn . Schools , of Agriculture and Home :Economics for Negroes" were held ,in 14 counti&s, with .an e.stimated attendance' of· 6;768. The attepdance of ~ . )lumber, of 'white famers a's v:isitors or. s~aken:; on sofOO' of .the Movable ' Schools for Negroes sqows the ·general interest in this lin~ of ]iOrk,. ,': t ~ , Marketing ',-, A ; I'" One f~nction of _the Extension cService is·' ~ -help in inf~rming the' farmers of Alabama .pf means by which they mq mark~t thJeir pro9-uc~s to bette~· advantage'. This ,iJriplies inst~uc~ion· reg,ardin~ methods of orgapd.zatioJ} for cQoperative , market'ing, standardization of v~~ieties of fi:e.ld crops, ~d of . other farm pro- ' .' ducts, methods of paCking, etc. . " _, , ' . While but a small amount was available for the marketingproject' in. the past fiscal year, this subject was presented by Extension speal<:ers in a large number of meetings, and help rendered to the county demonstration agents in orgB1lizing a number of cooperat~,ve' marketi~,g associ~:tiqns. In ~dclltion, the, growers of Johnson grass ,and alfalfa hay w~re assisted-,in form,ing. an association for the mora satisfas-tory~ ~ket.i?g of these, h:q,~."" . " , One of the local l1larketing associations thus fostered immediate'ly effected --'- - - - the savi~ or, ahout. 20 percent to its members in the cooperative purchase of velvet bean seed', and se'cured an 'agr eement as ~o what varieti es of certaip. crops should· he gtown for mar ket. · This fall this association :received reque sts for quotations on a mueh larger amount of diversified farm products than i t s '. members were able to supply. . ' '. Agric~ltUral Engineering Pror~ss:>r R. ' ~. Blasingame was , appointed Agricl1lt~a+ Engineer. H~ is a l' '. graduate of the Alabi-ina PolytecImic InS'titute, ~o, ~~r ' rece.iving spec;J.al training ' in a Western institution, ~as ' at the time of ~iS employment, July 1915, in charge of the Department ()( Agric~tural ' Erigineering' of the ' Pennsyl~ania " . Agricultural College. ' He'; is employed ,ih' Extension ' wo~k for twelve~twentieths ot his time . * He endeavors to divide that part of his time for 'which he is' paid from Extension fums about equally between services rendered, on the one hand, to farmers in the matter of planning' 'barns, silos, and other farm structures, and in the utilization of labor-saving machiner.r, and, on the other han4, ~ervices renderedvin the i11terests ·of wOmants work, especi~lly the 'n.atter of home water-works and sanitary convenienCes ~ . . . ~.. , ' v J '. .' During' the fi§cal ,year·i the AgriciultUhl 'Engllje-er pr'epar~' fo.~ famers -. nUl'llerous plans for lJatns,- woOden- hoop sUos,' 'hay raCks', gate~, e~. ; gave " advice' and other help in the 'plamiing 'and erec~io~ ' ot , 10 co-ncre'te "silos; fUr.;. nished ~ fannet?B and· 'demonstration agent's 170 blueprlnt~ of -farm structures; • _ r and wrote -1,)00' lEttters~ ' He alSo' partiCipated in 14 nie~ti~gs, in ~lrlch he . - talked to about 1,000 people. A number of surveys for farm and ' hOme 'water- - works was made and four hydraulic rams installed. Most of the above work was r :" • ( . done in connection With the county demonstration":agent's • . ~ ' ~ {'> I ' Extension Work with Beef Cattle r" ~ - - . ~ '1'ne-"Extension 'SpeCialist ~~~ -AnimaJ. 'Husbah~ , 'qarl ri., 'Filler, 'is emplo~cf c09pet*atfvely by · the" Al:abama '~'ens,io~ 'Service, '8Jldr ·the' Bureau of Arlima1 'In- , dustry of the U. ',S. Depat'1iment of Agx":tcul'Eure • . Rehas l«>rkea. :ehietly in tae - counties already rrreed 'froM ticks'; an:! ' in n1ne,"Of the~e he lIas 'coriducted 'ri!gu~ . lar demonstrations in cattle feeding. In s6'V'eri 'of' these demonst.i'ations 385" ( head of beef cattle were fed, and on thirteen other farms he supervlsed the wintering of ,1,212 ,head. He has' i9ndered serVices wn!,rever' Po$'sibl~ to, the ' . ' ... ('" ~ .,. .. ~ - r ~ county. agents J.n the formation of livestock as,so~iatibns, ~ inenc,ouragin.g. - .' breeding of beef cattle, and in 'selecting a~ brlngf.ng ::rntb ~he' -State a number of purehred ca-ttle. He attetlded 43 'meeti-ngs; in which addressed 3, 675 people. ' ~ Dairying Thei Dafl!y Exp'ert 'has been jom-t1y employed by the 'Extepsion SerVice and the Dafry; DiviSion -of the U~ S,. Department "of Agriculture. ' . JIe has b~ena~tiyely at work in· -a number of. counties, ~d ~as been, on~ 0.£- the agenc;le~ re~.on'sl.ole . for -the rapid 'increase in the .'prOduetion ot, butter; ' and in :the e·stab.l is.,h lnent · of creameries at Selma, Auburn, and Talladega. . J !, .... , . I ' As Slowing the rapid growth of the dairy indUstry pmy 'be mentioned the following instances: ' ".. ' ,-" .' I . . , The Selma creamery rose' froM a monthly 'producti on 0£ '4, OOO poums ' ~ June 1915 to 11,01J pounds- the following May. Meant~; .. the 'number of ,'patrons" increased from 25 to 104. Its r ate 'of increase througfi the 'remainizlg months' ~ of the calendar year has been even more r apid. . . i' , L ---. - --- --- In one c~mmuiiity th~ sales of ;cream ~n :Qe cem'ber ' 1915 ,wei-e onlt $12. 00 and by the next May this had ' increased to more ,t han $400.-00. ," .. ' ~. ' . ,j" .. • ~ /' .t' The Dairy Expert gave seventeen demonstrations 'i n 'the use "of the Babcock tester, 5 of which r esulted in the purchase of test ers and in their continuous use. One of his de~onstrat~ons in butter making resulted- in . rai~ing. the 'price" received by a certain fanner 'from 20 cents per pound before receiving , the 1n- ' struction to 30 and 35 cents afterwaros. . The Dairy Expert participated in 37 meetings, having an attendance of 1,692. He, has a record (doubtless incomplete) Qf 63 silo~ , built in Alabama during the fiscal year. These were about equally divided between the conc~ete, the stave and the wood-hoop type . , Nearly all of these were built where ,a demonstration silo had previously. been erected as a ' partof the Extension work of a preceding year. · . ' , ~ .: . - • I. • ., .. • '-.. -, The agronomist for Extension attended 110 meetings, on wnich the total attendance ._ w~s 16, 013. The . assistant agronomis~ , who , giv~,!3 ,only a /part of his time to Extension w~rk, attended 29 meetings, wit~ a total, a~t.endance , of 4111. , The agronom;i~t for 'Extension has also ,acted ,as editor and ,as assistant,.in · agricultural corre,8pQndenceduring the abseneeot :the ,Director, .. who orc1inarily handles Extension correspo,ndence on field crops .. ' The assistant agronomist has acted as advance agent in arrapging for some "of .tpe Movable or Extension Schools, and both the agronomist and assistant have taken part in' a ' nwnber of these ~hoob . . ' , J" Community Programs , " . This minor, project was conducted in cooperation with 'the' division of Rural Organization of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; and was supervised by the agronomist for Extension. Programs and suggestioru3 were supplied for 150 conununity meetings and programs and outlines vere prepared. for discussion in such meetings on 22 topics in agriculture ·and home ec'onomics. ' .. • 0. .. .... Boys' Clubs . Boysf Com Clubs were ,in operation in eaqh af,..the 67 , ~unties~ with a , total enrollment of 3,870 . '~ ,-- v J " Faur-CroI? Clubs were organized in le counties, with a total enrollment of 571. Reports of yields of /corn secured have not yet been averaged. Unfavora~le weather conditions reduced the e"Pected yields and otherwise interfered with several lines of work. . ' A corn club school was held at AubUrn in July 1915 and was atte~ded by"221 boys from 64 counties. Boys' pig Club s :" f. ' " • I This work , conducted ~ in cooperation with' the Bureau, of-Animal !ndustry-,:" U. S. Department of Agriculture, has had a successful year with a considerable incr ease in the number of organized counties. The following 37 counties now conduct organized pig club work: Aut auga, Baldwin, Barbour, Blount, Bullock, ----- ------------------------------------- --- . - \ ~ Butler, Chi lton, Clay, Colbert, Coosa, Cul lman, Escambia, E towa~ , Fayette, Geneva, Hertry, Houston, Jefferson, Lamar, Lauderdal e, Lee, ' Limest one, Macon, Madison, Marengo , Marion, I~ar shall , Mobile, Morgan, Montgomery; Pickens, Pi ke, Russell" Shelby, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker. The total enrollment was 3.bout 4100, including 250 members of clubs in ' other 'counties tlian 'those mentioned above. ' Monthly' programs il~re furnished to · 69 clubs with a total membership of about 700. " (. Educational and Demonstrational Work with Hog Cholera , An ~ eXpert of the Bureau of Ainmal Industry, U. S. Depar'tmentof Agriculture; was placed at the disposal of the Extension Service for educational work with county agents and farmers on the subject of hog cholera. He was aq.vised in ' subject matter, and otherwise, by the state Veterinarian, Dr. C. A. Cary. Dr. H. C. Wilson, who has carried on this work, has visited most of the counties in the state, has given nwnerous demonstrations in inoculating hogs, and in sanitation of lots and barns, working usually in cooperation with the county demonstr~tion agents. He h8.s also fostered the ' organization of ' associations of Swine ,ra;1sers with a view to neighborhood ~ control ot' 'hog ·cholera. Within tl)e year, and partly , resulting from the activity of Dr. Itlilson, the county agents, and other eXp,erts~ there has been a ph~nomenal incre~se in the number' of hogs raised on Alabama. ' fanns, both for' home use and far sale. A packing plant established at Andalusia has been one of the incentives to increased .reliance on hog r~isfng orithe tarms' in the southern part of the state. " . , Extension Work by Speciali~ts of College and Experiment Station Arrangements were made with~n the fisc~l year, under discussion, ~or utilizing in ' E~tension work a small proportion of the time of the heads of the follOwing Departments of College and Experimen~ Station: . ' Animal Husbandry -' (Frof . Geo'. S~ ' Templeton) ; Entomology ~Dr. W. E. Hinds); , OJ Horticulture (Professor Ernest Walker) This was done in order to utilize th~ir ~ervices in Extension corre~on­dence, iIi occasional meetings, and in giving expert advice to county agents or other full- time Extension employees. t The Entomologist and hi~ a$si~tant parti~ipated ' in 116 meetings, on-which the recorded attendance was 23,800, and mailed about 2,800 letters • . The ,Horticulturist and his assistants took partin 16 meetings, ~th an attendance of 2100. Each of these men counseled with county demonstration ~gents as called on and gave expert advice to ' other member s of the EXtension force . The Animal Husbandman, besides 'tiriting 2,;no letters for Extension, was in frequent consultation with the Dair,y Expert and the Beef Cattle Expert in Extension work, botb of whom, as also the Pig Club agent, are associated in subject matter with bls department. ' - ----- - -, I I I 22.0 , Summary statement of Expenditures, by Projects, Shovling Sources of Fundsl Used Projects Administr.ation Printing & Distri­bution of Pub . County Agents Home Economics for Negro '-lomen & Girls Movable Schools & Farmers' Courses Boys' Club Work Girls I Club Work Pig Clubs Agronomist Departmental Spec. Community Programs Dairy Extension Negro Agents Marketing Agric. Engineer Beef Cattle Total: for Extension Work Total Smith-Lever College2 State2 County2 Other2 Fed. state $ 5872.00 $5872.00 1123. 48 1123. 48 45b33. 24 1353.82 $15939.68 831. 48 831048 2198. 57 4114. 64 2198. 57 3618. 24 $22109. 51 13206.89 1191. 27 2753.02 1172. 00 496. 40 7719002 1191. 27 2753.02 1172. 60 1933.90 $845. 22 $2708. 75 105. 59 1273. 61 2204. 26 448. 63 1901. 22 846.85 105. 59 1273. 61 23)4. 26 448. 63 1901. 22 846.85 $5631. 23 84278. 35 31491.82 21491082 845.22 22109. 51 2708. 75 5631. 23 1. Not including Federal Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Fund. 2. In excess of Smith-Lever Offsets. ~ :. ,: -" .1 . I, I beg leave to state that the Faculty, after due consideration recommend t he fo 11O'tving B. S. Degrees , ,,".[ Bachelor of Science Saul Perr,y ,Adelson Irvin Gravely Ammen William King Askew Thomson William Bailey Hammond Dudley Baker Harrison Bates Theodore Russell Benning Roger McIver Bostick' George Randolph Bowling HOl-lard Milton Boyd ~alliam McClellan 'Bruce Cyril Kenneth Bryan Frate Bull Hugh otis Burgess Frm cis William Burns Guy Olney Burns Charle s Cleveland Bush Hugh William Caffey Colonel Richard Carnes Abner Boone Chapman J arne s Arthur Chappell ' Mary Glenn CrenShaw Lewis Battle Dean Leo Donovan John Andrew Dougl~'s" , . Albert Hugh Dumas Julius Eagle Annalee Edwards Harrison Bartow Emerson Seth Jordan Floyd Gordon Greene Ford Joseph Marshall Foulks Loraine Walker Funk " Daniel Andrew 'Heimick Edward Beverly HenrY" James Edwin Hickey,- Jr. Lavie Pierce Hodnet~e R~ Milton House Leon Ledyard Jeffrey John William Johnston , George Allard Kaufmann James Marion KelleY; 'Jr. Captain Tullis Knight George Rufu~ Mays Lesley Bateson McCoy Thomas Turner McLemore Oscar L. McMurray Lalirence Marvin McRae James Kirk Newell John Carew Powell Homer Prendergast Graduates 1. ' Jefferson Jefferson Marengo ' Jefferson Lee South Carolina Georgia l1ississippi Tallapoosa Lee vlilcox Blount Marion Cleburne Clay Lauderdale Talladega Jefferson Marion Covington Jefferson Lee !rallapoosa • DaJ-las Mobile' Lee. Dallas r Lee Etowah Lee ' Frcnklin louisiana Sou th Carolina . Jefferson ' ," lee Montgoniery Macon !' ' Calhoun Wilcox Blount Louisiana Georgia Barbour' :Haridh ' I' ( '';' Escambia Jefferson Franklin " Chambers Tallapoosa Montgomery Texas , . 'r r _?.. ". - ..').. - B. S. B. S. William Thomson Price Bryan Pritchett James Frederick Pruett Dibble Mauley Rickenbaker Walter Hugh Roberts Carey Carlisle Robinson J arne s Donald Russell Atlee Davis Sample Abb LlewellYn Scarbrough John Hadley Scott Harry Berry Seyb t John Parker Shaffer Sylvester Guim Shari t James Edgar Shotts Frank King Simmons Augustus Hoke Sloan Harr.y Peckham sparkes William Augustus Stickney Philip Avery Terrell Richard Hartwell Thach Herbert Wright Thomason John Earle Thomason Ira Asa Thompson Lovell Lach Turley Conrs.d Gray Wall Alfred Benjamin Walter, Jr. John Meriwether Ward Jesse Jordan Warren George Egbert Weber, Jr. James Walls,ce Whatley, Jr. William Lemuel White vfueeler Williams, Jr. David A. Woodard Barbara Wright Graduates With Honor Glenn Andrews, Jr. William Watson Barrow Walter Gustavus Bevill, Jr. Roy Gatman Carpenter Ernest Linwood Deal Joseph Best Grimsley . Henry Harris House William Jesse Isbell Thomas McDonald Jone-s Thomas Jefferson J~rdan William Robert Lassiter Hester Marion Lewis William wyman Owens Allen Benjamin Pimm Eunice Rebecca Stodghill Shu Min ''lang Tuscaloosa Clarke Russell South Carolina Baldwin Lee Calhoun Morgan Calhoun Tennessee Sou th Carolina Tallapoosa Jefferson Marion Florida South Carolina Jefferson Calhoun Lee Lee Lee Lamar Pike Missouri Jefferson Louisiana Greene Montgomery Lee Lee Jefferson Russell Louisiana Lee Montgomery South Carolina Hale . Marion Tusc~loosa Georgia Etowah . ~ Lee • ..,1 Coosa J ]-1ar s,hall Lee Bibb Pike Florida Lee China C' r (. . "1,- Graduates With Highest Honor vlilli am Lee.. Blanton J arne s Roy Hine s Florida Chambers Charles L. Isbell Phares Wood Matthews Wilbur Thomas Shinholser Lamar Mims Ware Gordon \-lorley Lee Jefferson Georgia Georgia . Tallapoosa Graduates in Pharmacy. Ph. G. Ph.G. Leslie Allen"Akins Charle s r1B.rtin Cherry Ernest Matkin Dunn James Thomas Farmer Henry Carl Fischer' Pugh Bryan Harris Glover Abraham Johnston George Lawrence Morris Byron Ross McBryde Henry Erskine McNamara Rhett Goode Reynolds Carl Vernon .Tanner Graduates Charle~ George Yarbrough . Barbour Houston Marengo Geneva Cullman Pike Cherokee Crenshaw '" _G~neva Jefferson Crenshaw Mobile Monroe Graduat~s in veterlnary Medicine, ~ D. V.M. D.V.M. .. . '. -, Dee Lloyd Allen William Elmer Bachelor Carey Linwood Bell Daniel Lorenzo Campbell Elmer Bernard Campbell Billy Elza Carlisle Hosmer Lafayette Farr Coudie Pugh Gaston Robert Henry Glenn Leonard Johnston Hill Thaddeus Henry Ingram, Jr. Byron Newman Lauderdale Harmon King ~w . r William Lonnie Parrish Leon Lewis Powell Walter James Schimmel Edward Hemter Welles Post Graduate Degrees ( Master of Science ;- M. S. · James Warren Andrews Joseph Calloway Frank Kitchell Nexbitt Samuel Andrew Wingard Sumter Elmore ~ North Caro lina Marrshall Marshall Macon Jefferson Wilcox South Carolina Ca:lhoun Lee Coosa Pike Chilton Choctaw Jefferson t · Tennessee t Montgomery­Montgomery Jefferson Hontgoroory , ,. o • , '. . r. :-' Professi onal Degr ees in Course . Charles Hereford Giimann Percy Reynolds Smith Civil Engineer Electrical Engineer Lee Irwin Davis Harr,y Gordon Farris Thomas Christopher Rives Edward Gatchell George Lampros Mechanical Engineer • r Jefferson Jefferson Mobile Etowah Montgomery Lee 110ntgQmery . ,. r " The Budget for the Term 1917-1918 , Endowment 2nd Morrill state Funds Hatch Adams LOcal Lever Total Fees, Etc. EXj). . $20,280 $28,550 $40,000 $15, 000 $15,000 President Thach, C. C. 12 mos. 3,000 1,400 600 $5, 000 Mathematics • . .. Cr enshaw,B.H. 9mos. 1,000 1,000 roo 2,200 Ci vil Engineer Mitcham,G. N.9 mos. 1,000 1,000 200 t · 2, t5Jol- History & Latin 125 Supt . Chmn. Ex. Com. Waterworks Petri e, Geo. 9 mos. 2,000 600 ))0 2,900 Meehan. Engineer Supt. Grounds . I Wilmore,J. J .9 mos. 1,700 900 2, 600 Phys. Vet. Sci. & State Vet. Cary, C.A. 12 mos. 400 1,400 600(st. Vet. 5(0) .T 2,400,l Pharmacy 300 Serum Blake, L. S. ~v Plant 9 mos. 1,800 200 ... 2,000 Ag. & Director of ,. 'I"" Station Duggar,J. F. 12 mos. 1,600 500 1,000,l 3,4001- E1ec. Engineer . - 300 Lev. Res • Dunstan,A. St C. 9mos. 2,000 " 200 2, 200 Geol. & Mining Engineer Brown, R. L. 9 mos. 300 1,800 T 2,100 Mod. Languages . Wiatt, J . E. 9 mos. 1,800 400 2,200 Botany Robbins, \v. J . 12 mos. 1,000 Physi cs 100 900 2, 000 Duns t an,A. St . C. 9 mos . 1, OOO 1, 000 -- - --"- - - --------- Endowment. 2nd Morril l state Funds Hatch , Adams Hort. & state Hort. $ ~ starcher, G. C. 12 mos. 2nd Prof. Math. Messick, J . F. 9 mos. Architecture Biggin, F. C. 9 mos. Entomology Hinds, W. E. 12 mos. Mathematics Patrick, B. S. 9 mos. 700 Prof. Chemistry Ross, E. B. 12 mos. 1,000 · Clerk 'Chem. t Chern. of Soils Prof. pnys. Chem. Hare, G. L. 12 mos. 600 Prof. Anal. Chem. Bragg, ~ T . Asst. Prof. Chern. Powell, P. P. 12 mos. A.nal. Chemist Jackson, J .B. 12 mos. Asst. in Chem. in Adams Exp. 12 mos. Assts. in Chem. Martin & Clift 12 mos. Asst. in Chem. Feedstuffs 12 mos. Fror. Mech. Draw. and Ma~h . Design Fullan, M. T. 12 mos. 950 Prof. Elee. & Tel. Engr. Hill, W. W. 12 mos. 700 Inst. Mech. Engr. & Math .. Stokes, W. B. Asst. in Drawing & Band master Thomas; A. L. 9 mos. Instr., in Woodwork Askew,· ~'. A.. Dir. & Prof. Phys. CuI. Ins. in Latin & Math. Donahue', H. J . Prof. Animal Husbandry Templeton, G. S. 12 mos. Prof. Educa. (Dir. & prof. Summer Session) Judd, Z. V. 12 mos. Asst. Prof. An. Husb. Ferguson, H. C. 12 mos. Herdsman Ford Morris, 12 mos. Assoc. Prof. Hort. St. Hort. Pr i ce, J.C. 12 mos. , . $ 1, 100 1,000 1,000 700 300 650 750 state Hort. 500 700 Fees; Etc: - 450 900 1,000 300 ~ 100 1, 400 100 1,800 2)0 400 , , . 900 200 2)0 1, 400 700 1,200(Ath. Dir. 700) 1, 2)0 1, 300 100 1,000 100 65o 300 (Feedstuff s 800) 400 1,300 (Power Plant 5qo) 750 t 1,500 900 3'. 250 725 400 --------------------------------------- - ------------- . ' Local Lever Total }?cp. 0 $ $ $ 30.0 ,- 1?0 f,2 20f Resid. ~ 1,900 2~ OOO 900 .300 31°00 ~ , . . 1,500 3,000 200 2;000 -2 200 I. . i ,500f ~ 700 1,200 1,300 , 850 • . l,ooof I Scholar ship ~O I Cle rks~Bt 0 , 800 ~ t 2,000 , · 2,ooof • ~ O . 1, 500 • < ~ JL,.5 00 ' ,=," 9.00 ·.HIe .tmageli .L), 1. ( - 1.0 Endowment ~ 2nd Morrill -state Funds Hatch · Adams - Local Lever Total . . Fee s, Et c. ~. $2) ,280 $28 , .5.50 $40, 000 $1.5, 000 $15,000 . "'sst~. Vet. Sci. HcAdory, I . S. Ferguson, C. \v. Webb, w. w. Sugg) R. s. 4300 Prof ~ Agronomy Funchess, M. J. 12 mos. Treasurer Gl enn, M. A. 12 mos. 650 . - 750 As st. to Treas. Inst . in Botany Hassey, A. B. 12 mos. Asst. Entomo1. Thomas, F. L. 12 mos. As st., in Pharmacy Hotley, E. T. 12 mos. Scho4r ship s (l)Con. (2) Engl. (3 {Hi~tory (4) Bot. ( 4-2 )Hort. (5)Hecho Arts (6)Shop (7)Forg. (8)Mining & C. E. (9)Mach. Des. (10)Chem. (11) An. Husbandry (ll!) Waterworks (l2) (a)Botany(b)Agricult. Recording Clerks Burbage , Reed,Thomas 750 Registrar & Asst. in Math. Shi, B. L. stenog. to the Pres. Bush &-Goodbread Asst. Prof. Math. Shi, B. L. 12 mos. Libr~ian, Prof. Eng. Rutland, J .R. 9 mos. 550 Prof. Educa. & Prof. Summer Session Blasingame ,W. C. 12 mos. Asst. ~Librarian Miss Martin 12 mos. A sst s ~ Hist. & Latin Reynolds & Andrews Surgeon Dr. J ... H. Drake Instr. Physics Elec. -Engineer 9 mos. Instr. Mech. Eng. & Shop Hixon, C. R. 9 mos. . I $4, 300 (McAdory 1500) 4.50 500 1,5.50 1,000 100 500 1,000 100 500 100 500 700 300 ?,OOO 350 1QO 1,760 Treas •. Dep. n~oto e~8ea 2,000 300 . 1., 400 500 300 . .1 , 4. 00 . . 500 .. . :. 3,000 (a)Bot. (50) 300 700 1, 000 1,050 2,400 t 650 1,.300 2i.500 750 1, 300 (b )Agr. (tOO 6 {c 20 250 750 ~ 1 20b '. 2.,400" . 90b 1, .300 • 2~.50P. . 750 The Budget 1917-18 Endowment 2nd Morrill state Funds Hatch ,Adams Local !.ever Total - Fees, Etc. .' - - '. . -- !?F. $20 , 280 $28.,-550 ', - $40 , 000 $15, 000 $15,000 First Assto in Engl. Taylor, W. R. Second Asst. in Engl. Asst. in C. E. Stelzenmuller, J . G. 9 mos. Asst. to Alumnus Lovelace, J .B. 9 mos. Night W'atchman Asst. Library Scholarships Secy. Trustees Burton, R. W. Asst. in Mili~ Band 100 1,200 360 TOTALS: $16, .550 $23,665 ,BALANCE: 3,730 4,890 I' 1,500 750 000 265 250 $49,930 c. 1~ .500 750 1,200 coo 625 100 $90,140 r 1425] 860 Feedstuffs 91,.565 .500 Wate~rks 125 Waterworks * .. .. -- - ...... Appropriatibrts ,for Maintenance - t Ag. (Teaching & Experiment) 400 400 (i for Farm Management . . COO Arch. 100 t. Advertising & Rrinting 6.50 3.50 Animal Husbandry 1,100 1,100 900<: t ~ Botany ~ 400 100 , 8'00 Chemistry 3,600 100 -- --300 ' -.. . :. , , Chemistry of ~ Soils and Phys. C. Eng. 100 Commencement 300 .. --- ~:...- - -- Comer Hall 2:)0 Donnitories 1,~3 , Education 2.50 Elec. Engr. 200 ~ Entomology . ,lOa 106 850 Expense 600 300 :. Farmers' Inst. 300 Fuel 400 2,600 370 355 Grounds & Repair s 400 200 0 High School 250 Horticult. 200 900 Insurance 400 600 Infirmary 400 ... /"), , -' The Budget Appropriat i ons for Maintenance 1917-18 Endowment 2nd Morrill State ' Funds Hatch, Adams lo cal leve r To tal Feesz _ Etc . Exp . Labor (Coll. & , ':. Ag. Hall) 400 600 Library 800 400 400 . Mechanics 1, 200 Military 200 Mining Engr. 100 Music 200 Pharmacy 500 . , Physics 100 Plant Pa.tho1ogy 450 . : r Postage 150 300 ", Publications 1,500 .. " f -:1"" ... ......... ' .J Soils 100 Summer School for ~ . Fanners 400 ~ rl '"' .. ~ Summer Session • _ ~ J. - . " of College \ 2, 500 Stationery & Contingent 250- t 400 ~ , Cont ingent 225 Tr avel fo r Exp. station 300 - t t Trustees 400 Vet. Sci. 200 Water Works 200 32700 42 ~OO 1711°8). Total: 25, 633 f • Income : Endo'Wl11ent Second Morrill sta.te Bonds Feed Stuffs Oil Tax Miscellaneous Fees $20 , 280 28 , 550 40, 000 1, 200 800 12, 500 $103, 330 17 , 657 $121, 987 " r " The following changes were approved: ' Appropriations: Salaries Main tenance . $91, 000 25,633 $li6, 633 Balance (Estimated) 5, 354 (a) r ,r'1' , , Appropri ation of $LOO.OQ from Ha.tch fund was made on salary of Prof : _;pT,' • Chemistry, Head of Dept. of Chemistry, in lieu of equal amount f rom College (b) (c) (d) funds . I . Appropriation fO.r Chemis.t of Soils made for 2000. 00 Appropriation for Asst. Chemist 6f Soils made for $850. 00 ,- r An increase of $200 . 00 for fali from funds other than college. " " .f REPORT OF THE TRF...ASURER of ALABAMA POLY1~CHNIC INSTITUTE ~for THB YEAR 1916-17 • > Endowment, Morrill, state and College Funds To Endowment Fund To Morrill Fund • Re·c eip"ts : To State and College Funds To Amount of Overdraft 0 $ 20,280.00 27,900.00 97,053. 36 15,436. 29 $160 , 669. 86 Disbursements By Endo'WITlent Fund By Morrill Fund By state and College Funds $ 20,280.00 27,900. 00 1121489.86 $160,669. 86 To Cash from State ." .. EndoWll'lent Fund Receipts · - • . t Disburse~nts • By Amount Paid Salaries . o · • Morrill fund R~ceipts To Cash from State Pt· - o DisOur.sements By Amount paid Salaries state and eollege Fund Receipts To State Fund To Incidental Fees To Tuition Fees To Laboratory Fees To Surgeon Fees To Librar.y and Interest To Farm Products To Horticulture To E:xpense . . (Bonds) $ 20,280. 00 . $ 20,280. 00 $ 27, 900 .00 $ 27 , 9000 00 ,,., , $40, 000.00 4, 197. 50 2,508. 00 3, 390. 40 4,295. 00. 2,876. 25 648 .·24 359 .,50 1", 938. 30 , . state and College Fund Receipts, Continued To Animal Industry To Chemistry To Pharmacy To Veterinary To Civil ~ngine~rtng To Architecture To Feed stuff To Smith Hall To Power Plant and Lights To Summer Session To Water 1-lorks To Athletics To Laundry To Oil Tax To Amount Overdraft " - . . . . ,$3, 170. 14 262.10 152. 54 561. 45 84. 75 10. 00 BoO.oo 2,0.07 . 35 6,593.09 2,667 . 75 1,705. 13 5,010. 50 1,104. 94 12,710. 43 15,436. 50 stat~ ~d College Funds Dispur sement s . By Amo:unt paid Salaries _. - , . $47,565. 29 By Amount 'Infirmary 471. 08 By Amount Library 861. 54 By Amount Horticulture ,258. 88 By Amount Th>nnitories 4,445. 00 By Amount Expense 2,998. 46 By Amount Commencement Expense 812. 05 By Amount Printing and Advertising 3,042. 65 By Amount Animal Industry . 4,092. 77 By Amount Chemistry 4,457 . 58 By Amount $lectrica1 Engineering 309. 83 By Amount ' Mechanica1 Engineering 1,408. 75 By Amount Farmers' Institute 385. 87 By Amount Fuel ·5, 563 ~ 56 By Amount Grounds and Repairs 5,016. 21 By Amount Insurance 1, 657. 00 By Amount $ervants and Janitors 1,031. 00 By Amourit "'l-1Ui tary 567. 92 By Amount Mining Engineering . 184030 By Amount Pharmacy 852.10 By Amo~t fhysics 112. 83 By Amourit Postage 863. 55 By Amount Stationer.y 1, 021. 99 By Amount Trustees 311. 29 By Amount Veterinar.y 1, 438. 36 By Amount Summer School (Farmers) 545. 87 By Amount Watchman ~ 683. 32 By Amount Civil,. Enganeering 310. 89 By Amount Architecture 413. 72 By Amount Entomology 62. 20 By Amount Agricultural College 612. 96 By Amount Botany 657'. 35 By Amount Comer. Hall 823. 25 By Amount Music ~ , 374. 68 By Amount Broun. Hall 44. 21 r t. J. state and College Funds Di sbur sements, Continued By Amount Feed stuffs BY, Amount Smith Hall . By Amount Power Plant and Lights Bi' Amount Summer' Session By Amount Machine Design By Amount Waterworks and Sewerage By Amount Athletics By Amount High School By Amount Education Signed: Respectfully, $ 800.00 1,113.89 4,047.9? 6,292.50 618.83 809.33 5,010.50-. 473.67 864.85 $112,489.86 M. A. Glenn, Treasurer The following report was made and accepted: Waterworks Office Supt. Education' Montgomery. .... { July 2J, 1916 __ .... 1 ! meeting of the Executive Committee of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute called to consider waterworks and water for ce~lege. Mr. \4. F. F'eagin elected chairman and Mr. W. K. Terry, secretary of meeting. . ' Present: Hessrs. T. D. Samford, W. F. Feagin, Harry Herzfeld, W. K. Terry, Dr. Chas. C. Thach, and Prof. G. N. Mitcham. , , . • of' The Governor being sick and unable to attend, Dr. Chas~ C. Thach, the president, stated that he had had a survey made of various projects, conSisting of wells; creek water, etc., and comparative costs. }IT. Mitcham, engineer, made a statement of v~rious , propos~tions and desira­bilit. Y and advantages of each and recommended the drilling of three wells ,and deepen­ing of reservoirs. Upon motion, the recollmendations of Professors Mitcham, Wilmore, and Ros s to drill three wells was concurred in and the President of the college "was authorized to proceed with the drilling of the wells, provided the money could be obta:Lned wi th which to do so. -Upon motion, Mr. Feagin, ' Mr. SariLford, Dr. Thach ani Mr. Mitcham were 'appointed as a committee to go before the GoVernor and present the proposition and endeavor to get the necessary funds for the undertaking. (Signed} I, wm. F. Feagin, Tem. Chairman W. K. Terry, Seely. ' ---------- -- -- -- - - - - --- Auburn, Alabama, August 3, 1916. The committee appointed by the Board of Trustees for considering water supply met in President's office Thursday, Aug. 3 at 11:30 . ~ Mr. L. C. Dew, of Fort McPherson, Ga. , an. experienced well driller in hard rock, appeared, by invit~tiop, before t he committee and discussed the matter of drilling wells. ' After discussion, the C~>nlInittee voted to accept the propo si tion made by Mr. Dew. State of Alabama Lee County. , This agreement made and entered into this the 3rd day of April 1917, by and bettieen L. C. Dew, Contractor, hereinafter called the party of the first part and the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, hereinafter called t!le party of the second part witnesseth: , . J .... That the party of the second part has agreed and by these presents does agree for the considerations hereinafter set forth to furnish ,all l~bor, ~,chinery, tools, pipe, and other equipment and supplies, except as ~erein~ter specified, and to drill and complete to the satisfaction of the party of the second part a certain w.e~l, 8 inches diameter, at a point near the Binford Spring to be . se-lected by the party of the secong.. part. } '1 The party of the second part agrees to pay and the party of the f~st- p~t agrees to accept as full compensation for rendering the service , aqove ~en~io~ed the follmving prices, to wit: . For use of machinery ~d' equipment and fqr pers6n;~i ~eryices of t~e'- party of the first part Seven Dollars ($7.00) for each day worked until completion of said well; for services of three helpers '5.00 for each day worked • . For pipe used for casing, oil, ' dTayage, . actual cost to party of the first part. The party of the second part agrees to 9pay bills for labor, dr~age, pipe, and 9il we~ldy, or on ·demand as bills are pre sented by t~ party of . the first _ part and approved by the engineer in charge of the work, and to pay the remainder on completion of the well. The party of the secorrl . part agrees to furnish coal am water for the boiler used in the w:nk. { .. It is understood and agreed by both p~ties to this contrac~ that the ser­vice to be rerrlered under this contract shall be terminated when the well shall have been completed to tl}e sati,sfactiol! of . the engiI}eer in charge and the equip­ment shall have been dismantled ~d prepared for transportation to town, provided that the party of the second part &1aJ.l pay, for teams engaged in tranSl'orting equipment to railway station. . . , In wi tness wher~oii we qave her:ein.to set our hands this the third day of April 1917. (Signed) Witness: G. P. Edwards L. C. Dew, Party of the First Part The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Part,y of the Second Part By Chas. C. Thach , Pres. _ .1 Auburn, Ala., M,. ay 29, 1917. Dr. Cha~ . C. Thach, President Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn, Ala. Sir: , . . I have the honor to submit the following report of work &me in securing an additional supply of wa~er: ,The Mitchell Spring Project . , During the summer of 1916 surveys were made with. a view to securing a supply of water from a large spring on the land ,of G. G. Mitchell, ·Jr. , three miles . southeast of our Binford Spring- Pun~ing .Station. Ga~gings made on the flow in June. 1916 indicated that the flow. from that spring is 300 gall~ns per minute· - ­( 432000 . gallons per day); and the ,testimony .of several persons familiar wit,h the locality i~dicates that it does not decrease enough at any time to be n~ticeable . It was estimated that the cost of protecting the spring against pollution, installing pipe lines, purnps, transmissio~lin~, .etc. , would be approximately $15,000. 00, not including the cost of the necessar.y real estate. When we approached the owner to 'secure, a~ , option on th~ property, he advised that. he had already given an opt;i.on on 'it to apother .,Party; ,and on tpe same day he. advis.ed me that an outing club ha~e~ercised their option and pought the· place. The Moore's Mill Creek 'Project ,~ We then investigated ~h~ feasib~lity of secu~ing a supply of water from Moore's Mill Creek, filtering it, and pumping into our surface reservoir at Binford Spring. A good dam site was found on the old Binford Place and another on the Sinunons Place, the next place down the creek, either one being approximately one mile ·from ~e Binford Spring. After making ,surveys of the reservo,ir to be created- at each p;t.ace it was' estiJnated that th~ cost of, dam, ... pipe line, . pumps, transmission line, and filters would be approximately $15,000. 00 no~ including cost of land, the titles of which were in an unsatisfactor.y }.egal- state. Other surface water supplies were inspected and where deemed worthy of further in­vestigation surveys were made; but none of ~hese were deemed worth improvement • . r The Deep Well ~:roj act . An estima'te was made ba'sed on drilling three wells' on the campus <, con,'":' structing a. concrete surf-ace resezyoir and. :i:.pstal1;i.ng pUlUpS ,to raise t he water from the surfa'ce reservoi.r toyhe e1e~ated- tank • . We, secured inforJlJ4.~on from -a number of towns where water had been secured in adequate quantities from similar ~ geological, formations ; and, on .the strength of" ;this ~nfo:rmation we b~iieved that we would ·be able to secure as mucha-s 100 gallo~s a minute (l.44.,000 'gallons per day) from three wells. The several projects were carefully copsiq.ered by the president and an advisor,y committee composed of Professors' Ross, Wilmore, and Mitcham; and as we bel~ev~tt that ,R satisfactory supply o~ . p~re water, without filtration, . co~d be secured fI'9m the de.ep wells for ~n inij-ial cost of ~pro:rlmate1y $10,000. 00," this plan was recommended to the executive committee. of the Board of Trustees. - , A contract was let to Mr. L. C. Dew, a contractor with much experience in drilling wells in similar formations, to drill three wells 8 inches diameter . Under the contract he· was to receive $) . 50 per foot for the first well and $3.00 a foot for any additional wells which might be required, the college to furnish coal and water for his boiler and to furnish any teams required in moving his equipment. Well No. 1 On 3eptembe~ 11, 1916, the contractor began drilling Well No.1, located about IOOfeet back of the Power House, and completed it to ~ depth of 508 feet on ~Tovember 8th. Hard rock was found at a depth of 45 feet, and the drilling', thereafter was in mica-schists and gneiss of varying hardness. The well was t ested with a 3-inch eduction pipe used in connection with an air lift pump. \vith .300 feet, of eduction. pipe and an air pressure of 65 pounds per square inch 36 'gallons of::'Water were secur~d a minute. vTith a 400 foot eduction pipe and with 85 pounds air pressure 40i gallonso wer~ secure~. These yields w~re measured after the p~p had' been running, long 'enough to remain constant ~d we were satisfied that tpe water was being supplied as fact as it was being pumped out. " It was decided that it v]Quld be most 'economical to pump at the rate of 36 gallons per minute; and that rate is g~ven as the ' operating capacity of the well. ' The riext well was drilled in the:. rear of t he College Library and was begun on November 10, 1916, and drilled to a depth" of 510 feet . The geological cO'l1ditions were practically the same ' as in Well No. 1; but only e gallons 'of water a minute could be obtained, the test being made by boiling water with the sand pump, the water being held practically stationary at the' 400 foot level. This well gives so little water that for t~e present it is not considered advisable to make any attempt ,to use it in connection with the other wells. Well No . 3 Well No. 3 was paid for by' the Alumni Associa~ion, and was drilled near the Gymna:sium with a view to using it for supplying the swimming poo1 ~ The geo­logical comi tions are similar and the well WaS drilled 350 feet deep and yields 162 gallons- per minute. . Well No . 4 The supply obtained from the first three wells not being as large as hoped for, it was decided to try two wells in t~ b,asin supplying the Binford Spring. Well No-. 4 was drilled 40 feet to the north of. the spring basin and is 126 feet deep ami. yields 90 gallons a minute, the wate'r ' standing after 18 hours ' pumping 38 feet· below the surface • . This well" and Well No. ' 5 were drilled under a new contract whlchprovided for the college to pay for all labor and supplies and to allow $7.00 a day for Mr. Dew's services and rental on his' outfi t o A great many difficuLtiew were encountered in drilling this well, the time required being 37 days. Well No. ' 5 was located about 100 feet south of the Binford Spring basin, fs 145 feet deep ~d yields 95 gallons a minute. All, of the water, however, 'is received at the 125 foot level. ----------------------------- - --- - ------ Total Wat er Supply Devel oped t I estimate tha"tt in times .oJ: ~ong .dr.Quth .and ~ovT yield -.from .the Binford Spring we will have :water. av:a:Uable, ,as .follows:. . . . . .. , .. < • c From Binford Spring •••••••••.••••••••.• • • •• .•••• 6o,ooo gals. per day From Large Well, 38 ft. diame'ter, 25' fee't deep •• 26,ooo gals. per day 'From Well No. 1, on campus •••••••••••••• ��� ••••• • • 51, 000 gals. per day From Well No . ' 3, on campus ••••• • ••••• •• ••••••••• 23 , OOO gals. per day From Well No . 4, at Binford Spring ••••• ••• ••••• 130,000 gals. per day From Well No ., 5, at Binford Spring ... . .... ; •••• 137,000 gals. per day Total: 427,000 gals. per day o T~is estimate is ~ based · upbn the assumption that equipment will be provided to pump water from the deep wells and that it will b~ run' 24 hours a day if . needed. • ; Equipment for Pi.unping Deep WeRs' The . deep ~ wel:ls at ,Binford Spring can be best developed by one of two systems: ' . . "' - . r'''' 0.) By excavating a well with .concrete lining, 3 feet, in di~eter down :to level where water stands when giving capacity above stated, i . e . , about 40 fe et below surface and installing therein a centrifugal pump for each well, the pumps having a vertical shaft, being directly connected to an electric motor, and pump­ing water from the wells direct into the pumping main. 0 " (2) By ,installing an air-compressor in the pump house, with electric motor, piping Wells 4 and 5 for air lift systems and pumping with compressed air into the surface ·reserv9ir now existing. ' The latter system could be carried ' out at comparatively little eJq)ense by using temporarily the compressor now forming a part of the mechanical laboratory, and also using a small spare motor which may be available. . ') , . ' r Cost of Wells Well NQ;. l • 1,1 t Paid L. C. Dew for Drilling 'and Casing •••••• "• • • •• '. : •••• ; ••• $1, 750. 00 Miscellaneous Expense" Team's" Labor ••••••• • •••••.• • ••••••• ~ 70 . 75 Pipe, F it ting s, and Cement ........ .............. . ....... '. ~ • • 157. 58 . Total, ' not including coal i~, 918 . 33 Well No. 2 '.' t : Drilling •... . .. . .. . ....•. : ••............... . •. . ' ... .. ' .....•. $ i,,5c>o. 00 , . Well No . 3 . Drilling (Paid for by Athletic Society) • •. •• • ••• • • ••••••••• $ 1,050. 00 , Well No. 4 Drilling (Paid for by Athletic SOciet.y} ••••. . . . •• . ••••••••• $ 772. 00 Well No. 5 Drilling an d CaSl·. ng ••.....•.. ...••.•••.••.••..••••' ......••.•• $ 587. 37 • I • -, I Well No . 5, Conti nued Labor and Drayage •••••••••• •. .. •. .•••.•••••.••••• ~ ••••• .-.$ 14. 75 Pipe and Fittings ••••••• •...•.• • . •••••••••••••••••••••••• - 54. 97 $6>7. 09 • Note: None pf the abpv~ items include coal • . .. ' ,.' . .. - ..... Respectfully submitted, .(S;igned) . . . .. . G. N. -l1itcham,. Engineer . . ~ •• r-'" The following report Was made and accepted: Birmingham, Ala. , April- 5,1917. Dr. Chas·. C. Thach, President, Auburn, Ala. Dear Dr. Thach: - Complying with my promis.e to a proposition to Auburn with electric current from our lines, I beg this matter. with care and think I might -be able to on the following terms and conditions, to wit: serve · you and the Town of to say that I have gone over ge t our compariy to serve you (a) The college to sell u~ the town distribution system at its value for cash. - (b) The town to grant us our standard franchise to do an electric light and power business. (c) The town to malre a contract for ten years ·with us for its· street lights. (d) The . college to buy all its current fram us for pumping its wat~r and water for the town and for college ·uses. .' . (e) The prices at which you would get current would be on our regular " ~ terms, as shown on enclosed contract blank. In addition to the above, if the college wishes to retain part of its present steam and electric equipment for heating its buildings, for teaching steam and electrical engllleering, which it no doubt would do, then we might buy at value sucq otq~r .:AA.z:t~ .Qt: y,qur. .atea.m ,and electrical e"qi1ipment as y.ou . did not want to ~etain ~qq .a~ ,~e .m~ght~a _ab~~ .to use~ and give you a credit for the sal1J9 to be tq,ken up .:Lll .c.~r:r.t:UJ.t .aa Y.QU. .may. .need .it .till the debt is dis­charged. I thin¥\ yo~ Would have some " steam and electricaJ,. machinery lie might be able to use and 'Which you would not need. Our service would be day and night, twenty-four hours; the price for the ci ty consumers w.ou1~ be .~O .. c.eAt ,s, ;Le.s"s. A .d,is.c.ou.n.t .o.f. 10.% £or. ~.nt in ten. days from rendition of bills at the end of each month, thus giving a net rate for lighting of 9 cents, with certain quantity discounts, as per our standard lighting schedule, the same as we give everywhere else. ~ .. D • • • • • • • .. • • • c .' .. . If you care to do so , you might talk this matter over with your Trustees and if they approve I will put it before our company and think I can get the approval here on this basis • .. Trusting to he ar from you at your pleasure, I am, with best wishes, Your s truly, (Signed) R. A. Mitchell Enclosure - --- ------------ - - --- ----- ---- • ) ' ,> (:. , ).0 Birmingham, Ala. , April 11, 1917. Dr. Chas. C. Thac h~ ' Preside nt~ Alabama Polytecnru.c ' Institute, Auburn ,- Al-a; . . , , . . . . . . . , .. .. . Dear Dr. Thach, • • . .. . . .... .. tI Your letter of the 7th instant received. As much as we ~uld like to submit you the alternative proposition ~icli:you suggest, of selling you electric current in bulk for distriouti6n 'oy' tne college to Auburn, we feel that it wo~ld be utterly impossible ' £6r' us ' tQ ' ao ' so 'without ' great ' l oss; We have figured on this c arefiilly ' am L the' small ' amount· of' current.· which' would be used at Auburn, and the small amount of money such a contract would produce, would hardly pay us the fixed chargesAuburn University Board of Trustees19171910sAuburn University LibrariesEducation -- Higher Education; History -- 1875-1929: The New South EratextpdfBOT_1917.pdfAuburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archiveseng1917This image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. 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