”SEVENTH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL

Powder Springs, Ga., May 2, 1910. Hon. Jere M. Pound,

State School Commissioner,
Atlanta, Ga.

My Dear Sir:—It is my pleasure to make to you this report of the 7th District Agricultural School.

This year has been decidedly the best in the history of the school in every respect.

We have enrolled this year 100 students and nearly every county of the 13 in our district has been represented by good, honest students, a very much better class of boys than formerly. There are four classes in school now and this year will be turned out our first graduates. Their names are: Messrs Jeff Stewart, J. Willis Arnold, Otis Kemp, Gus Ware, Misses Zelma Babb, Mittie Lindley.

The literary work of the year has been very satisfactory.

As to material improvements, as stated formerly in my reports we have builded with student labor, without the aid of a mechanic save in our own numbers, a dormitory made according to the architects plans for all the boys’ dormitories in the State. In this building there are 200,000 brick, all handled by the boys, and there are 50 rooms plastered and finished for occupancy by students in September. The boys took a pride in this work, feeling that they were building for time and not merely to get in their time. We all rejoice that we have now room to grow in.

In addition to this work we have now planted 20 acres of corn, 7 in cotton and have about 10 in spring oats. The growers of 25 varieties of cotton through the effort of the Agricultural College at Athens, have sent us one pound of their best cotton seed for a variety test. These seed will be planted and cultivated alike and then results will be tested in the fall. The yield of seed cotton, also lint, length of fiber, strength of fiber, all will be carefully noted and will be compared with the results of a similar test made at the University and all the Agricultural schools. We look to this test for much useful information. There are quite a number of long staple varieties, also some genuine Sea Island cotton, which will be something of interest to all farmers near these schools. As to our future plans there will be constructed this fall a modern barn, the work to be done by student labor, and some additional work on a water system for the school.