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i H CANNING PRECAUTIONS Cleanliness Is one of the Important IB secrets to success in canning. Be absolutely clean In every operation and ^B keep all the surroundings the same. Carefully sterilize with boiling water B every utensil before it is used. Also If the jars, rubbers, and cans. In buying glass Jars, secure the best. I One of the most satisfactory types of I jars is the "Lightning Patent" with a I | glass top held in place by a simple i I wire spring. I Use the best grado of tin cans even Jhough they cost a little more than the cheaper grades. With glass Jars always uso new rubbers. I I'k^m I THE MILITARY Award of Set ' Free T The State Board of Chari with investigating the financia four-year scholarships and fr findings to the Board of Trust* passes finally upon the mat information gathered by the ? decision of the Trustees may Education. The College will furnish scholarships and free tuition. E OA IRY^UI| I \ ' i-'.Vvitf 5*S?SH*8EB 11 IV 'I Religious i - Fruit for canning should be ripe but firm. Do not use overripe specimens. Vegetables for canning should be young and tender. Fruit and vegetables are better for canning if gathered in the early morning and kept in a cool place until ready for use. Fruits and vegetables must be thoroughly cleaned before being put in Inrs nr nnnu Do not attempt to can decayed or dirty fruits or vegetables. Write the Horticultural Division. Clemson College, S. C., for circular So. 27, "Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables," also "Home Gardening" bulletin. . ' * " r-sn'rl ? STAFF lolarships and uition ties and Corrections is chargc< il standing of all applicants fo ee tuition, and reporting thei ees of the College. This Boar< ter, accepting as correct tin State Board. Appeal from tin be made to the State Board o "blanks to all applicants foi ?M?mihm?Mrnwi am ??? 'JxUBt&sESS3r&SBtFt% _j v SMUnHHI BSHSff > <23$ 1 I HFlUENCESl> THE STUDENT BODY Every year the number of applications to enter Clemson College exceeds the capacity of the institution. Early in August it is necessary to begin a "waiting list," as all available rooms in the barracks have been taken. This session the enrollment (not considering the 124 enrolled in the summer school) was 851. The following data on 843 students enrolled in College this session will bo of interest: (1) Average age, 19 years, 5 months. (2) Average height, 5 feet, 9 inches. i3) Types?blondes 391, brunettes 455, or 53.7 per cent. (4) Living in country and small towns, 60o ot 71 per cent. (5) Living in cities and towns over 2,500 popoulation, 246 or 29 por cent. (6) Born in the country, 553 or 65.4 per cent. (7) Averaging 14 years on the farm, 610 or 7 2 per cent. (8) Sons of parents who are ribw, or have been, farmers, 706 or 83.5 per cent. (9) 24 5 students now in College hu'e had 388 brothers to attend, of whom 121 graduated. The distribution of students by courses is as follows: Agricultural courses... 473 or 56.1 per cent. 1 In all other courses 370 or 43.9 per cent. * v ' . ' .*' / ; \ ' ' ' '?" * V r < BAKEBALL GAME ON RIGl Y. M. C. A. Building, Agricultural Building, Textile Building, Administrati BE A FARMER 1 HOG CHOLERA PATRIOT Every Farmer Should Know How to .. , . . . Inject Cholera Scrum. With the packing house assured for the State this fall all farmers should ^ Write to Dr. R. O. I'oeley, Clemson recruit at once in the army of meat '-" ese. ? t;., ana request a free bul-1 producers which will put South Caro- n on ^?S cholera symptoms, and j* Una on a self supporting basis, as P08* yourself. When your hogs show well as help feed the millions of peo- thes6 symptoms phono or wire your pie who nre now dependent on the c?unty demonstration agent at once I United States for food supplies. This for ald' unless you have already had p is the time for the farmer to exort hls services, in which case you ought himself more than ever to grow to know how to proceed without his ' plenty of food stuffs on the farm. helP- 11 ^ Impossible for him to see 1 The possibilities of a good wheat and every man's hogs, so it will be nccesoat crop are very poor, and this Sl*ry for you to learn to treat them makes it all the more necessary to yourself after one demonstration. [' prepare to grow more feed stuffs and Prevention is worth more than to grow more meat than ever before. cure" is an old adage which applies He a farmer patriot. especially to this malady. TH E ^ Clemson's Finances The public has a right to the fullest information in regard .o the fiscal affairs of a State institution. It would not be possible to make a fuller or more detailed report than does Clemson College. Not only docs the Treasurer's annual report to tho Legislature contain the usunl summary of receipts and expenditures. but this report of 150 pages lists each individual bill paid out of College funds is shown. Since the support of an educational institution is of interest and importance to its patrons, the following brief summary for the last liseal year shouid be of interest: Resources. Balance brought forward from June 30. *1G $ 9,701.04 Income Privilege Fertilizer Tax $171,018.52 Morrill & Nelson Fund (U. S.) 25,000.00 Interest on Lanscript 5,751.00 Interest on Clemoen Bequest 3,512.30 Tuition from Cadets 4,670.00 State Loan 62,400.00 Sales, Interests, Rents, Refunds.... 7,634.96 $279,9S9.S4 $289,690.88 Repaid on Loan 21,511.44 Total available resources, '15-'16 $268,179.44 The above total represents what was available for the use of the College, including its local development and its Public Service. The South Carolina Experiment Station receives $30,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture for conducting agricultural research, but none of this money ran be used be the College. Likewise the funds from the Federal Smith-Lever Act can be used only for demonstration and extension work, under Federal supervision. The money paid in by students for board, laundry, heat, light, and water, medical attention and incidentals, iB held in trust by the College for the use of tho cadets, and is not used for College expenses. The following is a condensed summary of expenditures: Expenditures. 1. For operating expenses of College (Salaries ot teachers, laborers, insurance, coal, shop and laboratory maerials, etc.) $145,697.24 2. For buildings, permanent improvements and additions to shop and laboratory equipment. 5,309.65 3. For public work (fertilizer inspection and analysis, veterinary inspection, scholarships, branch stations, etc., etc.) 85,720.15 Total $236,727.04 Balance carried forward July 1, 1916 31,452.40 Total $268,179.44 Unpaid balance on loan carried forward $ 40,888.56 v . . V . # ' k> * * *yii^ZlBffP*z j if^fcaAiBEEZ*!5y>iy?^BMMc*3B^PWB^C?IIBwMB^^K^K SS' FIEIjD Ion ItuilriiiiR and Borrneks No. 1 in the Background. t PEN PICTURE OF send out yearly over 35,000 CLEMSON COLLEGE letters and over 4 3 5,000 other pieces of mail matter, Works for Welfare in Many mosi ot which gives agrieuWays. tural information. In addition to the parent Picture a country estate of station, the college maintains 1,600 acres, with stately two branch experiments stabuildings placed at elevated tions?one near Summervllle points to form a great irreg- and the other at Florence, ular circle of hnlf a mile in one more is to be situated diameter. Inclose in this jn the sand hill sections of circle a beautiful grove of the state. Just as soon as native oaks, threaded by funds will permit, will cornsmooth drive-walks. Turn picte a Sy8tem representing to the north and for a back- the principal soil types of tho ground outline against the state. sky at a distance of 20 miles, range after range of moun- CANNING tains, the homo of the Highlands, of Caesar's Head, Every farmer should have Whitesldos and other lofty a small canning outllt for peaks of the Itlue Ridge, use in preserving fruit and Tllink Of these n>niintii in? us veiretn files fur u. inter Ae in summer clothed with ver- abundance of canned produre, standing out black ducts of this sort adds coruagainst the horizon, and in fort and health to the family, winter often white with and often there is oiiourIi snow. Take for the southern surplus t<? give a nice little boundary a river of Indian income. It is seldom that lincaRe and follow in its canned fruits xind vegetables sweeping crookedness the of tine quality fail to coinswift and turbulent Seneca niand xi good price. With a as it twists this way and that good fall garden one does not to mark the confines of the so much feel the need of estate. And to this setting canned vegetables, but thero add broad expanses of river are xi great mxiny of the tenbottom lands green with der sorts that will not grow corn, steep hillsides sinuous at this season nnd must bo with level grassy terraces preserved in cans. Think xilso and cool pxistures with of the number of fruits that winding brooks and graceful may bo canned. Kven where shade trees and you have a one has neglected to have ;i picture of Clcmson College, good orchard there are in not colored to suit the can- most localities an abundance vas of an artist, but as seen of blackberries, blue berries, every year by nearly a thou- huckleberries, grapes and sand young South Carolin- cherries growing wild. In ians, who seek, amid these case enough vegetables have surroundings, an education not yet been planted to furthat will prepare them for nisli a surplus to can, it is a solf-respectlng, self-support- good time now to mako up ing citizenship. the deficiency. Tomatoes, A Purge I'lant. ..nap beans, lima beans. The college tract contains sweet potxitoes, nnd other ...v.. j.vvu m-i t.i. >/n me vuKViiiuit'H may yi'i u? pianiproperty there nre 23 prin- ed for canning during the cipal public buildings, 70 late summer. Any one indwellings and 64 minor tcrestcd in canning should buildings. The college has write the Horticultural Diin its employ 116 teachers vision of Clemson College for and officers. Its inventoried Circular No. 27, "Home Canproperty Is $1,327,728.57. nlng of Fruits and VegetaThe olllcers of tlio college hies."