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CLEMSON’S HANDSOME
Y. M. C. A. BUILDING
Just north of the textile school
at Clemson College there is reared
a magnificent structure that is
an important factor in the social
and religious life of the student
body at the State’s agricultural
and mechanical college. It is the
T building of the loung Men’s
Christian Association, one of the
first association structures in the
„ South, and one of the finest col
lege association buildings in the
country. It cost $78,000 and was
made possible by the generosity
of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, who
donated $50,000 on condition that
balance sliuulil tJB fflrttVtfmT
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The entire building is to be
made as attractive as possible for
the cadets, giving them a home
like place where they can spend
their unemployed time pleasantly
and profitably.
ing. The College trustees appro
priated $15,000, which left $18,-
000 still to be raised. This sum
was made up by the loyalty and
contributions from cadets, fac
ulty, alumni and former students.
Some of the recreational fea
tures of the building are an up-
to-date swimming pool, bowlin
alleys, games room, reading am
lounging rooms, cafe and audi
torium for lectures, concerts, mov
ing pictures, etc. Ample provis
ion is made in the building for
the spiritual work of the associa
tion.
CLEMSON’S PUBLIC SERVICE
During last fiscal year, more
than half of the fertilizer tax
was returned directly to the farm
ers in the form of public service.
This service included the demon
stration and extension work, the
maintenance of two branch exper
iment stations, fertilizer inspec
tion and analysis, scholarships,
veterinary inspection, and control
of contagious diseases, co-o
live expenmenfar work wi
farmers, protection against plant
diseases and insfiet pests,^designs
of rural school buildings, etc.
These lines of work cost last fiscal
year $81,323.99.
^ny farmer in need of techni
cal expert advice on agricultural
subjects should not hesitate to
write to the College for informa
tion. The inquiry will be re
ferred to the proper expert and a
prompt answer will be received.
The College officials write nearly
30,000 such letters annually, and
send out nearly a half million
pieces of printed matter.
THE STUDENT BODY.
Every year the number of applica
tions to enter Clemson College ex
ceeds the capacity of the Institution.
Early In August It la necessary to be
gin a "waiting list," as all available
rooms In the barracks have been
taken.
This session the enrollment (not
considering the 198 enrolled in the
Summer school) was 812.
The following data on 785 of these
n^en will be of interest: -
Average age, 19.3 years.
Average height in shoes; 6 ft. 9.1 In.
Types: Blondes 350
Brunettes 435
Living In the country and In
small towns and villages.. .70.9X
Living in cities of over 2,500
Inhabitants 29.IX
Born In country ...64.OX
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who
Parents
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have lived on the farm. ... 69.3 X
its are or have been farm'
Parents are now engaged In
farmmg 61.SX
Two hundred and twynty students
now In College have .had 313 broth
ers, of whom 121 graduated, to at
tend Clemsoh.
theupations of Stadcnt’s Parents:
Farmers. 405;\ merchants, 75: clerk^
22; manufacturers, 18; physicians.
17; postal service, 16; teachers, 14;
ministers, 11; railway service, 11;
lawyers. 9; bankers, 9; bookkeepers.
9; contractors, 7; Insurance agents, 7;
dentists, 4; miscellaneous, 152.
These figures HP 1 ‘k elbquently of
the fulfillment of ^the primary pur
pose of the College->-to serve the agrl
cultural and Industrial classes of our
people. \
A PEN PICTURE OF
CLEMSON COLLEGE
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OORN CLUB BOYS IN THE SUMMER SHORT COURSE.
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l EXTENSION AND DEMONSTRA
TION WORK.
The Demonstration and Extension
Work Is under the direction of Mr.
W. W. Long, who Is jointly appointed
by the College and the United States
Department of Agriculture.
The funds available for this work
last fiscal year were as follows:
From Clemson College... $20,290.48
From Smith-Lever Act
(United States) 10,000.00
From U. S. Dept of Agri
culture 34,000.00
From counties 2,379.36
From Individuals.. .•.Try. 284.16
From organizations 6,716.65
Total $72,670.55
In the Demonstration work there
are three district agents and 46
county agents.
Out of the 46 county agents, 28 are
Clemson graduates and several are
from other Southern colleges. -
In the extension service there are
six experts furnished by the United
States Department of Agriculture and
eleven college offleera
SUMMER SHORT COURSES
A Pleasant and Profitable Vaca
tion.
Clemson College is offering a
four weeks’ course in agriculture
and cotton grading. The course
begins July 31st and ends Au
gust 26th. ' • ' *
The school will be arranged so
that one can get what he most
needs. During the first week the
subject of dairying will be taught,
the second week animal husban
dry, and the third horticulture.
For the last week of the course
agronomy, which intludes field
crops, soils, fertilizers, etc., will
be the chief subject.
A special course for teachers
of agriculture has been arranged.
Four weeks’ instruction will also
be given the winners in the Boys’
Corn Club work of the State.
A ten-day cofirse for ministers
interested in rural affairs—Au
gust 10th to August 18th, inclu
sive—^has been specially designed
for them.
The entire equipment of the ag
ricultural department will be at
the disposal of those taking the
four weeks’ courses. .The farm,
dairy, dairy barn and the labora
tories will be open for use in in
struction..:^. r-j —:
Popular lectures will be given
the faculty or other lecturer
prominent in State or national
affairs.
The college library, with its
30,000 books and many popular
magazines, will be open during
the whole four weeks. .
otlTeT' Toffy "peaks of the’ Blue
Ridge. Think of these mountains
as in summer clothed with ver
dure, standing out black against
the horizon, and in winter often
white with snow. Take for the
southern boundarv a river of In
dian lineage and follow in its
sweeping crookedness the swift
and turbulent Seneca as it twists
this way and that to mark the
confines of the estate. And to this
setting add broad expanses of
river bottom lands green with
corn, steep hillsides sinuous with
level grassy terraces and cool pas
tures with winding brooks and
graceful shade trees and you have
a picture of Clemson College, not
colored to suit the canvas of an
artist, but as seen every year bv
nearly a thousand voting South
Carolinians, who seek, ajnid these
surroundings, an education that
will prepare them for self-respect
ing, self-supporting citizenship.
A Large Plant
The college tract contains over
1,500 acres. On the property
there are 23 principal public
buildings, 70 dwellings and 64
minor buildings. Tne college
has in its employ 116 teachers
and officers. Its inventoried prop
erty' is $1,327,728.57. The of
ficers of the college sertd out year
ly ovit 35,000 letters and over
435,000 'pther pieces of mail mat
ter, most of- which give agricut-"
tural information.
In addition to the parent sta
tion, the college maintains two
branch experiment stations—one
near Summerville and the other
at Florence. Ohe more to be sit
uated in the sand hill sections of
the State, just as\soon as funds
will permit, will complete a sys
tem representing th^ principal
soil types of the Stat
Works for Welfare
Ways.
Picture a county estate of 1,500
acres, with stately buildings
placed at elevated points to form
a great irregular circle of half a
mile in diameter. Inclose in this
circle a beautiful grove of native
oaks, threaded by smooth drive-
walks. Turn to the north and for
a background outline against the
sky at a distance of 20 miles,
range after range of mountains,
(he home of the Highlands, of It has ^ the practice of the
uf .irluirwT/rttrustees not to recommend any
' Clemson’s Finances
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-TaA^pubUAiuM^ A^aat to
aftalra of a State. Inafitutlon. ''' * .
It would not be possible to make a fuller or more detailed report than
does tllemson College.
Not only does the Treasurer’s, annual report to the Legislature contain
the’usual summary'or'recelpU and expenditures, but this report of 169 pages
lists each Individual bill paid out of College funds Is shown.
Since the support of an educational Institution is of Interest and Import
ance to Its patrons, the following brief summary for fhe last fiscal year, taken
from the Treasurer’#.report to the Legislature, should be of Interest:
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Income.
Privilege tax on fertilizers. .$166,$69.76’
Morrill & Nelson funds (U. 8.) 25,000.00
Interest on landscrlpt fund (U. S.) 6,754.00
Tuition from cadets 6,233.00
Interest on Clemson bequest.'. 8,612.36
Sales, interest, rents, etc 9.998.J2
Total $206,357.84
Reserve fund 67,192.84
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Total resources 1914-16 $272,660.68
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 coi^uctlng agricultural research, but none of this money can
be used by the College. Likewise the $10,000 from the Federal Smith-Lever
Act can be used only for demonstration and extension work, under Federal
supervision.
The money paid In by students fo^ board,'. laundry, heat, light, and
water, medical attention and Incidentals, is held In trust by the College for the
use of the cadets, and Is not used for College expenses.
The following is a condensed summary of expenditures:
Expenditures.
1. For operating expenses of Cpllege (salaries of teachers, labor
ers, Insurance, coair shop and laboratory materials, etc.)... .$148,836.82
2. For buildings, permanent improvements and additions to shop
and laboratory equipment • • 37,688.83
3. For public work (fertilizer inspection and analysis, veterinary
Inspection, scholarships, branclf stations, etc., etc.) 81,823.99
Total...7T W $262,849.64
The decrease In the fertilizer tax to $166,869.76 would have necessitated
cutting down the amount Invested in public service, but for the balance of
$67,192.84 which had been husbanded from previous years. During the pres
ent fiscal year the College is continuing the public service by borrowing
$62,400 to supplement the fertilizer tax which this year is not likely mueh to
exceed last year.
AWARD OF SCHOLARSHIPS
AND FREE TUITION
young man for the award of a
scholarship unless his parents
signed an affidavit that they were
unable to nay for their son’s edu
cation, and the tax returns show
ed an unencumbered property
valuation bore out the affidavit.
Free tuition was granted only
on the certificate ot the County
IWiffftOTf, based upon an affidavit
of the parent that he was unable
to pay it “ 7
This year th$ State Board of
Charities and Corrections is
charged by law with investigat
ing the financial standing of all
applicants for scholarships and
free tuition, and reporting their
findings to the board of trustees.
WHEAT FIELD COLLEGE FARM.
RESULTS OF TOP-DRESSING
Best Times to Apply Nitrate of
Soda to Corn, Cotton and Grain.
Results obtained at the South
Carolina * Experiment Station
show that a top-dressing with ni
trate of soda gives good results on
cotton, corn and small grains. The
increase is most marked during a
wet year, because this nitrogen is
already in an immediately avail
able uirm, while the rotting of
the organic sources does not pro
ceed as rapidly as usual on ac
count of the excess of moisture in
the soil. The amount to apply per
acres varies with the fertility of
the soil and the previous fertiliza
tion, but we would suggest from
50 pounds per acre on poor land
up, according to the fertility of
the soil.
; Early applications are coming
into favor. We recommend that
the soda be applied to corn when
it is between knee and waist high,
to cotton just as the shapes begin
to form, and to Srtiall grain in
March. Care should be taken not
to sow nitrate of soda on wet
plants, because it is likely to scald
them. It is best to apply it just
after a rain, when the moisture
had dried off the leaves of the
plants, then cultivate with a
mulch forming implement as sooiT
as the ground is dry enough to
plow. 4
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