History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume I, Part 112

Author: Owen, Thomas McAdory, 1866-1920; Owen, Marie (Bankhead) Mrs. 1869-
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 756

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Sesame, Mrs. S. S. Heide, 1747 30th St., Mrs. D. A. Echols, 1747 30th St.

Thread of the Story, Mrs. M. M. Hughes, 1635 Parke Ave., Mrs. C. R. Walker, Terrell Boulevard.

Chrysolite Club, Mrs. Jos. L. Smith, 2406 Ave. F., Ensley, Mrs. J. S. Falkner, 2110 Parke Ave.

Enterprise-

Chautauqua Circle, Mrs. W. A. Lewis, Mrs. J. B. Bird.

Pierian, Mrs. H. C. Stephenson, Mrs. H. M. Session.

Eufaula-

Christ Child Circle, Mrs. W. H. Merritt, Mrs. J. W. Solomon.

Lanier, Mrs. John L. Cherry, Mrs. A. E. Dantzler.

Pierian, Mrs. J. E. Fay, Miss K. Bray. Symposium, Mrs. Hattie Wharton Moore, Mrs. H. H. Conner.

Evergreen-

Civic Club, Mrs. Arthur Cunningham, Mrs. Chas. R. Jones.

Orpheus, Mrs. John McPharlin, Mrs. J. P. King.

Fairfield-

Book Lovers, Mrs. C. E. Busch, Mrs. C. J. Donald.

Hypatian, Mrs. Price Clayton, Mrs. J. W. Daniels, 301 41st St., Ensley.

Fairhope-

Fifth Thursday, Mrs. Lydia J. Newcomb Comings, Mrs. M. H. Brown.

Florala-

Girl's Culture, Miss Helen White, Lock- art, Miss Winnie Shepherd.

History Club, Mrs. W. S. Harland, Mrs. W. S. Williams.

Community Club, Mrs. D. T. Williamson, Mrs. E. L. Wynn.

Florence-

Florence Discussion Club, Mrs. Prentice Blackwell, Miss Marguerite Johnson. Firenze Club, Miss Mary C. Campbell, Miss Cora Pearson.

Twentieth Century, Mrs. Everard Meade, Mrs. Jas. L. Brock.

Fort Deposit-

Wilsonian Literary, Mrs. S. H. Reid, Miss Willa Holston.

Fulton-

Twentieth Century Mothers, Mrs. B. F. Gilmer, Mrs. R. Krudop.

Geneva-

Altheneum, Mrs. N. W. Thornton, Miss Addie Carmichael.

Self Culture, Mrs. R. L. Justice, Mrs. V. P. Taylor.

Georgiana-

Mother's Club, Mrs. U. W. Black, Mrs. J. C. McGowan.

Grand Bay-

Woman's Civic, Mrs. Colin McDonald, Mrs. C. E. Elston.

Greensboro-

Study Club, Mrs. John E. Apsey, Miss E. L. Colbeck.

Greenville --

Woman's Club, Mrs. Webb Stanley, Mrs. C. C. Henderson.

Guntersville-

Literary Circle, Mrs. Gordon Zettler, Mrs. B. P. Lusk.

Hartselle

Culture Club, Mrs. J. B. Orr, Mrs. P. Pa- tillo.

Heflin-

Civic League, Mrs. Hattie Wright, Miss Ruth Adams.

Huntsville-

Culture, Mrs. Chas. G. Dillard, Mrs. W. I. Thompson.

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Study Circle, Mrs. A. W. White, Mrs. T. H. Wade.

Woman's, Mrs. Harry M. Rhett, Mrs. Robt. Searcy.

Jasper-

Mother's Culture, Mrs. J. F. Alexander, Mrs. J. M. Pennington.

Thursday Study, Mrs. R. L. Palmer, Miss Jennie Lou Palmer.

Woman's Culture, Mrs. J. H. Craig, Mrs. E. H. Mattingly.

LaFayette-

Study Club, Mrs. Jas. F. Jones, Mrs. G. Hollingsworth.

Linden-

Study Club, Mrs. W. R. Kimbrough, Mrs. W. T. Miller.

Livingston-

Primrose, Mrs. Henry L. Mellen, Mrs. T. H. Napier.

Marion --

Conversational, Miss Flora Haxwell, Miss Felix Caston, Judson College.

Inter Se, Mrs. J. B. Hatchett.

Marion Junction, Mrs. H. P. Randall, Mrs. H. M. Morrow.

Minter-

Richmond, Mrs. F. E. Lide, Miss Margaret Lee Alison.

Mobile-

Ala. Auxiliary League of American Pen- Women, Mrs. Kate Ayers Roberts, 57 S. Hamilton St., Mrs. M. E. Henry-Ruffin, Church Street.

Alpha Peta Lamda Sigma, Mrs. David S. King, Selma Street.

Association Number 3 Ala. Association of Graduate Nurses, Miss DeWitt C. Dil- lard, Mobile Infirmary.

Century Book Club, Mrs. A. A. Edey, 407 Government Street, Mrs. George Brit- ten, Montauk Ave.

Clara Schumann Club, Mrs. Jas. R. Hagan, Mrs. F. A. Crigler.

Council of Jewish Women, Mrs. M. Rosen- baum, 57 Michigan Ave., Mrs. A. Pea- son, 53 Michigan Ave.

Kindergarten Study Club, Miss Abbie Hudson, 1456 Dauphin Way, Miss E. Johnston, 59 Roper Street.

Mobile Branch Southern Association Col- lege Women, Miss Elise Brown, P. O. Box 369, Miss Grace Rubenstein, 277 St. Louis St.

Mobile Public Library Association, Mrs. J. K. Glennon, 207 St. Joseph St., Mrs. Rhett Goode.

Music Study Club, Mrs. Harry A. McPhil- lips, Miss Mattie B. Kirkbridge.

Patriotic and Civic League, Mrs. Jas. R. Hagan, 931 Dauphin Way, Mrs. W. W. McGuire.

Polyhymnia-Music Circle, Mrs. Jas. Wade Cox, 156 N. Joachim St., Mrs. W. S. Stewart.

Quorum, Mrs. Barten Noland, Mrs. W. B. Delchamps, Conte Street.

Shakespeare, Miss Alice Frasier, Anthony Street, Mrs. Erwin Craighead, St. Steph- ens Road.

Montevallo-

Studiosis, Mrs. Thomas W. Palmer, Mrs. W. N. Jones Williams.

Montgomery-

Chautauqua Circle, Mrs. R. E. Tidwell, 419 S. Hull St., Mrs. Chas. Gay, 26 Noble Ave.

College Women, Miss Lucy Durr, Moulton St.

Council of Jewish Women, Mrs. L. J. Marshuetz, 627 S. Court St., Mrs. Kal Schwartz, Sayre St.

Association of Business and Professional Women, Miss Mabelle Stough, Telephone Exchange, Miss Emma McMillan.

Graduate Nurses, Sec. Mrs. Gilchrist, 1210 S. Hull St.

Ionian, Mrs. Stafford Betty, 512 Madison Ave., Mrs. H. S. Houghton, Morningview. Magazine, Mrs. W. N. Jackson, 321 N. Union St., Mrs. W. O. Cromwell, Felder St.

No Name, Mrs. Paul Mertins, Galena Ave., Mrs. W. B. Crumpton, Sayre St.

Sesame, Miss Della Mohr, 120 Sayre St., Miss Maxine Mayer, 216 S. Hull St.

Tintagail, Mrs. Warren Tyson, 527 S. Mc- Donough St., Mrs. Frank McPherson, Madison Ave.

Treble Clef, Mrs. J. M. Starke, Houston St. Twentieth Century, Mrs. W. H. Thomas, 526 S. Perry St., Mrs. Hunter Roque- more, Felder Street.

Woman's Press and Authors, Mrs. W. A. Saffold, 442 S. McDonough St., Miss Whitman Hood, S. Hull St.

Monroeville-

Study Club, Miss M. Borroughs, Mrs. C. G. Yarbrough.

Oneonta-

Twentieth Century Self Culture, Mrs. Ollie D. Bynum, Mrs. Otto Brice.

Orrville-

Study Club, Miss Minnie Lee Moore, Mrs. M. E. Ellis.

Opelika-

Twentieth Century, Mrs. V. A. Meadows, Mrs. Arthur Thigpen.

Opp-

As You Like It, Mrs. T. E. Hubbard, Mrs. C. W. Mizell.

Civic Improvement Club, Mrs. T. P. Win- ston, Miss Minnie King.

Study Club, Mrs. T. E. Hubbard, Mrs. C. W. Mizell.

Oxford-

Europa, Miss Janie Constantine, Miss Lu- cille Anderson.

Ozark-

Civic, Mrs. T. W. Chaffin, Mrs. J. R. Brown. Matron's Study, Mrs. Groves Flowers, Mrs. J. R. Dowling.

Mothers, Mrs. M. M. Pippin, Mrs. J. R. Dowling.

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Music, Mrs. J. A. Anglin, Miss May Kolb.

Study Club, Mrs. R. M. Dowling, Mrs. M. P. Skipper.

Pollard-

Civic and School Improvement.

Red Level-

Woman's Club, Mrs. A. B. Powell, Mrs. I. T. Foshee.

Russellville-

Library Association, Mrs. J. E. Orman, Mrs. W. A. Gresham.

Safford-

Adra Pegues Chautauqua Circle.

Samson-

Study Club, Mrs. S. S. Cooper, Mrs. C. P. Atkinson.

Scottsboro-

School Improvement Club, Mrs. J. B. Tal- ley, Miss Daisy Caldwell.

Selma-

Council of Jewish Women, Mrs. I. Cad- den, Alabama & Church Sts. Miss Flos- sie Leva, Lamar Ave.

Kate M. Jarvis, Chautauqua Circle, Mrs. John E. Tate, Mrs. E. L. Crawford.

Ossian, Mrs. George Bruden, Mrs. Leon- ard McVoy.

Scribblers, Mrs. J. Y. Chapman, Mrs. Benj. H. Craig.

Study, Mrs. Law Lamar, Mrs. J. F. Hooper. West End, Miss Mary Axford, Mrs. Rich- rd Young.

Summerdale-

Woman's Club, Miss E. H. Vail, Mrs. P. H. Seibert.

Sylacauga-

Marble City Study Club, Mrs. E. S. Smith, Mrs. G. E. Crowell.

Matron's Study Club, Mrs. Joe P. Roberts. Wise and Otherwise, Mrs. J. J. McDonald, Miss M. Peace.

Talladega-

Argus, Miss Annie Brockman, Miss Eliza- bet'ı Levie.

Civic.

Inter Se, Mrs. Ridley Smith, Mrs. W. C. Dowdell.

Thomaston- Sorosis.

Thomasville-

Research, Mrs. M. G. Martin, Mrs. Agnes B. Griffin.

School Improvement, Mrs. John Philen, Mrs. J. H. Tyson.

Troy-

Civic Improvement, Mrs. A. B. Foster, Mrs. Sam Mittenthal.

Geographic Study, Miss Mattie Paul, Miss Ellen Hmil.

New Century, Mrs. Graff Hubbard, Mrs. Max Folmar.

Pandora Club, Mrs. Auxford Sartain, Miss Mary Enzer.

Nineteenth Century, Mrs. James Allred, Mrs. W. T. Adams.

Tuscaloosa-

The Quakers, Mrs. Jas. F. Alston, Mrs. H. B. Searcy.

Up-to-Date, Mrs. Katie Lou Pritchett, Mrs. Sam Clabaugh.

Tuscumbia-

City Beautiful, Mrs. E. L. Carmichael.

Tuskegee-

Sappho, Mrs. W. M. Curtis, Mrs. W. L. Cozzens.

Union Springs-

Magazine Club, Mrs. T. T. Ravenscroft, Mrs. A. J. Pittman.

Twentieth Century, Mrs. C. M. Franklin, Mrs. W. V. Turnipseed.

Uniontown-

Bishop Study Club, Mrs. Belle Scott, Mrs. C. P. Johnston.

Wilmer-

Home Demonstration, Mrs. R. L. Whatley, Mrs. A. M. Brannon ..

REFERENCES .- Federation Year Books; Mrs. Erwin Craighead of Mobile, who has compiled a manuscript history of the Federation.

FEEBLE-MINDED. See Mental Defec- tives.

FERTILIZERS. The manufacture and sale of fertilizers in Alabama are supervised and regulated by the department of agricul- ture and industries, by means of license taxes, tag taxes, and by analyses of samples obtained by its agents under specific pro- visions of law. Registration, with the com- missioner of agriculture and industries, of brands and guaranteed analyses of fertilizers, is required of manufacturers and dealers. The system of State regulation began with the act of March 8, 1871, entitled, "An Act to protect the planters of this State from imposition in the sale of fertilizers." This law was not wisely administered in every respect, and gave occasion for some popular dissatisfaction with public inspection of fer- tilizers or other merchandise. A result of this feeling was the inclusion of a clause in the constitution of 1875, prohibiting the establishment of a State office for the inspec- tion or measuring of any merchandise, manu- facture or commodity. The present consti- tution contains the same prohibitory clause. In practice, violation of the constitutional prohibition is avoided by the use of the title, "sampler," instead of inspector, to designate the agent of the regulating department.

Materials .- The materials used in fertilizers manufactured or sold in the State are nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, cyanamid, tank- age, blood, fish scrap, cottonseed meal, acid phosphate, bones, basic slag, and potash. The manufactories group themselves into two principal classes, namely, those using the wet- mixing process, and those doing only dry mixing, or manipulating of ingredients ob- tained elsewhere.

The output of the latter class consists merely of materials combined under various formulas and marketed under different brands. The system of State regulation in- volves the classification of these various brands of fertilizers into several grades. The sale of any commercial fertilizer purporting

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to be ready for use which contains less than 1.65 per cent of nitrogen and less than 14 per cent of plant food is prohibited. A method of obtaining samples so as to insure a fair and just analysis of the average quality is provided by law.

History and Statistics .- The use of artificial or commercial fertilizers did not become gen- eral in Alabama until the seventies. Before the War the necessity for the use of some- thing to maintain the productivity of soils was understood. A system for the use of fer- tilizers produced upon the farm, rotation of crops, and the raising of live stock, had been so fully worked out as to become practically a science. However, the majority of farmers in the State disregarded these principles and conducted their plantations on the basis of obtaining maximum crops even though it re- sulted in the complete exhaustion of the lands. During the early seventies the use of mixed or commercial fertilizers for the purpose of re- storing to the soil those properties which had been exhausted by improper methods of cul- tivation became common. The agricultural publications, societies, experiment stations, and other agencies for the promotion of agricultural interests, emphasized probably more than any other one thing, the necessity for an intelligent use of artificial fertilizers adapted to the various classes of soils as the best and the quickest means of preventing their complete impoverishment. From the establishment of the agricultural experiment station at Auburn, a large part of its work has consisted of experimentation with fer- tilizers and soil tests. When once the use of artificial fertilizers was started, it was rapidly extended. The value of such fertil- izers used in Alabama farms in 1879 was $1,200,956. In 30 years the value of such materials used in one year had increased more than sevenfold, amounting in 1909 to $7,630,952. An idea of the magnitude of the fertilizer industry in the State at the present time may be obtained from the statistics of manufacture at different periods during the past 10 years. In 1899 there were 17 fer- tilizer-manufacturing establishments, em- ploying 531 persons, whose wages amounted to $157,000 a year. The capitalization of these companies amounted to $1,407,000; the value of the raw materials used to $1,387,- 000; the value of their finished products to $2,068,000. In 1904 there were 19 such establishments, employing 636 persons whose aggregate wages for the year amounted to $241,000; capitalized at $3,051,000; using raw materials costing $1,606,000; and turn- ing out finished products valued at $2,341,- 000. In 1909 there were 42 such establish- ments, employing 1,473 persons, whose ag- gregate wage for the year was $697,000; capitalized at $8,507,000; using raw materials costing $4,264,000; and turning out finished products worth $6,423,000. In 1914 there were 135 fertilizer establishments in the State. Of these, 13 were completely equipped manufacturing plants, 7 complete except for acid chambers, and 15 were dry-mixing plants merely. During the season of 1914

there were 1,884 different brands of fertil- izers registered with the commissioner of agriculture and industries, 745 of them reg- istered by the seven largest fertilizer com- panies, and 1,139 by other concerns. During the same season the total production of com- mercial fertilizers by factories and mixing plants in the State was 605,000 tons. Of this the seven largest concerns produced 262,200 tons and the others 343,400 tons.

Conditions in Alabama with respect to the manufacture and consumption of commercial fertilizers have been much the same as else- where in the country, except perhaps for the fact that the number of brands not being regulated, some abuses have grown up. Com- bination for the control of prices has been alleged, and many of these manipulations of prices and market conditions have been made possible by the ability of a manufacturer to multiply to an unlimited extent the number of brands under which the same product may be sold. The fertilizer industry of the entire country was investigated, in accordance with Senate resolution 487, Sixty-second Congress, third session, in 1914 and 1915. It was first undertaken by the Bureau of Corporations and transferred to the Federal Trade Com- mission on its organization on March 15, 1915. Full report of the findings was made August 19, 1916.

See Agriculture; Agriculture and Indus- tries, Department of; Chemist, the State; In- spection of Merchandise; Manufactures and Manufacturing.

REFERENCES .- Constitution, 1875, Ibid, 1901; Codes, 1876, 1886, 1896, and 1907, secs. 22, 24-48; Acts, 1870-71, pp. 68-70; General Acts, 1903, pp. 65, 78-86; 1907, pp. 250, 273, 744-751; 1911, pp. 619,620; 1915, pp. 503, 646-647; Publications of Department of Agriculture and Industries; Bulletins of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Agricultural Experiment Station; U. S. Bureau of the Census, Reports, 1880-1910 inclusive; Ibid, Abstract of the 13th Census, with supple- ment for Alabama (1913); Federal Trade Com- mission, Report on the fertilizer industry (1916), passim. The Proceedings of annual conventions of the National Fertilizer Associa- tion, 1893-1916, inclusive, contain much in- formation regarding the industry, statistical and general. W. H. Bowker, Relation of the Fertilizer Industry, to the Agricultural and In- dustrial Development of the Country, Address before National Fertilizer Association, July 13, 1915, p. 20; and Plant Food, its Sources, Con- servation, Preparation and Application (1909, p. 52).

FIELD CROPS. See Crops.

FIELD TRIALS CLUB, THE CONTI- NENTAL. Established for the purpose of im- proving pointers and setters, by holding field trials to test their field qualities, and thereby increase the interest in sport with dog and gun. The government and management of the club are entrusted to a board of gov- ernors composed of the president, two vice- presidents, secretary-treasurer, and an ex-

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ecutive committee of eight members. Annual meetings of the club are held at a time and place designated by the president, thirty days' notice being given to members by the Secre- tary. Other meetings may be called by the president or upon the written request of five members. Annual dues $10.00, no initiation dues. Management of the meetings of the annual field trials are entrusted to the board of governors, who have power to interpret the rules. Judges are selected by the officers of the club, or by a committee appointed by them, the names of the judges to be publicly announced as soon as possible after their selection. The club has a constitution, by- laws, and regulations, for the information of entrants in the trials. F. L. Hadknies, Tot- tenville, N. Y., is Secretary. Annual field trials have been held by the club for twenty- six years, included in North Carolina, Geor- gia, North Dakota and Alabama. Hayneville was the location for two trials, on the pre- serve of Louis Lee Laggin. The trial of 1919 was held at Calhoun on the Bell plantation.

REFERENCE .- Letter from F. L. Hadkin, Secre- tary, Tottenville, Staten Island, N. Y., in De- partment of Archives and History.

FIFE'S VILLAGE. A small Indian town in Talladega County, about 10 miles east of Talladega, on the east side of Chehawhaw Creek.

REFERENCES .- Bureau of American Ethnology, Eighteenth Annual report (1899), pt. 2, Map 1.

FIFTH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. (Wetumpka.) One of the nine agricultural schools and experiment stations organized in the several Congressional dis- tricts of the State. The purpose of this system of schools is free scientific instruc- tion in agriculture and allied branches, as indicated hy section 67 of the Code of 1907:

"Scientific and practical agriculture shall be taught at all the agricultural schools, and all male pupils over ten years of age who re- ceive free tuition therein shall be required to take the course in scientific agriculture and horticulture, and all other pupils over the age of ten years receiving free tuition shall be required to take the course in flori- culture and horticulture."

The courses of study, work in the experi- ment station, and administration generally are directed by a central board of control, consisting of the governor, commissioner of agriculture and industries, superintendent of education, and two bona fide electors of the district, the latter appointed by the governor with four year terms of office.

The school is located on the Coosa River at the head of navigation. The main build- ing stands on an eminence about one-half mile from the court house, in the residence section of the town. The campus includes 5 acres, and the experiment station 80 acres, about one-quarter of a mile from the school. The regular academic work includes a four year high school course, based on the seven elementary grades. In addition there is a

department of home economics, including domestic science and domestic art, the de- partments of manual training, expression, physical culture, instrumental music and voice culture. Stenography and other com- mercial studies are offered. Laboratory fa- cilities, both chemical and physical, are pro- vided, and all necessary chemicals for quali- tative analyses are supplied. The library is made up of a well selected collection of his- tory, biography, literature, science, fiction and reference. Literary societies are success- fully maintained. Athletics, including foot- ball, baseball, basketball and tennis, are encouraged, and a large gymnasium and ex- tensive athletic park are provided, with com- petent coaches. A number of medals for proficiency in scholarship, attendance, class standing, declamation, record in agriculture, advancement in art, athletic record, at- tendance and deportment are annually awarded. The alumni-ae association holds annual meetings during the commencements, and the catalogues contain lists of its mem- bers.

History .- The school at Wetumpka in Elmore County, was established under an amendment, adopted December 9, 1896, to the original act of February 18, 1895, locat- ing "additional branch agricultural experi- ment stations and agricultural schools." The first act contained a proviso locating the school for the fifth district at Hayneville, Lowndes County. Evidently its terms as to buildings and site were not met by that place, and the next session of the legislature adopted the amendatory act cited. It provides that the school for the fifth district shall be lo- cated at Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, but declares further that

"When located at Alexander City the peo- ple of that city shall make title to the State for the school building and lot on which it is located and eighty acres of land adjacent, or as nearly adjacent as may he procured, suitable for said station, to be approved by commissioner of agriculture, and in addi- tion thereto shall pay to the treasurer of the board of control of said station and school two thousand dollars on demand in money, to be used as provided in this act in erecting buildings and in the equipment and improvement of the school and station, pro- vided further than in the event any other place in the fifth congressional district shall within thirty days from the passage of this act tender to the governor, superintendent of education and the commissioner of agri- culture a donation of property and money equal to the amount stipulated in this act as the donation of Alexander City, then the governor, superintendent of educa- tion and commissioner of agriculture shall consider such tender of donations and shall locate said fifth congressional dis- trict agricultural experiment station and agricultural school at such place in the fifth congressional district as in their judgment offers the greatest inducement as to value of donations and desirability of location."

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The people of Wetumpka met the condi- tions and the commission located the school at that point. A board of control was pro- vided, including the commissioner of agri- culture, the director of the experiment sta- tion at Auburn, and "five progressive farm- ers, actually engaged" in farming, three of whom were required to reside within ten miles of the school. General power was con- ferred to elect a director, a principal and teachers.

The legislature, January 30, 1897, in or- der to secure uniformity of support, admin- istration and ideals, provided a new system of regulation of the several agricultural schools. The governor, within 30 days was required to appoint new boards of five mem- bers each, "a majority of whom shall be men whose principal business is farming," and of which the superintendent of educa- tion and the commissioner of agriculture were to be ex-officio members. The president or principal was made director of the experi- ment station. Among other things the act contained section 67 of the Code of 1907, before quoted. In 1903, September 30, the system was still further reorganized by pro- viding for a new board of three ex-officio and two appointive members, as at present constituted.

Support .- The act of establishment, Febru- ary 21, 1895, provided annually, for equip- ment and improvements, "an equal amount to the sum appropriated to each of the other agricultural schools in the State," but lim- ited the expenditure for lands and the erec- tion of buildings to $1,000 from the appropriation. At the same session the tag tax law was amended, February 4, 1895, so as to appropriate 25 cents a ton, or one-half of such tax, for equal division among the several branch agricultural experiment sta- tions and schools. Under act of January 30, 1897, the annual appropriation for main- tenance was fixed at $2,500, but not less than $500, was to "be used in maintaining, cultivating and improving" the farm, and "making agricultural experiments thereon." The appropriation was increased to $4,500, March 2, 1907, of which $750 was to be used in the work of the experiment station. In 1911, April 22, the legislature further in- creased the annual appropriation to $7,500, but of this amount $3,000 was available only on the approval of the governor, in whole or in part from time to time as the condition of the treasury might warrant. This sum, however, the governor has never released.

The main building was destroyed by fire January 5, 1906. A new building was erected, for which the legislature, March 2, 1907, made an appropriation of $10,000. For the erection of a dormitory on April 20, 1911, an appropriation of $7,500 was made, pay- ment subject to the approval of the governor in whole or in part as the condition of the treasury might warrant. This amount has never been released.

On September 30, 1918, its report to the State superintendent of education showed

buildings and site valued at $42,500; equip- ment $2,630; 10 teachers; 361 pupils; 1,500 volumes in library, valued at $1,000; and State appropriation $4,500.

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History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume I, Part 112

Author: Owen, Thomas McAdory, 1866-1920; Owen, Marie (Bankhead) Mrs. 1869- Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 756

Author: Owen, Thomas McAdory, 1866-1920; Owen, Marie (Bankhead) Mrs. 1869-
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 756