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Many important experiments have been undertaken by the Station, of particular interest being those relating to soil building, the hybridization of sea-island cotton with some of the common short-staple varieties, fertilizer tests with potatoes, by which it has been shown that it is possible to raise as much as 266 bushels per acre on light, sandy soil such as that comprising the school-lands, while the average yield in the same part of Alabama is not more than 40 bushels to the acre.
From this small beginning has grown the present extensive plant at Tuskegee, comprising 2,300 acres of land, on which are located 123 buildings of all kinds devoted to the uses of the institution. "School?" he replied. About 150 acres constitute the present campus, the rest of the school-lands being devoted to farms, truck-gardens, pastures, brick-yards, etc.
Up in Western City I happen to know a lady who was a school-commissioner when he was buying school-lands from the state lands that were known to contain coal. He was paying three dollars an acre, and everybody knew they were worth three thousand." "Well," said Cotton, "if you don't buy the politicians, you wake up some fine morning and find that somebody else has bought them.
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