The patron of husbandry., 1881-01-08

Committee.
On motion, received and adopted
The Committee on Law and Tu
risprudence made the following re
pert which was adopted
Your Committee on Law anc
| Jurisprudence, to whom was re
ferred that portion of the Master
address in regard to the amendmen
submitted by the National Grang,
to The Constitution admitting girl
and boys over the age of fourteen
| years into the Order have had tht
same under consideration, and move
its adoption
b. b. Boone, Chairman.
Proposed amendment to the Con
stltutions To amend Article vi. b1
striking out the word sixteen where
1t occurs in the second line of said
Article, and insert in lieu thereot
the word "fourteens"
Bro. Afford offered the followino
resolution which was adopted:
ResoI0ed, That the Secretary be
instructed to notify all the Subordi-
nate Oranges in the State of the
action OF their State Grange, in re-
gard to raising the Msster's SALARY.
and request them to respond within
sixty days.
Bro. Macarthur, Chairman on
Good of the Order, offered a report.
which was made the special orde,
tor tomorrow morning at II
o'clock,
On motion of Bro. T. L. Darden
the Grange proceeded TO install the
officers elect.
Bro. F. Mcleod. of Noxubee
acted as installing officer, assisted
by Bro. T. !. Ably, of Clairborne
The unwritten work was then
exemplified by the Worthy Master,
after which the Grange adjourned
and closed to meet Tomorrow
morning at 9 o'clock.
FOURTH DAY.
MORNING SESSION.
The Grange was called to order
at 9 o'clock, W orthy Master Darden
in The chair.
Minutes read and approved.
committee on Education made
the following report:
u 0%fhy Master aud Patro1ss.
I our Committee on Education.
referring to the report of the SDe>
cal Committee, on the condition
aud prospects, of the Agriculture
and Mechanical College, deem if
unnecessary to make any report on
the subject referred te that Com
mlttee. This Institution is a neces.
s'ty and supplies a great public
want. Its success will prove most
beneficial in its effects upon the
future prosperity Of this State. in
the moral, social, and intellectual,
elevation Of the masses. Missis
slPpi is peculiarly an agricultural
State, and her people are strictly an
agricultural people, and the benefits
OF agricultural training in her col
ieges and schools will do more to
secure their prosperity than anv
thing which is in the ability of your
committee to suggest. So that
When this system of training Has
become general and the fac ,lities
Tor the acquisition of agricultural
information are increased a spirit of |
investigation VIII be created and
iostered, to an extent that will in A
few years develop the agricultural
resources of the country, and bring
about an era of prosperity unknown
IN the past This want of trainino
OF the agricultural classes is. in the
estimation of your COMMITTEES the
great cause of the financial depres-
SION in our country.
Your Committee think that the
present system of public education
n this State is defective in several
essential particulars, o-wit
Ist, Its practical operation neces-
'ltates an unwise and uni,1st dis
,rnlnatlon in favor of the more
'ooulous districts and against those
n which the population is sparse
I'd, 1t IS defective in its curricu-
lum of studies, which should be
inform throughout the State. in
natl does not embrace the elemen.
ary principles of agricultural
cience.
Sd, 1t not only fails to answer
ne purpose of its instruction. but
S existence and operation have the
feet to retard and hinder the cause
+ education by discouraging the
of private schools
n consideration of these and other
indamental defects in our public .
,hool system, your Committee re
ommend the adoption of the fol- :
wing resolutions:
ReSoI0ed Ist, That the attention Q
the Legislature of this State. at !
5 next session, be called to the II
7cessity of making adequate pro a
SION for remedying the above ?
entloned defects in the public d
hool system of the State, and that
be requested to pass an act pro-
Ding and enforcing the study of
{ elementary principles of agri
lture, entomology, and animal and
gefa able physiology in all the pub h
schools of this State.
ed, That the appointment of in b.
teachers in the public Vi
loois IS the result of the action of ed
superintenderts. and ar
DIS to a wasteful expenditure of pc
public funds. of