The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-12-15

hat it should be applied for thaC
nurpose and it has not been done.
That certificate of Indebtedness Z
the university now lying IN our
State treasury for $125,OOo, and on
which our people are paying SOW
interest annually to the University,
must be transferred and be applled
to the establishment OF Industrial
education. The taxpayers OF Nortn
Carolina have paid the interest 10
the University on their W money
(Which was taken from them In vloo
Iation of law and in disregard OF
their rights for eleven years
amounting to $86,25O up to the LIST
of July last, and they feel that it is
Just and right that this money
should be applied as was directed
by Congress and as we agreed to 40
when we accepted it. For the sake
of the University we should deeply
regret to see any marked opposition
to such a reasonable demand. If a
contest should arise there a be no
doubt as to the result, for the peo-
ple of North Carolina intend to have
that fund applied as it has been in
ohter States and according to law.
intelligent farmer il Arson
county writes that eIas three
bright, healthy chNdreH He wants
to educate them but\M is not able
to send them to o9tNVolleges. He
wants to give them/indVstrial, prac-
tical training, such as isl taught in
the agricultural colleges Of Georgia
and Mississippi He desifes us to
give him all the information as to
those schools &C., the price OF tuition
the course of study &c. Write to
Gen. S. Dice, Starkville, Miss. He
is president Of the State Agricultu-
raj college at that place and is a
learned and accommodating gentle
man and l may add is doing more for
industrial progress than any man in
the South. He has $50 Mississippi
boys in the College and they are
made to study theory and principles
in the school room and then are
required to go out in the farm, the
garden, the stock yard, tire
the machine shops, the work shops,
the kitchen, the designing room and
apply these theories and principles.
When one of these boys is fitted to
leave school he is also fully qualified
to go Immediately to work, not as
an apprentice who has to learn his
trade but as one thoroughly
to take charge and go ahead.
If the farmers of our State want a
similar institution they have only to
take charge of the money that was
donated to them by Congress for
that purpose. The farmers Of Miss
issippi had this to do. 1t is $685.
600 and our people pay annually the
interest amounting to $500. This
now goes to the State University
and has been doing 50 since the LIST
ofJanuary 1875, amounting now to
$86,25O, which they have paid. This
money should be applied to indus
trial education.
| was standing in a cotton yard
the other day and saw a farmer de-
liver two bales of cotton as a pay
on his chattel mortgage. He was
allowed eight and a half cents per
pound for it. 1t took most probably
four Of land to produce it. 1t
cost the farmer most probably twelve
cents per pound. How long before
the final crash will come? Our farm
ers say to the north: Produce our
meat and bread, u hay, our fertil-
izers, every thing we need that can
be transported, put your own price
upon them and we will raise one
crop to pay for it all and you may
fix the price on that crop. How
long before the final crash will
come?
[ saw another farmer who is run
ming a large farm with tenants. He
supplies each with land, stock, inn
plements, seed and food for the
stock II shall lose money on
everytenant on my place" Wby?|
Those tenants buy everything
give mortgages, pay long, prices;
he stands their security. He
does this too when he gets only half
their crops and knows too that his
industrious neighbor, who owns his
land and stock and gets all that he
makesYis breaking under the same
system. The negro tenant works
whenand as he ~nleases Ha will