The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1888-01-11

Il may De stated too, bat the Inauguration Of system by
which exhausted and instances abandoned lands
- @ almost their original fertility hopes
energies and opens the way for young remain
on the homeseads of their ancestors and receive
nom tMr 9oS and at the time strengthen their
~1he r of President Lee which viii be furnished Won
during the seonshows that the Board Trustees limited the
number IN the dormtory hundred The attendance mn
70 this date is two sixty The report also DISCLOSE
the fsc that the College fen obliged to decline receype between
two and three hundred applicants during the last and present
appicant too who registered before the opeu
ing of the session and Anxious to attend the COleres
The report also gives detailed statement of the receipts
with its wants and needs for 1889
The receipts from the State for the two years just
rp s'4:ias On land .s-i1.. $3.50 s:s9 g g
which amount has been expended for salaries student labor re
pairs building and incidentals
The sum Of S. l6O6S received from chemical fees has been
expended for chemicals glass used by Students and for
analysis of fertilizers, apparatus and equipment Other
received from the farm and Horticultural departments have
been expended in these departments for further evepmen
1t will be observed that the farm is and has been fsas
aningnOt having received dollar from any in three
years
The requirements of the College are that all students shah
perform labor and while this profitable
systematic labor important feature students ed
ucaon-it gives him SYSTEM habits Of industry experience
and information that assists him In becoming intelligent
farmer
The report of the President refers especially the
which has since the establishment of the College abored under
many disadvantages Agriculture regarded the
important and Horticulture left struggle make its way
with but little This industry assuming importance
in the State and deserves substantial encouragement
pah Hnd Madison and perhaps other counties the raising
early fruits and vegetables only profitable but the indus
has been 100 per the last years The
professor of this department thoroughly in love with hs
work. and with fair opportunity would demonstrate the value
and Importance of the industry.
Congress has donated $751; 900 per each State for
the establishment of Agricultural Experiments Station in
connection with the Agricultural College the State and when
there are two such colleges in State that the fund shall be
divided unless the Legislature shall otherwise direct The OBJ
the Experimental Station is understand to test the
various Soils well crops and what crops best suited
particular lands well the fertilizer thai hoSd be used
These and experiments would be made tn farm of the
College, and the result givento the public BY this
general that would be expensive
individuals further the object and purposes Of the
donation respectfully suggest that division Of the fund would
be of but little value either College, and considering the
superior appointments and equipments of the A NJ COLLEGE,
respectfully recommend the passage Of law accepting the
Donation and applying the fund to this College to be expended
under the direction of the Board of Trustees
submit that the educational interests of bate should be
osered and supported and in your deliberations upon this i'm
portant subject you will be unmnd that every vocation
and pursuit in Mississippi depends upon the and pros
perty of gcuture and Horticulture and for the therance
and advancement of these paramount industries the Agrleu
Mechanical College important factor and stands
the list of institutions of its characern the United
States not excepting that of Michigan
From the opening Of