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tenn of drainage, and creamery bust
ness.
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fQ) Have partially educated hun
dreds of boys who are farmers as
managers or owners.
| (2.) Have reached class who
would have remained without educa-
ton of any kind, besides that of com
mon schools.
49, Have graduates in responsible
positions in Washington 2, West Vir-
ginia l, Kentucky l, Arkansas l, Mis-
sissippi many, Texas 8, and other
States.
| a. This college is supplying col
leges in other States, with trained
scientific professors and instructors of
agriculture, horticulture, chemistry,
Sc.
Graduates: One professor receiving
a salary of $2,25O; four professors,
$1,20O each; two graduates, $1,000
each; four, $500 each, and so on.
(5.) In drawing boys from the rural
districts, and in exess of those $50 con-
sidered) brighter boys, destined by
their parents for the so called learned
professions.
46) Have made labor honorable
throughout the State in the eyes of
hundreds of young men who have at
tended the college and in the eyes of
hundreds of others with whom these
students have been associated who
were not able to attend college.
IT, In giving students proper
idea of the value of labor by requir-
ing them to labor during their college
days.
(6.) Graduates and others who have
attended the college for more than
one year have generally left it with a
spirit of self-reliance and aptitude for
work of some kind.
Co., Have created a demand in the
State, and out, for students to fill po-
sitions as teachers, managers of farms
and creameries, professors and instruc-
tors in other agricultural colleges and
at agricultural experiment stations.
(TO.) The college has been an incal-
culable blessing to certain class Of
farmer boys, who are very backward
in their studies, and yet too far ad-
vanced in age to be willing to
attend the neighborhood schools.
If they have any large num-
bers of such boys or young men each
year enter the preparatory depart
ment, and then receive the benefit Of
good common school education, and in
addition, an insight into the elementary
principles of agriculture, as taught and
illustrated in the class theoretically,
and on the college farm practically.
Many are thus induced to continue the
course in the higher classes Of the col
lege. But even those who go no
further, return to their homes far
better prepared than they otherwise
would have been for lives of useful
ness and happiness.
By means of farmers Institutes (46
in number) held under the auspices of
the college, the representative farmers
of nearly every section of the State,
have been brought into sympathy and
cooperation with the college, in i'm
proving the present system of agricul-
ture. Valuable information is thereby
spread broadcast throughout the State,
and desire of improved machinery,
better varieties of seed, better breeds
of stock, better forage plants, &C., is
stimulated and the experience Of
successful farmers have been brought
out.
These are some of the results as I
see them. It is likely they may be
colored little highly, but believe
them to be true. The college has
made mistakes and will continue to
make them no doubt, but the manage
ment is true and loyal to the agricul-
tural interests of the State, and will
correct errors as discovered or pointed
out. l ask the farmers of Mississippi
to be patient, to visit and inspect the
college. The workings of the college
have been approved by every commit
tee of farmers who have visited it;
among them the committees Of the
State Grange. The Oktibbeha County
Alliance, by a committee of South
Carolina farmers, sent by conven-
tion of farmers, and who spent week
at the college. By Commissioner of
Agriculture, Coleman, who visited it,
by numerous correspondents sent
specially to report, and I believe will
be by any committee of farmers in
Mississippi or elsewhere, who will
visit us and take the time to examine
our workings.
The first open and avowed candi-
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