The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-07
THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE
OF AGRICULTURE AND
MECHANIC ARTS.

A few years ago some warm u6dECeu
and patriotic men, realizing that the
time had come when practical and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS men were needed
to guide and encourage the agricultural
and industrial development OF the
State, took steps that led to the estab-
lishment, in 1887, by the Legislature,
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College.
The new College was put under a
Board of Trustees, composed OF the
Board of Agriculture, and five others
to be appointed by the Governor. The
Governor appointed the following five
gentlemen: Messrs. w. S. Primrose,
N. B. Broughton, II. E. Fries, 5. b.
Alexander and Elias Carr. These
with the members of the Board Of
Agriculture, Messrs. w. T. Green, A.
Leazar. w. r Williams, G. D. Smith,
w. r. Capehart, J. F. Payne, }. S.
Murrow, w. E. Stevens, j. B. Coffield,
S. L. Patterson, make up the Trustees
at present. Mr.. w. S. Primrose Is the
President of the Board.
In 1889, the Board elected a corps OF
instructors consisting of a President,
five professors, one assistant, a farm
superintendent, a steward, and a
matron. Since then there have been
several additions and the Faculty is
now constituted as follows:
Alex. Q. Holiday, President; j. R.
Chamberlain, Professor of Agriculture
w. +. Massey, Professor of Horticul-
ture; w. A. Withers, Professor of
Pure and Agricultural Chemistry d.
H. Hill, Jr., Professor of English; j..
H. Kinealy, Professor of Mechanics and
Applied Mathematics; R. E. L. Yates,
Adjunct Professor of Mathematics; f.
E. Emery, Assistant Professor of Agri-
culture; G. NJ. Pritchett, Instructor in
Mechanics; c. II. Parks, Instructor IN
Practical Mechanics; B. $. Skinner,
Farm superintendent; J n. Hubbard,
Steward Mrs. S. G.. Carroll, MatrOn.
The College opened its doors for
students in the fall 1889, and has just
closed it's second successful year, hav-
ing in it's Freshman and Sophomore
classes eighty two young men. OF
course, as the College is only two years
old, it has no Junior or Senior class,
but will have in due course. Moreover
as the mission of the institution gets
better known, and as people find out
the thorough kind of work done IN 1t,
the entering, or Freshman class, Will
be larger each year. Especially Will
this be so when it becomes generally
understood that there is an active de
mand, at good salaries, for young men
trained as these are. Already many
of the students, who have taken only
a partial course, are receiving, as
skilled men, salaries double that they
could have commanded before.
MISSION OF THE COLLEGE.
This is a new kind of institution IN
the State and many people do not
understand it's design. 1t has for its
mission:
LIST. To train young men to be prac-
ticaI and scientific farmers.
I'd. To make skilled horticulturists,
truckers, etc,
Sd. To equip thorough mechanical
engineers, men capable of constructing
and running any kind Of machinery.
4th. To prepare men to be civil
engineers.
9Th. To turn out builders, architects,
etc.
9th. To give these technical workers
such general knowledge IS every citi-
zen should have.
COURSE OF STUDY.
The College offers only two courses
of study: the Agricultural and the Me
chanicaI, but in each of these technical
courses there are included Mathe-
MATES, Chemistry, English, History,
Bookkeeping.
THE AGRICULTURAL COURSE.
There was a time when men never
dreamed Of studying farming, and
when any attempt to apply to agricul-
ture the fundamental principles of
science was ridiculed as being vision
ary," and as being ''book-farming.'
All this is now changed. The most
successful and most progressive farm
ers all now hold that science is the
foundation on which improved agri,
culture is based They see that a
farmer ought to study chemistry hat
he may know the value of the different
kinds of manures and fertilizers and
upon what crops and what sort of land