The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-08

small model to house. The blacksmith
shop also attracts interest. Here
specialist who served at Biltmore gives
attention to the shoeing of the horses
with such care and skill that horses with
a faulty way of lifting and carrying their
feet are often corrected A canning
course has been arranged in which the
students are taking much interest. A
brick yard is soon to be made an i'm
portant feature of the work.
President Dudley in late number of
the A. and NJ College Register. thus out
lines the scope and plan of the work of
the college,:
The trustees invite the careful con-
sideration of the colored people of North
Carolina, particularly the educators
among them and leaders of thought, to
the grand opportunities offered by the
State and aided by the United States to
the colored youth to thoroughly equip
themselves for the battle of life and
prepare to successfully work their way
as ''breadwinnerS" and secure indepcn-
dence, carrying with it the highest type
of American citizenship. Brain and
hands are here educated together.
Fully eighty per cent. of the colored
people in this State live in the country
and subsist on agriculture. The future
of the colorej race in the South depends
upon the ownership of farm lands and
their intelligent and skillful treatment
by colorei farmers. This field will be
free from competition and race feeling.
Owners of large tracts of land now
yielding nothing will be only too glad
to rent them to the skilled farmer who
graduates from an agricultural college,
and also provide him with stock and i'm
Elements of husbandry.
'The young man who leaves this col
lcge, with honor, a good character and a
well-trained mind; who is familiar with
science and art relating to his calling in
agriculture, mechanics or any of the
t. AIDES, will not be compelled to canvass
the country seeking employment. Capt.
tai will be looking for him to place him
in charge of lands and stock, to handle
machinery and direct unskilled laobr.
Wherever skilled labor is found among
producers, turning the wheels of indus
try that increase the wealth of the
world, there will be found graduates of
the Agricultural and Mechanical College
State. Her manufacturing interests are
increasing in wonderful manner; her
mineral resources are great, and the
future of wealth lies in the hands of the
men who will guide her pillow, care for
her live stock, economically use her for
ests, drive her machinery, harness up
her water powers and manufacture her
iron and other products. The men who
can do this best will be those who will
qualify themselves for the work by a
course IN the Agricultural and Mechani
cal College.
THE college, broad in it's purpose,
practical in its work. elevating in its in
fiuences, is intended to assist and
strengthen the colored people in all
their efforts for industrial and intellec-
tual advancement. AS such its peculiar
mission must commend it to the intel
ligent colored men and women of the
State from whom the trustees and facul
ty confidently expect such sympathy and
support as will enable them to make the
college of inestimable value to the peo-
pie for whom it was instituted, as we'll
as to the government by which it is fos
tered"