The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-25

$4.240.30; amount expended on brick
yard $S,252.23, and receipts therefrom
S2.44S.t5.' AS to this the examiners say:
We would prefer that an industrial
| school teach how farm and brick yard
can be run with profit
GAS a matter of fact, during the time
mentioned, 16 months there was spent
on the farm, including machinery, etc,
$1.4SS.S1 instead of $10,0527S, and on the
brick yard, installed only about a year
ago, including cost of machinery, build
ing and all materials, the sum of 81 ,9001y
instead of $S.252.23, as stated, making
errors of Sl4 9l6.11 in these two items
alone. The brick yard is paying ex-
penses and the farm is making a hand
some income.
THE farm raised this year the follow
ing crop: 10 two-horse loads of pump
kins, some weighing as much as IS
pounds. PIG bushels sweet potatoes.
About 80 tons of ensilage About 1,240
bushels of corn. bushels of peas 6 tons
of shucks. 4,O32 bundles of fodder. 3,Oi6
! bundles of tops. About II tons of hay.
IL ton of broom corn. About $50 bush
els of turnips. About 35 bushels of late
matoes (canned). barrels krout.
'And this does not include hay and
green food used for COW and horses from
| June LIST to November 21st, neither does
| it include produce sold for cash. and that
| used for feeding students.
1.-THE appropriations of SIS, 10000 are
distributed by the board to the various
| departments as follows: So. 500 to the
orfy nF A
| This department runs the farm, maintains
| a fourishing dairy, keeps the dining
room where board is furnished at $500
per month; has charge of the green
houses pigs, horses. poultry and of the
entire campus. 1t does all of this and
does it well. and pays all salaries of the
department for practical instruction in
| these various branches.
zone thousand five hundred dollars to
the Department Of Agriculture and Chem
stry. This department teaches the theory
and pays all salaries and expenses with
the amount named $4,000 to the Me-
chanical Department. This department
furnishes all heat and power used in
the college, except in the dairy and
farm. and has a brick yard. tin shop,
shoe and harness shop, and blacksmith
shop 1t teaches practical carpentry and
to this end has built several houses in
the city. 1t teaches plumbing, brick lay
ing and plastering and cabinet work. all
in a practical way. These trades are
pursued primarily of course for the pur-
pose of instruction but they are made
as nearly self-supporting as possible,
and nearly everything taught in the Me-
chanical and Agricultural Industries De-
partments pays some return to the col
loge. and some pay satisfactory profits.
100000 to the General Department.:
This department teaches the English
| branches, supplies the library, furnishes
water lights. repairs to building, pays
all administrative expenses. and every
| thing not included in the ether depart
ments.
THE entire salaries of every kind and
of all departments for the year ending
June LIST. 1902, SO $1,000, and for the year
ending June LIST, 1908, they will be So
02S75, the average salary of all teachers
| being $4S5.05.
"A classical school could be ruhc for
less, for technical instruction IS always
more costly. Technical teachers are
rarer and more expensive. and more ap-
paratus is required than in classical
schools but by comparison with similar
institutions for colored people in other
States, the cost is remarkably small.
"The examiners advise against fdrth-
Ell appropriations until it is shown by ex-
perience that this kind of teaching is call
culated to promote the best interests of
the great mass of our needy people.
Men and brethren, be honest If you
want to take away appropriations from
the negro. do it like men. Don't say you
! will close up an institution until II dem
onstrates by experience what it can Go.
eff the General Assembly thinks it can
improve the management, / feel sure