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ricultural department Of tie state Normal

ricultural department of the State Normal
School at Tallahassee.
William V. Chamblis of the class of 1894
has charge of the farming operations of
the Southern Improvement Company of
Montgomery, an organizat ton that is col
ouizing negro families upon its land, and
is said to DE remarkably successful.
Schools Founded by Graduates.
Many are the schoots that have been
founded by graduaes sof Tuskegee Insti-
tute, or chartered by various southern
states under their direction. Here is a
list Of some of theH
Snow Hill Institut6 4labama. Started by
William j. Edwards$pf the class of 1893, in
one-room cabin: POW has 100 acres of
land buildings valued at $4,000 an income
of $4,000, faculty of twenty teachers (all
former students at Tuskegee) and 400 stu
dents who are taught seven different trades.
Rushton Louisiana. Started by Charles
p. Adams with three teachers (all Tuskegee
graduates), and now has LIE students. Is
receiving cordial encouragement from the
white people of that section.
Utica Normal and Industrial Institute,
Mississippi. Started by w. H. Holtzclaw
and wife, both graduates of Tuskegee, with
seven teachers (all from Tuskegee) and
more than 200 students
Hartman Industrial Institute, Tennessee.
Founded by ]. w. Obeltrea and wife, both
from Tuskegee; shas four teachers and 100
students.
The Robert Hungerford Institute Eaton
ville Fla. Founded by Archie Calhoun of
the class of 1896 and his wife, Has 140
students and three teachers (all from Tus-
kegee).
The voorhees, Industrial School, Denmark,
s. c. Founded by Elizabeth E. Wright of
the class of 1884,. She has 800 acres of land
al paid for and several buildings designed
and erected by Tuskegee students; 800 pu-
pills and three Tuskegee graduates as her
assistants.
There are ten other schools in different
parts of the south founded and taught by
Tuskegee graduates. None of them has
less than sixty students and some have sew
eral hundred There are altogether not less
than 4,ooo young colored men and women
being educated in them while more than 200
graduates of Tuskegee Institute are en-
gagged as teachers in other Industrial
schools. Isaac Fisher, for example, a poor
young man who came to Tuskegee and
worked his way through, is principal of
the normal college of Pine Bluff, Ark. Miss
Annie Canty has charge of the domestic
science department in the industrial inst-
tute at Columbus, Ca, and Mary L. Nc
Creery occupies similar position in the
industrial college for colored people in Ok
lahoma. India A. Gordon has charge of the
dressmaking and millinery department at
the East Tennessee Industrial Institute; ].
5. Shanklin is principal of the Port Royal
agricultural School, South Carolina; Lucy
Clopton is matron at the Utica Normal In
stl.ute;; A b. Lovett is assistant principal
or pubic schools at Macon, Ga. and many
others might be mentioned who are occu-
plying similar positions
Cotton Raising in German Africa.
Upon the recommendation of Secretary
wilson of the Agricultural Department at
washington, three graduates of Tuskegee
went to Africa in 1900 to teach cotton
raising 10 the natives of the German prov
lnceS AT the end of the second year the
omciais We're so well satisfied with their
services that they sent for three other STU
gents ee ana last year hundred bales of cot
ION were shipped from Togo Africa, to
BerEn-the first notable invoice From
inns tlme on the product will rapidly in
crease. Both the English and Belgian gov
ernments have also EMPLOYED Tuskeeee
graduates to introduce cotton raising into
tne1r African colonies, and the government
u hayl mas recently made propositions to
d similar purpose. 1t has sent number of
young men to TuSkegee to he trainad T., |
farming The government of Porto Pic |
pense. P"'At1 CA
NOT more than half of the work of the |
institute is done on the campus or in tho |
auAilary schools that are taught bv it's |
STUDENTS whom l have mentioned Two
agents from the faculty are constantIv |
laNellnS IN Alabama. teaching the coIored |
farmers how to live how to worl, ~, ~
make the most of their labor how to i'm,
prove thelr farms and make gardens how
~ care lor stock, how to raise vegetables. |
,helr implements. They are continuaIIv
hoIdlns local conferences in different neigh |
oorhoods.' bringing the farmers together
anu taking 10 them on practical subjects. |
Farmers Conferences.
Seventy or eighty farmers meet at Tus-
kegee every month for a conference and orc
taught by the members of the agricultural
faculty, while an annual conference brtnes
together several hundred every year. The |
conference for 1905 has just adjourned IT
was the most encouraging ever held. show
ing That the colored farmers of Alabama
uuri'is the last year made more progress
IMAM ever before in history. More of them
are buying homes and farms Of their own
ana working on contracts less They ara
saving their money SO that they do NOT have
10 mortgage their cotton in advance They
are setung better tools and better seed so
that they can make better crops They aro
aoandongng the one-room cabin. which is |
the curse of the south, and arc buiIdino,
owo' snree and four-roomed houses. They
are educating their children and extending
the terms of the country schools by nrivate
SUBSCRIPTIONS The state keeps the scboo1S
open only three months, but by chipping in
a few dollars each the farmers in q nai,b
borhood are able to extend the term to firo
or SIX months. The churches are maxine
great improvements; they are getting rid
of immoral preachers and driving them ont
of the communities. All this is largely Sna
to Tuskegee influence.
Tuskegee Institute now has an endou
ment of s1,03O,553, but it needs at least
$4,000 900 Its income last year was on1y
$213,3O2, and it could use at least s501 oOO
per year with great profit to the sonth To
the country and to the negro race The
solution of the problem is here While the
few hundred students who go out of its
gates every summer are swallowed IN in
the 100000 that make the negro popula-
ton of this country, and the majority of
them disappear from the observation of the
world, each carries the spirit and Influence
of the institution with him and becomes a
missionary for the moral, physical social
and Industrial Improvement of his people.
Death Of T. M. Pomeroy.