Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-24

upon agricultural training. AS evidence Of
this fact 1t may be stated that the school
owns between 1890 and 2, 400 acres of land,
OF which about loo acres are under cult
walton. The main crops cultivated are
corn for ensilage and slower, OATS native
nay, COW peas. Vetch, sugar cane and
teosinte Other crops, of course raised
On smaller scale for experimental and
instruction purposes, including several
riettes of cotton in the experiment sta
ton. Over 500 tons of silage have been
stored away in four large Silos for winter
feeding, and the forage is to be fed as
| roughage. The farm has over 16O acres in
sweet potatoes. The large truck garden of
some 9S acres raises vegetables not only
to supply the schools needs, but to send
out daily two wagons to supply the teach
ers and families living near the school and
to citizens in the town of Tuskegee. The
dairy also sends out two wagons through
the same communities, morning and aft
ernoon, to supply milk and butter There
is an orchard of 1900 trees and a canning
factory operated by the students In which
they put up much of the fruit raised for
use In the boarding department of the
institute. In the dairy herd cows yearling
and calves total 400; the beef-raising herd
3Oo horses mules, etc, 1873; hogs number
1000 and the chickens. geese and ducks
make up total of 800 fowls.
Principal Washington's Address.
Principal Booker T. Washington present.
ed the President in the following words:
HIS Is d great Cdy IOr the IuSkegee
Normal and Industrial Institute too great
to be described by words. We have gath
cred to hear but one voice, to see but one
face.
I'm presenting our guest to the students,
teachers and citizens l must not omit to ex-
press the gratitude felt by the people Of
| the Tuskegee Institute, and by the people
Of both races in this section of Alabama
for the honor which has been conferred
upon them.
THAT the chief magistrate of our be-
loved republic of 100000 people deemed
it good and wise to include T1skeeee In
stitute in his trip through the south. and
spend few hours in seeing the work We
are doing here, brings to the heart of every
man and woman of cur race in this coun-
try degree Of encouragement and inspira-
ton which it is impossible fer any Amer
lean citizen. not OF our race. fully to ap-
preciate.
MY friends, without further words of
mine, l have the pleasure and the honor
of presenting to you the President of the
United States. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt"
The Presidents Address.
President Roosevelt spoke as follows:
ITO the white population as well as to
the black it is OF the utmost Importance
that the negro be encouraged to make
himself citizen of the highest type of use
fulness. 1t Is to the interest OF the white
people that this policy be conscientiously
pursued and to the interest of the coIored
people that they clearly realize that they
have opportunities for economic develop
ment here in the south not now offered
elsewhere.
Within the last twenty years the In
dustrial operations of the south have in
creased SO tremendously that there is
scarcity of labor almost everywhere: so
that 1t is the part of wisdom for all who
wish the prosperity of the south to help
the negro to become in the highest degree
useful to himself, and, therefore to the
community in which he lives.
THE south has always depended and
now depends, chiefly upon her native pop
ulation for her work. Therefore, in view
of the scarcity not only of common labor
but of skilled labor, 1t becomes doubly inn
portant to train every available man to
be of the utmost use, by developing his
intelligence, his skill and his capacity for
conscientious effort. Hence the work of
the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Insti-
tute is a matter of the highest practical i'm
portance to both the white man and the
black man, and we'll worth the support OF
both races alike in the south and In the
north.
Tuskegee's Special Training.
"Your 1900 students are not only being
educated In head and heart. but also train
ed to Industrial efficiency, for from the be-
ginning Tuskegee has placed especial en-
phasis upon the training of men and women
In agriculture mechanics and household du-
ties. Training In these three fundamental
directions does not embrace all that the
negro or any other race needs. but 1t does
cover in very large degree the field In
for himself and be most helpful, to his
white neighbors. Every black man who
leaves this institution better able to do