The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-26
TUSKEGEE NEGRO
 SCHOOL REVIEWED
Institute Is Making Rapid Gains Toward Better
 and Higher Things

The IuShGEe0 ANolhidl anu ihA
 Institute for Negroes, Booker T. Wash ington, founder and principal, entered mon it's thirty-first annual session a ] week ago last Tuesday. Every one of the forty different industries is now | in full operation. under the direction of | 1S0 teachers and instructors with an enrolment of 1900 students as against | 1123 for the same date last year. Forty-two are enrolled in the post against 26 for the same date last year. Of the total enrolment to date 450 are new students. There Is perceptible in- crease in every department.
 Phelps Hall Bible Training school en-
 rolled 26 against 20 for the same date last year with 10 new students. l This remarkable increase of new stu dents in all departments with the pres ent enrolment of old students shows | that last years enrolment of 1702 will soon be eclipsed and the capacity for
 accommodating students will be filled and applicants will be necessarily burned away for the want of accom-
 modation.
 | It Is estimated that 40 per cent of the old students, now detained on ac- count of the cotton picking season and other causes, are yet to come in during | fhe fall.
 | ! The increase of post graduates shows I the very excellent work done by the public schools of Alabama and the growing demand for better trained teachers to take charge of the public schools of the state Supplying this growing demand of the public schools of the commonwealth is one of the main features of the work of Tuskegee | institute To this end the institute has | secured the most competent talent | available and provided the amplest means.
 Prof. J. R. E. Lee, director of the academic department gave out the statement today that generally speak | ing the new students are making high CT classes as result of the good work done by the public schools of the state of Alabama and the other states from which these students have come. Con- seauently the outlook is bright for 2 better years work.
 | Major J. B. Ramsey, commandant, is we'll pleased with the general appear ance of the new students and their I ca gerness to adapt themselves to the | rigid discipline of the school
 | George R. Bridgeforth, director of the school of agriculture, which centers in Milbanl< Agricultural hall is delighted with the outlook for his extensive de- partment Students are crowding in
 and they are being assigned to farm ing. truck gardening, the care of live stock and the creamery.
 Professor Bridgeforth stated today that of the institute farm proper, consisting of 2400 acres of land, 80 acres are used as truck garden, 80 acres to orchards and small fruits. $40 acres are devoted to general farming, while 400 will be aarf,,a 1A1 ltl, purposes. The work on the farm alone will require at least 300 students. Last
 year the farm yielded 632 tons of ensilage. 12,0oe bushels of sweet potatoes, $500 bush- els of corn and 3650 bushels of oats. The leaeing crops of the truck garden were 115 453 pounds of greens, 1116 dozen bUrches of lettuce, 465 bushels of onions, 5 bushels of beets, 3576 watermelons, 35S bushels of lima and snap beans, 7S3
 bushels of tomatoes. 321 bushels rutabaga and turnips 3150 dozen ears of green corr and cantaloupes, white potatoes and peas in abundance. This year the yield will be greater because of increase in the number of students and better farm
 ing facilities. Students will take care of ,500 peach trees 10000 strawberry plants. 1850 grapevines and 1S5 fig trees
 Under the efficient management of A.
 A. Turner the creamery received last year 6, ,9iS gallons of milk and manufactured 15,IlS pounds of butter. This department is operated the year round. The yield this year will average 75 pounds a day. Following the most approved methods Of farming, three or four crops year are raised on the same land. Last year C. w. Green raised on the same land excessively crops of white potatoes. corn and cowpeas making from $500 to S400 per acre in one year.
 The shops where the mechanical in- dustres are taught. under the direction of Richard R. Taylor, are located in the Sla ter-Armstrong Memorial Trades build ing. This spacious two story brick building, with the sawmill, the boiler house, tool and storage rooms occupies floor space of 37G50 square feet In this building Professor Taylor head of the department, manages the trades in car pentry, woodworking. printing, tailoring, blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, harness making, carriage trimming, plumbing, steemitting electric lighting, architec- | tural and mechanical drawing, timing, painting, team-engineering and shoe making, each department now operat- hing with many new students.
 l Students in this department make bricks saw lumber. build houses, make l cabinets. shoe horses and do a hundred i other things covering all the mechanical industries required in a first class city
 
 ing the services of 550 students, are 1 taught bv the best talent available, di- l r. cted by Professor Taylor. who has had T. years experience in the work at Tuskegee institute.
 What are known on the grounds as the 1 Girls Trades are taught in Dorothy | hall under the direction of Mrs. Booker T. Washington, assisted by Dean S. IT. Por- | ter The building contains a laundry | cooking school, dressmaking, millinery 1 and domestic science departments and a mattress factory. Besides turning out ! last year 1449 brooms, l25 mattresses, 'v | mats, R4 curtains, 193 tablecloths, 2d3 bedticks, 2011 pillow cases, 123 window | shades and 99 screens, valued at SON. | these girls do all the laundry work for
 the school which means 100000 pieces d | year Three years ago "child nursing and | nurture was inaugurated in this building l and that work is now in operation. The I work in this department froms a connect | ing link between the work of the kinder
 garten and the work of the hospital train l ing school. Young women are taught the proper care of children Five hundred | girls are connected with the industries m l Dorothy hall and the prospects are bright I for more than 600, considering the num- I Der of new students enrolled.
 l Clinton J. Galloway, director of the eX ] tension department, made the following
 statement today.
 .The extension department runs about
 every division 12 months. The division or | rural school extension work is now busy 1 at helping the rural communities arrange ] for more successful school year 19ll-i2