The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-06
A GREAT AGRICULTURAL AND
>INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. at
Located in the Heart of Missouri's
Rich Soil.

duo W see GHe WoHuerIul Improve
ments made within one year leads the
thoughtful student of events to say
that this school is going to command
greater influence and higher de-
gree of efficiency than the Tuskegee
because of its location and it's fast
taking place at the head with Prof.
N. C. Bruce and his loyal wife and
able teachers. They are now building
fine modern barn 40x60, holding
twenty head Of cattle and twenty head
Of horses, nearly completed, also have
built and filled with hundred tons of
silage, are concrete monuments as
witnesses of this great result. In be-
slowing "knighthood and awarding
the worlds premium at the White
Corn Growers Show this year the
governor of the state among other
things said: a,,..s--@
: "The state is proud of this private
schools efficient, successful work;
proud Of the black boys and girls which
it is rightly training back to their best
chance and hope; proud Of its chari-
table citizens and other good men and
women who are promoting this school
through your good work and wise
leadership. Your schools corn exhibit
at California largely helped and hon.
ored the entire state, the white race
as we'll as the black race, and the men
and women Of affairs who have given
and will continue to donate to equip
and endow such a school to reclaim
the fast wasting Negro youths of Mis-
souri, along the purposes and mission
of this Bartlett farm school, are
building more wisely than they know
by helping the least and most needy
of humanity of our great state" 'Tis
true, the large yield Of corn, ia bush
els to the acre, has not only led all in
the state of Missouri for the past
two years, but the exhibits at the Kan
sas Corn Growers Show last Decem-
Der, Governor Capper being present,
took first in that state. In January at
Tuskegee Institute the great Booker
T. Washington's school, in the South
ern Corn Growers contest, 3,100 farm
ers contesting, the school won out and
received an earnest letter requesting
it to lend that school this year its
exhibit to be kept there as an inspira-
ton to thousands of southern farmers
in developing quality in their corn.
Also by this schools good results the
United States, through it's farm exten-
sion and service department at the
Missouri university, have been in
duced to appoint and pay an expert
Negro farm agent, Professor E. N.
Parrish, graduate Of the Kansas Ag-
ricultural and Industrial school,
among other mechanics also, for six
months, ending in September, 1915,
$40 per month to extend the thor
ough-going, result-producing farm
work of the Bartlett Agricultural and
Industrial School among the 1000 Ne
gro farmers Of the state, locating him
with his headquarters at this school.
The state board of agriculture has
used the principal for lecturing to our
farmers when they could, and the Mis-
souri, university has become especially
interested in the schools work.
Moreover, white farmers from many
parts of the state have purchased
pure bred Boone county white seed
corn and many county papers have
written accounts of its successes and
have praised and recommended the
school to their colored patrons. Met
ropolitan papers, farm journals and
magazines hitherto not noticing Ne
gro farmers have come to recognize
/ that heavy Missouri liability Of hu-
man beings can make, is being made,
| into a, record asset at this school and
| out on farms by the work and meth.
DDS used by this school. This is some
gain if it only keeps up, increasing
and adding to it year by year. At the
ninth annual Negro Farmers Confer.
ence last February, Hon. Frederick D
Gardner of st. Louis, Mo-; Judge w
X. James, our president; p. B. Kel.
logg, editor Of the Charlton Courier;
| a.. r. Arlington, county surveyor q
Charlton county, and other white men,
! who were also present, and over 800
llisSouri NsSr6 farns ~ azd their
wives and sOns viewed TIE industziaJ
! sxhibiti of cooking, laundering, sews
Ins and especially ths corn, and pro,