AGRICULTURE IN NEGRO SCHOOLS. 725 



DELAWARE. 

 State College for Colored Students, Dover. 



This college offers a four-year classical course leading- to the degree 

 bachelor of arts, a four-3'ear scientitic course loading to the degree bach- 

 elor of science, a four-3'ear engineering course leading to the degree 

 bachelor of engineering, and a four-year ajjfi'it'ultural course leadins: 

 to the degree bachelor of agriculture. In addition there is a normal 

 course of three years, the graduates of which receive certiticates 

 recommending them as teachers in the public schools of the State, and 

 a two-jear preparatory course. 



Applicants for admission to the college course must be at least 14 

 years of age and be able to pass a satisfactor}' examination in read- 

 ing, writing, spelling, arithmetic, English grammar, and history of 

 the United States, except in the classical course, where additional 

 tests in rhetoric, algebra, and English classics are required. Students 

 are admitted to the preparatory and normal courses without examina- 

 tion. 



The first two years of the agricultuial course is the same as the 

 scientitic course and include mathematics, botany, anatomy, biolog}', 

 ph3\sical geography, English, history, chemistry, zoology, miner- 

 alog}', and Latin. The agricultural subjects of the junior and senior 

 3'ears include breeding, drainage, feeding, vegetable physiology and 

 pathology, dairying, fruit culture, horticulture, and physics of the soil. 

 The agricultural faculty consists of one instructor in practical agri- 

 culture. The agricultural students are required to take practical 

 work in agriculture and horticulture averaging two hours a day. 

 Laboratory practice is an important feature of instruction in botany, 

 zoology, chemistry, and ph3'sics. The librar}- of the college contains 

 several hundred volumes. 



The college is located 2 miles north of Dover on the Loockerman 

 farm, a tract of about 100 acres containing, in addition to the college 

 buildings, a nundier of farm buildings and greenhouses, orchards, 

 and small fruit ])lantations. 



FLORIDA. 



The Florida State Normal and Industrial School, TaUahas»ee. 



This institution includes a ])rei)aratory school antl a noi'uial school. 

 The work of the school is organized in three departments — academic, 

 agricultuial, and mechanical — and boys who receive diplomas are 

 required to complete the academic work and either the agricultural or 

 the mechanical work, which are features of each term's work in both 

 the prcpaiatorv and tlif normal course. 



Applicants for admission to the normal course must be 1<> years old, 



