AGRICULTURE IN NEGRO SCHOOLS. 735 



normal, mochanical engineering, and agi'icultiiral. There are also 

 three-3'ear eolloge preparatory ;ind architectural courses and four-year 

 elementary courses. Duringthe past year there have })oon no students 

 in the collegiate courses. 



The agricultural course as outlined in the catalogut; of the institu- 

 tion includes the study of soils, crops, maiuires, farm ('([uipment, 

 breeds of live stock, plans of farm building, and judging live stock 

 during the first year; farm econonn', farm motors, farm roads, milk 

 analysis, foods and food adulteration during the second year; horti- 

 culture, soil analysis, stock bi-eeding and feeding, farm dair3^ing, and 

 drainage during the junior year, and diseases of animals in the first 

 term of the senior year. The other sul)jects in the course include 

 mathematics, ))cginning with trigonometrv, English beginning with 

 rhetoric, mechanical drawing, shop work, ])otaiiy. l)iologv, chemistry, 

 vegetable pathology, comparative anatomy and physiology, histor\^, 

 surgery and sanitation, psychology, human physiology, geolog}', 

 moral philosophy, and political economy. Instruction in agriculture 

 is given partly by lectures and partly ))y text-books by one instructor. 



Students have access to a library of about 60<' \()hiiiies. including 

 a number of pu))lications of this Department, The t-ollege farm com- 

 prises about l(jO acres, 00 of which are availal)le for cultivation and 

 40 for pasture. The only farm l)uilding is a ])ai"n of very limited 

 capacity and eijuipment. There is a span of nudes, one horse, and 

 one cow, also a few farm iin])lements and machines. About 50 stu- 

 dents have been taking agriculture during the past year. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 

 Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural, and Mechanical College, Orangeburg. 



This institution admits children of kindergarten iri'fide to the school 

 and provides instruction that will carry them through college courses 

 leading to degrees. Th<' degrees given are bachelor of arts for the 

 regular college course, bachelor of agriculture for the agiicultural 

 course, bachelor of science for the mechanical course, and licentiate of 

 instruction for the normal course. Students entering anv of the col- 

 lege courses are required to pass examinations or pres(Mit ecpiivalents 

 in English granunar, history, composition, geography, arithmetic, 

 algebra through (piadratic equations, elementary physics, botan}-, and 

 physiology. 



Freshmen in the agricultural course have four hours a week of plane 

 geometry throughout the year; two hours a week of (Jenung's Outlines 

 of Rhetoric; two hours a week for one term of English classics: four 

 hours a week of agriculture; tive hours a week of farm work, and 

 eight hours a week of industries. Sophomores have solid geometr}', 



