AORICULTURE IN NKGRO SCHOOLS. 739 



of iiislruction and practico in farm operations. There is also a oood 

 outtit of farm implements, ineludino- reaper, corn and cotton plant- 

 ers, and a variety of plows, harrows, tmd cultivators. 



VIRGINIA. 

 Hampton Normal and Agrricultural Institute, Hampton. 



This institution wa.> opt'ned to negro children in ISO^ und to Indian 

 children in isT*^. The courses of study offered include a three-year 

 academic course followed by two-year normal, aj^ricultural. business, 

 domestic art. and domestic science courses. There are also numerous 

 trade courses and summer normal courses. A practice school, udmit- 

 tin^,' children from the kinderofarten up, is connected with the institute. 



For admission to the academic department applicants must ])e able 

 to read well in books corresponding- to the thinl reader, to write in a 

 fair hand a jjaragraph or simple letter in English, and to pass satisfac- 

 tory examijiation> t»oth in mental and written work in the first four 

 rules of arithmetic, in I'nited States money, liquid, dry. and long 

 measure, avoiidupois weight, and conunon and decimal fractions. 

 Api)licants for admission to the more advanced courses must be 

 graduates of the academic <-ourse or nuist pass examinations equivalent 

 to that course. 



The e<iuipment of the institute includes OO buildings, several hundred 

 acres of land, and all the necessaiy a})paratus. machinery, live stock, 

 etc. A description of the agricultuial features of the instruction and 

 equipment is given in the following article, prepared at our request by 

 the officer in charge of the agricultural department of the institute: 



METHODS AND FACILITIES FOR INSTRUCTION IN AGRICXJLTXTRE 

 AT THE HAMPTON NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE. 



Ky ('. 1,. (i<H)I>KICH, 



Professor nf AgrirnUiirf, in ( 'Jinrge of the Agrirultiirul iJepnrtmeut. ■ 



The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute i> a land-grant 

 institution. Hampton dirters, however, from the majority of land- 

 grant colleges in that her pupils ai-e negroes and Indians. It is an 

 industrial school and its course of instruction is not carried to so 

 high an acadennc degree as in other land-grant institutions. 



The academic course covers the ground from the kindergarten 

 through about two vears of high-school work, barring all languages 

 but F^nglish. The work fi-om the kindergarten through the fifth 

 g-rade is carried <»n in the Whittier School. This i> the practice school 

 of the institute and is attended by al»out 4<K» children from the innne- 

 diate vicinity. The institut*' proper is attended l>v about 7<>o l)oarding 

 students, girls and l)oys, from all ]>arts of the South. Hampton otters 



