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other schools for negroes where successful agricultural courses are main- 

 tained are the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, Normal, 

 Ala. ; State College for Colored Students, Dover, Del. ; Florida State 

 Normal and Industrial College, Tallahassee, Fla. ; Georgia State Indus- 

 trial College, College, Ga. ; State Normal School for Colored Persons, 

 Frankfort, Ky. ; Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College, New Orleans, La. ; Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege, Westside, Miss. ; Agricultural and Mechanical College for the 

 Colored Race, Greensboro, N. C. ; the Colored Normal, Industrial, and 

 Mechanical College of South Carolina, Orangeburg; West Virginia 

 Colored Institute, Institute, W. Va. 



4. Within the past few ,years a number of private agricultural schools 

 of secondary grade have been established. One of the most successful 

 of these institutions is the National Farm School, at Doylestown, Pa. 

 This school was established in 1896, and is supported by private dona- 

 tions, sales of farm products, and tuition fees. A State appropriation 

 of $2,500 a year for two 3'ears became available in 1901, and the State 

 legislature has recently increased the appropriation for the next bien- 

 nial period. The equipment consists of a farm of 122 acres, main 

 building, barn, greenhouses, and live stock. The course of study 

 covers four years, and includes the English, mathematics, and natural 

 sciences usually taught in a high school, together with a considerable 

 amount of instruction in the science and practice of agriculture. About 

 forty boys, mostly from cities, attend the school and perform a large 

 part of the labor necessary to carry on the farm. Eight boys gradu- 

 ated in 1901, six of whom are emploj^ed on farms, and two have been 

 assistants in the Bureau of Soils of this Department. 



A similar school of slightly lower grade is the Baron de Hirsch 

 Agricultural School, established in 1891 at Woodbine, N. J., and a sec- 

 ondary school, known as the Winona Agricultural and Technical Insti- 

 tute, has recently been established at Winona Lake, Ind. , witli a graduate 

 of Purdue University in charge of the agricultural department. 



5. In order to prepare teachers to give instruction in agriculture in 

 the public schools of the State, short courses in agriculture and horti- 

 culture have been given at summer schools held in connection with 

 the University of Missouri. These courses were, how^ever, necessarily 

 too limited in extent to fully meet the requirements of such work, and 

 courses in agriculture have therefore been established in the three 

 State normal schools, located at Kirksville, Warrensl)urg, and Cape 

 Girardeau. At the lirst the course in agriculture occupies nine and 

 one-half months; at the second, five months; at the third, ten months. 

 The demand for normal instruction in agriculture has led the agricul- 

 tural colleges of Coniiecticut and North Carolina to plan this year 

 summer schools for teachers, in which agricultural subjects will be 

 prominent. 



0. All of these agencies com))ined can not fully supply the need for 



