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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



and diiiiiig rooms, learn })lain and fancy cooking, candy-making\ 

 millinery, dressmaking, and all the most modern methods of laun- 

 dry work. One class learns nursing, under the direction of a ca- 

 pable trained nurse. 



In speaking of tlu^ trades taught at Tuskcgee, it should be re- 

 membered that agriculture is reckoned among them, and one of 



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the most important. A very large percentage of the negroes of 

 the South must continue to live upon the plantations and gain a 

 living by tilling the soil. As a general thing their knowledge of 

 how to best do this is lamentably deficient, and they labor under 

 great disadvantages. They do not own their land, but rent it at 

 ruinous rates. They mortgage their crops and eat them up before 

 they are harvested. They plant nothing but cotton, because that 

 is about the only crop that can be mortgaged, and are therefore 

 obliged to buy food at any exorbitant prices which the dealers may 

 demand. 'J'uskegee tries to remedy these evils by teaching the 

 young men who come thei-e the best methods of modern farming. 

 If the farmers' sons can remain only a shoi't time they carry back 

 to the home plantations some new ideas to ])ut in practice there; 

 if they can remain for the full term of three or four years, they are 

 fitted to take full charge of the work on any large plantation. The 

 institute has a farm on wliidi arc r;n<c<l the ('ro]»s best adapted 

 to the soil and climate of that part of the South. The \\\o\\ who 

 have charge of this work arc among the most iiMc in the entire 

 force of instructors. j\lr. C. W. Green, the farm superintendent,. 

 has no superi(^>r in the South as a practical farmer. Air. George 

 W. Carver, the hend of the jigi'ienlt nr;il depiii-tment, is a graduate 

 of the lowii St;ite ( Vdlege. I'o mv mind, no more xalnable text- 

 book for Sonthern scholars could l)e furnished thnn :i little pam- 

 phlet which this man has recently issued, telling how he i-aiscd be- 



