You need more race pride. Cultivate this as you would your crops.
It will mean a step forward.

You need a good home. Save all you can. Get your home, and that
will bring you nearer citizenship.

You can supply all these needs. When will you begin? Every moment
of delay is a loss.

HOW TO BECOME PROSPEROUS.

1. Keep no more than one dog.

2. Stay away from court.

3. Buy no snuff, tobacco and whisky.

4. Raise your own pork.

5. Raise your vegetables.

6. Put away thirty cents for every dollar you spend.

7. Keep a good supply of poultry. Set your hens. Keep your chickens
until they will bring a good price.

8. Go to town on Thursday instead of Saturday. Buy no more than you
need. Stay in town no longer than necessary.

9. Starve rather than sell your crops before you raise them. Let
your mind be fixed on that the first day of January, and stick to
that every day in the year.

10. Buy land and build you a home.

The various states are beginning to establish institutions in which
agriculture and industrial training may be given. Among these may be
mentioned that of Alabama at Normal, and of Mississippi at Westside.
Alabama has also established an experiment station in connection with
the Tuskegee Institute.

In Texas there is an interesting movement among the Negro farmers known
as the "Farmers' Improvement Society." The objects are:

1. Abolition of the credit system.
2. Stimulate improvements in farming.
3. Co-operative buying.
4. Sickness and life insurance.
5. Encouragement of purchase of land and home.

The Association holds a fair each year which is largely attended.
According to the Galveston _News_ of October 12, 1902, the society has
about 3,000 members, who own some 50,000 acres of land, more than 8,000
cattle and 7,000 horses and mules. This organization, founded and
maintained entirely by Negroes, promises much in many ways. In October,
1902, a fair was held in connection with the school at Calhoun, Ala.,
with 83 exhibitors and 416 entries, including 48 from the school and a
very creditable showing of farm products and live stock.

Besides these general lines which seem to be of promise it is in place
to mention a couple of attempts to get the Negroes to purchase land.
There have been not a few persons who have sold land to them on the
installment plan with the expe