s certainly
an extensive enterprise. Logs are brought up from the
Carolinas, and boards are sawn out, and in the turning
department fancy fixtures are made for houses, piazzas, etc.

There are two farms. The Normal School farm, and the
Hemenway farm, which is four miles from the Institute. On
the former seventy tons of hay and about one hundred and
twenty tons of ensilaged fodder-corn were raised last year,
besides potatoes, corn, rye, oats, asparagus, and early
vegetables. Five hundred thousand bricks were also made. The
Hemenway farm, of five hundred acres, is in charge of a
graduate and his wife. Its receipts reach nearly three
thousand dollars a year, and the farm promises to do
invaluable service in time towards sustaining this gigantic
work. All of the industries do not pay. For example, the
deficit in the printing office last year was about seven
hundred dollars. This is due to the employment and training
of student labor. The primary aim is not the making of money
but the advancement of the student. After they learn, they
are good, profitable workmen; but they then leave the
Institute to engage in the outside world in the battle of
life. On the farm is a large number of stock, milch cows and
calves, beef cattle, horses and colts, mules, oxen, sheep
and hogs--in all nearly five hundred heads.

In these various industries, the farm, saw mill, machine
shop, knitting, carpentering, harness making, tinsmithing,
blacksmithing, shoe-making, wheel-wrighting, tailoring,
sewing, printing, etc., over five hundred students were
engaged in 1883. They earned over thirty thousand
dollars--an average of seventy dollars each. There is no
question about the fact that this is a "beehive" into which
a bee can enter, if accepted, with nothing but his soul and
his muscle, and get a good education!

Professor Stewart's article carries upon its face the proper reply to
Mr. Magoun's apprehensions and my own deductions, and is the very
strongest argument for a complete and immediate recasting of the
underlying principles upon which nearly all colored colleges are
sustained and operated.

Money contributed for eleemosynary purposes is a sacred trust, and
should so be applied as to net the greatest good not only to the
beneficiary but the donor. The primary object of educatio