l, pushed the institution forward in its marvelous
career.

At Talladega, Ala., in 1867, the Association purchased a large
building, with forty acres of land attached, and the young men were
set to tilling the soil under systematic training. In 1877 the Winsted
Farm, of 160 acres, was secured, and ten years later the Newton Farm
was added, the whole tract now containing 270 acres. On this large
farm is carried forward every variety of agricultural industry in the
preparation of the soil, in drainage and irrigation, rotation of crops
and the raising of stock. An institute for farmers of the county is
statedly held under the College auspices, and annual meetings of
several days' length are conducted in three or four of the counties of
the State. The varied industries of the shop are kept up with the home
industries of cooking, laundry, sewing and nursing. A printing office
publishes a little monthly which is very creditably printed. Similar
periodicals are published in nearly all our large institutions.

At Tougaloo, Miss., the Association purchased 500 acres of land in
1869 and subsequently added another tract, until now the whole domain
embraces 650 acres. A great feature of the institution is its
industrial work. Here has been developed the full range of farming
industries, stock raising and the cultivation of the various crops
adapted to the soil, together with shops for mechanical work,
embracing carpentry, blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, steam-sawing,
sewing and other branches of domestic economy. Strawberries are raised
and shipped to the Chicago market.

Our normal schools at Memphis, Tenn., Macon, Ga., and Williamsburg,
Ky., have carpentry, printing and other industrial training for young
men, and training in the various arts of home life for the young
women. At Wilmington, Savannah, Thomasville, Athens, Marion, Mobile,
Pleasant Hill and other normal, graded and common schools, the young
women are trained in all things needed in making comfortable and
pleasant homes.

In our Indian schools industries are taught and practiced. At the
Santee Agency a tract of nearly 500 acres gives room that is well used
for farming and stock-raising, and well-arranged shops give employment
in carpentry, blacksmithing and printing and other avocations. The
"Word Carrier," a monthly publication, is not surpassed in neatness of
printing by any paper that comes to this office. In other Indian
schools various industries are taught,