d, and in it are pleasant
accommodations for the needlework and cooking classes. Seventy girls
have had class instruction throughout the year in these branches. In
Berkshire Cottage is also carried on the work for which the building
was specially designed--the model housekeeping. When the rooms are all
furnished eight girls at a time, in two sets of four, will keep house
for two months at a time, gaining a practical knowledge of household
economies. This year sixteen girls have had this most important
training, the last four in the new cottage. Of this four, three were
in the graduating Normal class. The exhibits of the cooking and sewing
classes at Commencement, consisting of cakes, biscuits, confectionery,
etc., and a great variety of well made and useful garments, were
highly praised, and a large number sold to visitors. Few schools have
better facilities for the practical and most important work of
developing homemakers than has Tougaloo. Upon the trained young women
who can make good homes depends very largely the future of the Negro
race.

AGRICULTURE.

From the earliest history of the school there has been attention paid
to agriculture, and each year sees development in the acreage under
cultivation and the quantity of produce raised. This year nearly all
the fresh meat and the milk, sweet potatoes, molasses, vegetables,
etc., needed by the large boarding department, have been raised on the
farm, and some things have been marketed, besides the large amount of
corn and hay needed upon so large a plantation. The need of a special
agricultural building, to cost about $2,000, in which those students
who work upon the farm can live, and where they may have special class
instruction, is greatly needed.

MANUAL TRAINING.

The Manual Training Department has also this year received new
impetus. It includes work in wood and iron, and industrial drawing.
The methods are those of the most modern and most approved schools for
manual training. Sixty boys have had the woodworking, and twenty the
forging. Industrial drawing has been the new feature of the year.
There are twenty new and complete sets of drawing tools. For the lower
grades there is elementary or "one view drawing," and in the normal
grades both boys and girls have advanced work that includes the
fundamentals of machine and architectural drawing. Orthographic and
isometric projection are taught. The exhibit of this drawing work was
remarkably fine, and elicit