ary school instruction. Nothing is more popular in
the South than the practical limitation of educational opportunities for
the negro people to the lines of manual training and the reserve of all
the possibilities of a higher education to the white, dominant race. A
prominent Southern journalist has expressed this view in the following
terms: "A little education is all the negro needs. Let him learn the
rudiments--to read, and to write, and to cipher, and be made to mix that
knowledge with some useful labor. His only resource is manual labor." But
one of the foremost colored men in the South has well said: "There is no
defence or security for any, except in the highest intelligence and
development of all. If anywhere there are efforts tending to curtail the
fullest growth of the negro, let these efforts be turned into stimulating,
encouraging, and making him the most useful and intelligent citizen."

The American Missionary Association, in addition to its general and
industrial school training, has opened the doors of a higher education to
all who seek to enter in. The fruition of this opportunity now appears at
the very juncture when a call is coming from among the millions of the
back country for free churches, pure churches, churches which emphasize
virtue and intelligence. Our great schools are bringing to us young men
and young women thoroughly fitted to go preaching and teaching among these
millions. But how shall they go, except they be sent?

Talladega College, Ala.

THE INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT.
AGRICULTURE.

Edgar A Bishop, B.S., Superintendent.

The work in the Agricultural Department the past year has been the most
satisfactory of any in its history. The young men of the Junior
Preparatory and Normal classes with several special students have taken
the classroom work, using Gulley's "First Lessons in Agriculture" as a
textbook. Among the topics considered are the following:

Origin, formation, and composition of soil. Composition of the plant. How
plants feed and grow. Fertilization of the seed, and improvement of
variety. Plant food in the soil and how developed. Preparing land for the
crop. Cultivation of crop. Principles of drainage and irrigation. Manures
and commercial fertilizers. Rotation of crops. Special diversified
farming. Farm economy. Food and manure value of crops. How to propagate
plants--pruning, grafting, budding, etc. Stock breeding: feeding and care;
how to select for special pu