to students attending the institute proper an academic course covering three years, fourteen trade courses, and several post-graduate courses. The academic students attend school during the day, while the trade students attend night school for their academic training.

The following schedule of subjects and time periods in each week will give a somewhat definite idea of the course and the relative. amount of time given to agriculture:

The academic term is thirty weeks; a recitation period is forty minutes.

From this it will be seen that each pupil, trade as well as academic, is required to take some instruction in agriculture. This instruction in agriculture reaches down into the Whittier School, each child there receiving instruction in the subject two periods of thirty minutes each per week.

In addition to this required agriculture, the institute offers a threeyear post-graduate course, also special elective courses of one year in several branches of the subject.

Hampton requires all of her pupils to study agriculture, not because she expects or desires that they all become farmers, but because (1) she knows that the great majority of the negro race in this country are located on the soil; (2) she believes that rural life in the South is the most desirable for the masses of the race; (3) she realizes that the present rural life of the negro is not what it should be; (4) she knows that the majority of her pupils come from the rural districts and it is her desire that they return to their people prepared to teach and help them to live better, economically, as well as socially and morally; (5) she knows that the majority of her pupils do go back to their people and that a great majority of them, whether they go as farmers, teachers, mechanics, or professional men and women obtain part of their subsistence directly from the soil; (6) she believes that the publicschool teacher can be a most powerful factor in the future uplift of the agriculture of the country, by teaching the children the elementary principles which underlie successful farming.

The headquarters of Hampton's agricultural department are located

FIG. 2.-INSTRUCTION IN AGRICULTURE FOR NEGROES-HAMPTON INSTITUTE, THE DAIRY.