BIENNIAL REPORT AGRICULTURE -OF THE Trustees, President and Other Officers OF THE MISSISSIPPI Agricultural & Mechanical College FOR THE YEARS 1892 AND 1893. Published for the Information of the Legislature JACKSON, MISS.. THE CLARION. LEDGER PUBLISHING COMPANY OF THE Trustees, President and Other Officers -OF THE MISSISSIPPI Agricultural & Mechanical College, FOR THE YEARS 1892 AND 1893. Published for the Information of the Legislature JACKSON, MISS.. THE CLARION-LEDGER PUBLISHING COMPANY, REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Hon. John M. Stone, Governor, and Ex-Officio President of the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi A. & M. College: We have the honor to transmit to your Excellency reports of the president and faculty of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the years 1892 and 1893. To the full report of the president and his recommendations, the report of the appraising committee, and the reports of the heads of the departments, showing the needs of their respective departments, we call your special attention. A more thorough equipment in several departments is a pressing necessity in order to increase their efficiency and usefulness, and to place them in better shape to meet the hopes and expectations of the people of the State. The industries of the State are almost exclusively agricultural and mechanical, and the claim of so large a body of our citizens, especially in this hour of unparalleled depression, constitute the strongest possible appeal for the complete equipment of every department of the college tending to the promotion of more enlightened and prosperous systems of agriculture and the mechanic arts. The wisdom of the past liberal policy of the State in fostering the cause of industrial education is fully vindicated by the new lines of industrial development, the natural fruit and legitimate outgrowth of the educational system of the A. & M. College. Nowhere more than in agriculture and mechanic arts is it true that "knowledge is power," and in this age of keen and active competition, if Mississippi would keep step in industrial development with her sister States, this can be accomplished only through a system of education which not only cultivates in the young men of the State a taste and fondness for industrial pursuits, but also thoroughly equips them with that knowledge and special training so necessary to win success. We commend the president and faculty for their efficiency, earnestness, and fidelity. Very respectfully, H. M. STREET, W. B. MONTGOMERY, Executive Committee. |