MIXING BRAINS WITH THE SOIL.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON says that the colored graduates of Tuskegee have raised over two hundred and fifty bushels of sweet potatoes from an acre of ground in the same locality where the uneducated colored man raises less than fifty bushels to the acre. Mr. Washington attributes the great difference in the crops to the knowledge of the chemistry of the soil which the educated negro has acquired. He says that the white farmers in the neighborhood respect the colored graduates, because of their superior knowledge and skill, and that they come to them for progressive ideas in regard to farming, building, and all sorts of things. This seems to be pretty strong evidence that the kind of education given at Tuskegee comes nearer to solving the negro question than anything else that has been suggested.—Selected.