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the opportunities to the best possible advantage. The academic
courses should, in a large measure, be discontinued, and its
resources devoted entirely to the promulgation of agricultural
knowledge and skill. The purpose of the College should be to '
make farmers. The education of farmers7 sons., desiring to
follow other vocations, is taken care of by other institutions of
learning. "

How true it is that successful farming only follows when
the mind is trained as well as the hands.

COLORED SCHOOLS.

In some parts of pur State the colored schools are kept open
only a few months of the year. The distribution of the colored
school fund being insufficient to accomplish. much where the
colored population is a large proportion of the whole popula-
tion, and the local taxes collected are insufficient to supplement
this distribution enough to enable the School Boards of these
counties to continue the school sessions sufficiently long to pro-
vide proper education.

For the general welfare of the State, it is important that
these people should receive such education as will enable them
to properly meet the demands of citizenship. Hence, there
should be some readjustment of the distribution of the school
fund to correct the present condition.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH—SANITARY SURVEYS.

We were able in 1914 to secure a co-operative sanitary survey
of Dorchester County by the United States Public Health
Service, and the State Department of Health. This survey,
beginning July 2. 0th and ending about November 1st, was the
introductory chapter to the operative history of that new legis-
lation which authorized the division, of the State into sanitary
districts, each having a full-time Deputy State Health Officer.
In 1915, a similar co-operative survey was made in Anne
Arundel County. The essential feature of these surveys was a
house-to-house visitation and consultation on health matters
with particular reference to the disposal of human excrement