The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 169, May 1896, U. of Illinois Press

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MAY · I 896 As I stated in a former letter I will have some pretty extensive collections along various economic lines to bring down and it requires some little time to get them ready and cary my course of study too; however if vitaly important I can arrange to come at your opening or shortly after. Please send me your little publication The Southern Letter, and charge the same to me and I will settle for it when I come down. Or any other paper that notes the progress of the proposed building and the news in general concerning the school. May the Lord pour out His choicest blessings upon you, and your work. Yours for Christ Geo. W. Carver ALS Con. :~6 BTW Papers DLC. To John Henry Washington ''Tuskegee, Ala.] May, ~ I, 1896 Mr. J. H. Washington: ~ wish to call your attention to several important matters in connection with our farming. These matters I wish you not only to consider yourself but to lay them before Mr. C. W. Greene. First, I call your attention to the increased expense in connection with our farming. Formerly the farm manager had the management of the brick yard, stable, fruit growing, etc. Within the last few years we have taken from the farm manager the brick yard, the stable and the fruit growing. All this has greatly added to the school's expense. These changes have been made with a view of giving the farm manager more time to devote more directly to farming, especially to the growing of vegetables. While there has been an improvement in the number of vegetables grown, still we are far from the point of satisfaction. One weakness is, that there is not enough of forcing vegetables, I mean we go too much on the principle of the common farmers all through the South rather than on the principle of wide awake truck gardeners. Hereafter I wish it to be thoroughly understood that we are to plant seeds for vegetables earlier and if the seeds are lost on account of the cold weather the school will bear the expense. It is a ~69