But I want now especially to urge one vital necessity, even to the continuance of one of our most important means of helping this people. Last year good friends in the North gave us $3,566.52, and some of the instructors advanced $2,000. With this amount property valued now at about $5,000 has been purchased, and an Industrial Department, including farming, carpentering, printing, and house-work of all kinds, has been carried on one year. By this outlay sixty scholars have earned a large sum in payment of their school expenses. They have also learned to do these various kinds of work in a systematic and intelligent manner. But in the growth of character the good has been greatest. The young people have acquired earnestness, self-dependence and enterprise. During the vacation they are disseminating this practical knowledge and their spirit through the whole State. The Southern Educational Society, composed of some of the foremost educators of the South, recently pronounced “industrial education the hope of the South.” It is certainly more necessary and more promising among the colored people than among the whites. Already we can see the benefits of the department in the improving material condition of the people in the country about, in better and larger crops, cultivated more skilfully with better implements, etc. The Agricultural Department is one of the most useful, and it is, also, one of the most remunerative parts of our work. At present we are obliged to go three-fourths of a mile by the road to reach the farm; $1,000 would buy a piece of land connecting the farm directly with the college buildings. This would save annually a large percentage of the cost in time required to reach the farm, to say nothing of the use of the land. Who will make this very essential addition to “Winsted Farm”? The most profitable part of the farm-work is the dairy, and raising beef for the College boarding department. We shall keep fifty or sixty cattle continually, but we have now no barn. The working stock, the implements and the feed must have a shelter. We have nothing but sheds made of old lumber, which we fear the autumn storms will destroy, with much property within. Besides, if the farm is to be, as it should be, a model to the colored people, we must not leave everything out in the rain and cold, as is universally the case in the South. There is to be held, in connection with the department, this fall, the first Industrial Fair ever held by the colored people. We expect it to be a means of education to 5,000 people. The barn should be ready for their inspection and information. Fifteen hundred dollars will give the farm the barn it needs, and furnish work to a number of young men, by which they will learn the use of tools, under our very skilful carpenter, and be able to pay their expenses in school. If friends could appreciate how necessary these things are, we certainly should have them at once. * * * * * TEXAS.