Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — TO RAISE COTTON IN AFRICA. [ARTICLE]

TO RAISE COTTON IN AFRICA.

Negrora from America Will Instruct Natives la the Art. To teach the natives of Africa the art . of raisin* cotton, four young colored men from Booker T. Washington’s school at Tuskegee, Ala., sailed from New York a few days since for the west coast of the Dark Continent. With them they carried ten bushels of cotton seed, a cotton gin and a full outfit of agricultural tools. Their work will be carried on under the auspices of the German government. Togo, a colony on the west coast of Africa, about 80,000 square miles in area, noft)i of the Gulf of Guiuea and lying between Dahomey and Ashantee, Is the deatinltion-of'these pioneers. From this part of Africa the greatest number of slaTes were brought. The ultimate destination of the party is a settlement sixty miles inland called Miaahohe. Togo baa a native population estimated at 1,000,000.