Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-11-09

We are tOuuQcuL lldI N4thlh IAiNN "
departure lies the key by which
many doors to success and fame ana
wealth will be opened to the eager
gaze of our home-taught youths.
Its influence on the future of TINS
State and this people cannot be estl-
mated, and we rejoice at every new
proof of the wisdom Of its establish.
ment
But there is another department OF
this great institution that is doing
and will continue to do as much lot
our people individually as the great
textile school will do for the state
as a whole. This is the school where
in our young people learn to love the
science of agriculture and hortlcult-
ure. From this knowledge will come
ability to manage not only the great
plantations for which Mississippi has
always been famous, but the splendid
truck farms which are proving SO re-
munerative. and the orchards, when
ought to (and doubtless will in little
while) rival the great fruit section
of Georgia, which has accomplished
such marvels in the past decade
Georgias peach crop alone exclusive
of kindred interests, such as can
peries box factories, other fruit, etc"
was worth last season $2,OOOrOO0' II
does not fall to the lot of every grad
nate of the A. & M. to manage these
large interests but it should be the
LOT Of each man who has studied
there to have his own garden, ana,
on a small scale, his orchard and vine
ward. The authorities are WORKING
hard to give every student the knoWi'
edge and experience necessary LOT
this greatly needed home work. II
the strawberry gardens alone thlS
wear the BOYS will cultivate and study
200 varieties. and similar work wal
be done with other berries and fruits
We would less often hear Of talI
ures, mortgaged places, unhappy
homes. discontented children an'
oyerworked parents If our young pee
ple lust starting out in life under
= stood how to start, They need no
live as too many small householder
= and even farmers, with broad acre
All around them, do live throughou
g the South-a life of painful toll /
\ make "a crop" while trying to SUI
h sist on diet of bread and meat
: with few shabby vegetables, no be
: ries. no melons, no fruit, no dellciol
J. garden truck" ofttimes no COW
supply the needful nourishment TO u
+. children. A better time must com
with all the efforts that are bell
e made to that end The young peop
who thoroughly understand the Sc
in their gardens and are willing
work and to put in practice the thin
Is thev have learned at the college c'
I be independent Of every source
u supply save the staple grocer A
N with this day will come the dawn
=. - better times in Mississippi. Then
- lovely homes will be the eXcepti(
n. and dissatisfied men and discomfort
-. women will not be found, unless 1t
,c- where naught save brick and III
ed tar grow"
in A graduate of Prof. Mckay's
lily nartment must have learned to L
the work that brings him so cl
m in touch with nature and loving
ok he Yields his best in it, and VIII
500 TO have he best the land affords
re- Hence we feel safe in promising
'eu eir who marries one Of these yo'
lel men that from her own vine ana
tree she may gather the seas(
-. fairest fruits and enjoy the cream
~ life at home. while her less tortur
,cl, neighbors scufle along on a 81
de- milk diet,
u" In the light OF recent ulscoNel
u we feel constrained to alter DIT II
.eu, let's remark to Horatio, and use
lltu addressing the doubling Thomas c
- TINS. There are more things IN
ro, sissippis soil and streams than
"a dreamt of in your philosophy Sc
mn. a week goes by without the fresh
covery within the soil once dee
i've. ft for cotton only of some new
this itv that must eventually prove oil
per- of IN Ms in our efforts to get 'ot
,he ruts" Only last week the
AZ who are cutting the channel
:" paecagoula river to Horn Island
lin riad TO Scranton samples Of str
= and beautiful clay through when
dredge Is passing. This clay !
many colors, the samples eXhl
,om, being Of greenish gray. When |
was from the water it becomes eXtre
Irch, hard (seemingly like stone) b
)uer capable of being cut into any
der with a penknife. The chips cut
re these Jumps of clay are not Dl
Hem but arc more like chips OF wood
CLAW is heavy very hard, smooth
takes an exquisite polish. Wher
IUN. channel passes through beds OF
remarkable clay the walls are
anu fectly clear, smooth and hrm' al
not wash in the heaviest seas
nles have been sent to the
eonian Institute and to various
.sona tories and 1t is believed that D
), Co. Ful things and useful may be eN
> from this treasure, which mas
Wv SO iealously hidden all these yea
M q. "Old Miss"
,ster- The woodpeeker is ordinaril
miles teemed a most common fowl I
n oc- some of McComb City's young
steep ers would spell it, fouD. These
hunters would doubtless tell
should the subject come up, Una
i. Ia "scansorial specie of the Plcusg
com indigenous to the country aroul
j in Comb City, came higL'-at
re- when found and shot on some
,signs "posted" land. one Oh th,s1 ,,i,,aa Nv
Unit headed "peckers was ,,nn m',ne n,er
ly the days ago py nnd sons tns Land Land helm
a dis hunting mlp, ,r,ator ~ determined &c
prove GU emnle ene Of them. Hence tn
e rad an an Ia ,oree nrice of s21 was put
II, re- th;s, dead woodpecker by the
} have Truly. some birds are worth
h and dead than alive.