The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-11-09
"a ,SISSIPPI MATTERS
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS
n BY KATE MARKHAM POWER.

state Textile school.

sulendid new department OF our A.
= q college, the textile school. and
~ confident that within that new
'..sr.ure lies the key by which
-., doors to success and fame and
.,.alth will be opened to the eager
..ge Of our home-taught youths.
IL influence on the future of this
c,ote and this people cannot be esti-
lated and we rejoice at every new
aroof of the wisdom Of Its establish
ment
mt there is another department Of
.his great institution that is doing
and will continue to do as much for
IN peopIe individually as the great
.sytie school will do for the State
i whole. This is the school where
4 our young people learn to love the
seience of agriculture and horticult-
ure From this knowledge will come
sbIity to manage not only the great
rlantations for which Mississippi has
slvays been famous, but the splendid
,ruck farms which are proving SO re-
munerative, and the orchards, which
oueht to land doubtless will in little
vhile) rival the great. fruit section
X Georgia, which has accomplished
such marvela in the past decade.
Georgia's peach crop alone, exclusive
n kindred interests, such as can
neries, box factories, other fruit, etc.,
vas worth last season $2,000,000. 1t
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, and,
on small scale, his orchard and vine
ward. The authorities are working
hard to give every student the knowl-
edge and experience necessary for
this greatly needed home work. In
the strawberry gardens alone this
wear the boys will cultivate and study
200 varieties, and similar work will
be done with other berries and fruits.
We would less often hear of fail
ures, mortgaged places, unhappy
homes, disconnected children and
oyerworked parents If our young peo-
Die Just starting out in life under
stood how to start. They need not
live as too many small householders
and even farmers, with broad acres
all around them, do live throughout
the South-a life of painful toll to
make "a CROP" while trying to SUD
sist on a diet of bread and meat"
with few shabby vegetables, no ber-
ries, no melons, no fruit, no delicious
garden truck" Outlines no COW to
supply the needful nourishment to the
children. A better time must come.
with all the efforts that are being |
made to that end. The young people
who thoroughly understand the soil
in their gardens and are willing to
work and to putin practice the things
they have learned at the college can
be independent Of every source of
supply save the staple grocer. And
with this day will come the dawn Of
better times in Mississippi. Then un-
lovely homes will be the exception,
and dissatisfied men and disconnected
women will not be found, unless it be
where naught save brick and NOR
tar grow"
A graduate of Prof. McKay's de-
partment must have learned to love
the work that brings him SO close
In touch with nature and loving it,
be Yields his best in it, and will try
70 have he best the land affords.
Hence we feel safe in promising the
girl who marries one of these young
men that from her "own vine and fig
Tree" she may gather the seasons
ARREST fruits and enjoy the cream of
life at home, while her less fortunate
neighbors scuffle along on skim
milk diet.
In the light of recent discoveries,
We feel constrained to alter bit Ham
cts remark to Horatio, and use it in
addressing the doubling Thomas class
hus: There are more things in Mis-
issippis soil and streams than are
lreamt of in your philosophy. Scarce
week goes by without the fresh dis
overy within the soil once deemed
It for cotton only of some new quail
~ that must eventually prove of ben
ut to us in our efforts to get tout OF
ne ruts." Only last week the men
Who are cutting the channel from
'ascagoula river to Horn Island car
led to Scranton samples Of strange
nd beautiful clay through which the
redge is passing. This clay is of
Many colors, the samples exhibited
eng OF greenish gray. When taken
rom the water it becomes extremely
ard (seemingly like stone), but is
apable of being cut into any shape
nth a penknife. The chips cut from !
lese Jumps Of clay are not brittle,
" are more like chips of wood; the {
lay is heavy, very hard, smooth and
axes an exquisite polish. Where the ,
nannel passes through beds of this
emarkable clay the walls are per-
sctly clear, smooth and firm, and do s
Ot wash in the heaviest seas. Sam l
les have been sent to the Smith |
onian Institute and to various pot ,
'rles. and it is believed that beauti-
y things and useful may be evolved
ON this treasure, which has been Q
lealously hidden all these years by
Old Miss" t
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ned most common fowl Cor, as J
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