The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-31

teemed above the label. a cigar box. Some
within my hearing remember well when the fibre
alone had value. The seed, stalk blades and root
now have their uses. and each brings an income
to the South, results attained through the work
Of men like those out at the experiment station
who teaching the boys and girls from the
farm how to mix brain work with muscle. The
history of wild birds and their usefulness to the
farmer their migrations and habits, Of bees and
insects. useful and destructive, and the thousand
phases of life presented on every side are subjects
for study on the farm.
In the field the forest, the orchards, the gar
den in the milk house and in the poultry yard
there are many things TO know. and in finding
them out there viii be Joy well as usefulness
and profit. There are many things to learn yet
about the poultry business. The industrious hen
has representative in this city OF which any
State could well be proud. We printed in a re-
cent issue of the Southern Field" a publication
in the interest of the Land and Industrial De
partment of the Southern Railway, a photograph
of a wagon load Of eggs. piled in like potatoes
which hauled dozen or more miles to your
city and not an egg broken. This leads to the
idea that Knoxville believes that good wagon
roads are essential to high class municipal pro-
gress and existence
How is the Southern farmer to enjoy his ad-
vantages2 BY education, by studying natures
laws and directing natures energies. The farm
ers Of Eastern Tennessee are fortunate in having
at Knoxville an institution for the farming class
as the medical school is for doctors and the law
school for lawyers. No one viii question that
agriculture is an ancient and honorable calling.
Indeed it is the most important vocation of man.
Except for the farmer there would be no town.
no city and no industry. Were the farmers of
the world TO fail in their crops for single year
the cities would be swept bare Of life by the hor
rors OF starvation. Agriculture is important in
this material sense and education can lift it to
most refined and cultured profession. wherein
brain and hand unite in winning profit and
pleasure from the soil.
By the intelligent use Of the multitude Of ap-
planes common to-day. farm life can be reliev-
ed of the old-time drudgery. By scientific rota-
ton of crops and right tiIlage the land can be
induced to give best results and be made to main
tain its fertility. / hope the farmers who hear
me viii not be content with the common school
education for their children. while the children
of the professional people enjoy technical train
ing. The children of the farmer are entitled to
the special training provided. Just as teachers.
doctors and lawyers are provided with technical
equipment for their calIings.
PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR FARM WORK.
The agricultural college is engaged in great
human effort, against waste OF soil constituents.
against waste of by-products that can be profta-
bly, utilized and against the waste of true happi-
ness. which the toiler on the farm can have more
of than any other class. When I tell you that
$1,000 children go breakfastless to school every
morning in New York City, because parents do
not have food for them. tell you something that
is not duplicated in any one OF the millions Of
farm homes in America wish applications for
admission to this experimental school at Knox
vile, and similar schools in all of States.
would multiply until the boys and girls OF every
Southern farm could be given the training nee
essary to make their calling what it should be.
This school out here, of which the citizens of
Tennessee should be proud. k not merely train
ing the youth of the State along mere bookish
and literary lines. but it is giving a broad and
practical side 10 the learning it seeks to impart.
Its students go forth fitted to stand at the front
and know what TO do in the battle OF life. They
are equipped for high and useful citizenship.
They are in demand on the cotton. grain and
stock farm, and in the gardens. orchards and
poultry yards They are prepared to make good
homes for themselves. Let the farmers avail
themselves of what is so literally provided for
their boys and girls, and when they do. agricul-
ture viii come TO it's own not only in exploiting
the possibilities of farm production but in ex-
erting its full and important share in public af-
fairs.