Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-23
Hampton, Phoebus and Old Point
NEED EARNESTNESS,
MOI LOT OF CLOTHES
Or. Robertson, of Canada, Gives
Hampton Agricultural Students
Advice.


IL. James w Robertson, principal
OF Macdonald College. Ontario, Cana
da, spoke yesterday 10 the Hampton
| Institute students who are taking 4
course In farming AT Shellbanks, SIX
, miles from Hampton. lie said:
I'VE have a good many boys who
are learning how to become farmers
| ask them when they first come what
they have brought with them and
what they expect 10 get cut Of their
work Now what should they bring?
1t isn'e trunk full of clothes;
clothes would be cumbersome. They
should bring earnestenss. We haven't
any idlers, for the land needs la
borer and a worker. not a loafer. we
want the boys TO bring good temper.
Cheerfulne.ss is the mother OF kind
ness and kindness is a good thing
TO get out of mother earth.
"ldleness make Il man discontende~.
An education should make you CT
busy. The man who carries the big
gest loads is the happiest. You should
labor and work, not TO escape work.
Il don't know OF any more pleas
ant land than right here in Virginia.
You have very moderate climate and
a chance for good crops. FARMING III
this country is not a mean job. II
man looks at his crops and sees sun
shine in them. he knows they are
good. when l wind up my watch
and il turns the hands around. The
corn stalks are like that. for they
wind up the strength OF the sunshine
by and by the corn goes into the
man and woman and gives them
strength.
Farming is an honorable and pro-
titable calling and there is always a
great demand fer food three times
day. There are three things We
should know about. The first is soil.
Learn all you can about ii. for soil
is not dead stuff II may have the
remains Of dead things-leaves and
bones of animals. fer eXample-but
in the soil itself is a great good-the
bacteria of life. Mex; YOU must learn
about seeds and crops. Give. every |
thing chance to grow. whether 1t
be pig, horse. CT a boy. Give eV-
erything its proper nourishment
"Ycu are on the right lines in this
Institution. hope that you will be |
able 70 benefit ten other farmers when /
you go back &c your own communi-
ties"
DIR. Robertson spoke TO the agri-
mo al cNh00l
at one O'Clock yesterday. He en-
phasized the value CT men knowing |
a great deal about the soil upon which /
they wished 10 grow their crops. He
showed that there was a great deal
of educational value in raising gram
from selected seed He pointed oft
That the effect CT school gardening |
upon students throughout the coun-
try was far-reaching.
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller. Jr,, spoke
yesterday to the Hampton Institute
students, who are learning how 10
farm at Shellbanks. He said:
NC education. however advanced II
may be. is an education. If 1t does not
teach and fit man to do the tasks
which Won are doing here II any man
thinks it is a disgrace to be connected
with farming. he Is greatly mistaken.
Good farming will give you the re-
spect and honor of other men. shall
hope TO hear as the years go by that
you are putting into practical use
the things YOU are learning here. and
! hope you will teach others TO do
these practical things"
Yesterday morning Mr.. and Mrs
Rockefeller visited the Whittier
school. MIR. Rockefeller delivered
short address to the students on the
value OF obs dience-