August 5, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



173 



work as assistant managers, or in , 

 charge of dairies, cow barns, poultry 

 plants and tlie like for othor i)io|jle. 

 We have some who go to good places 

 and are unsatisfactory. A study of 

 these cases discloses the fact that the 

 trouble is in the boy himself. When 

 doing his farm labor he was not think- 

 ing about his worls, not trying to learn 

 the reasons why things arc done. 

 When working he was thinking too 

 much of when the bell will ring. Such 

 a man can never be anything but an 

 •eye servant until he changes his whole 

 mental attitude towards lite itself. Un- 

 fortunately men having this attitude 

 of life are inclined to grow moie un- 

 happy as they advance in ago. 



Some Hindrances 

 Another hinderance in the develop- 

 ment of a boy is that he takes himself 

 too seriously. His difficulties to him 

 seem exceptional; he can hardly real- 

 ize that others have had the same ex- 

 periences and overcome them by virtue 

 ■of will power, energy and efficiency, 

 •which are all factors that are within 

 a bov. He thinks other boys have help 

 from' outside instead of from qualities 

 within his own self. As a rule the boy 

 -who takes up an agricultural co\irse in 

 order to do more and better work will 

 succeed, but the fellow who is studying 

 to find a method of doing loss work 

 -ftill be disappointed and unsatisfac- 

 tory. 



Another difficulty which schools ex- 

 perience in sending out their boys is 

 their attitude towards others and 

 towards their work. They often feel 

 that they have been to school, are edu- 

 cated above their fellow workers, and 

 if there is any work that is pleasanter 

 and of a higher grade they think that 

 their employer should give such work 

 to them. The employer, however, al- 

 ways gives this special work to some 

 tried, loyal employee whom he has had 

 with him for a long time. Graduates 

 fall into this error of taking them- 

 selves too seriously, feeling that their 

 education lifts them above doing the 

 general labor that is performed by the 

 common laborer. They want at all 

 times to have something which em- 

 ploys their special talents. In the 

 work of a farm such conditions are not 

 possible. When there is nothing but 

 common labor to be performed, no 

 school graduate should object: this 

 gives deep dissatisfaction to both em- 

 ployee and employer. 



It is most difficult to make labor 

 popular with many young boys, to 

 teach them to love labor for labor's 

 sake, to have them realize iliat no 

 honest labor is of itself degrading, and 

 that it is the man who degrades labor 

 instead of the labor degrading the 

 man. There are many problems con- 

 nected with agricultural schools and 

 colleges that are yet in an experi- 

 mental state of development. Too 

 many people have a contempt of the 

 past and are foolishly credulous of 

 quick improvement, hopeful of discov- 

 ering universal panaceas and confident 

 of the success of every new and untried 

 thing. 



The largest element of chance or or 

 error is the human equipment. The 

 results of agricultural science have al- 

 ready afforded marvelous assistance to 

 the farming interests of our country. 

 WLen one realizes that U has taken 

 five hundred million years tn shape 

 this earth and make it a fit habitation 



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IN HOUSTON, TEXAS 



SECRET.\RV Jiill., Vol M, 



111 his newly acciuiri'il I'alm Heucli iidmir- 



ing 11 beautiful lilooinliig Crepe .Myrtle 



In the Convention Ganlen, 



A TEXAS GREETING. 



Editor Hokticui.tire: 



Dear Sir:— Vice-President R. C. 

 Kerr of the Society of Ainerican 

 Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- 

 ists has been doing yeoman service in 

 getting up "pep" and interest in the 

 coming convention at Houston, and 

 while we are all very sure that Hous- 

 ton will prove an ideal host, 1 would 

 like to remind all florists who con- 

 template attending the convention 

 that Houston is in Texas and not 

 Texas in Houston, and that the rest of 

 us. located in different parts of the 

 State, would also like to have a hand 

 in entertaining you. It is only a mat- 

 ter of two hundred miles to San An- 

 tonio, with its missions, soldiers, 

 chile and hot tamales; only a short 

 distance to Austin, our state capitol, 

 and although El Paso is not exactly in 

 our near vicinity a trip to that thriv- 

 ing border town would he of extreme 

 interest to everyone — incidentally it 

 would be perfectly safe, although 



Mexico lies just on the other side of 

 the Rio Grande. We believe that a 

 general exodus to Texas will follow 

 the convention, but we don't want you 

 to concentrate in Houston. There is 

 plenty of room for all, and the more 

 of you who come the better we will 

 like it. 



The cotton fields are in full bloom, 

 fruits of all kinds are here for the ask- 

 ing, the carloads of the biggest, finest 

 most luscious watermelons that ever 

 gladdened a darkey's heart are now 

 moving — and mostly toward Houston. 

 "Go thou and do likewise." 

 Sincerely yours. 



F. W. Hensei, Jr. 



Dept. of Hoticulture. 

 College Station, Texas. 



ROCHESTER FLOWER SHOW. 



A Flower Show is to be held in con- 

 nection with the annual exposition at 

 Rochester, N. Y., September 4 to 9. It 

 is to be along different lines from the 

 one held last year, when some of the 

 best growers in the country made ex- 

 hibits, all of which were arranged in 

 a beautiful garden effect. This year it 

 has been decided to have a competitive 

 exhibit and prizes are being offered. 

 There are classes for amateurs as well 

 as professionals, also a division in 

 which both compete. Prize list may be 

 obtained from Secretary Edgar F. Ed- 

 wards. 309 Powers Building, Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Dr. B. T. Galloway, who for the past 

 two years has been dean of the agri- 

 cultural college at fornell, is to return 

 to Washington and will engage in spe- 

 cial plant investigations including a 

 study of plant diseases, in the bureau 

 of plant industry, a bureau he was 

 largely instrumental in developing. 



.1. .T. Bickings. of Congress Heights, 

 D. ('., is in the Casualty Hospital re- 

 covering from a badly lacerated leg. 

 While crossing the Anacostia bridge 

 his wagon was struck by a car and he 

 was thrown into the wheels of an- 

 other vehicle, tearing his leg badly. 

 About two weeks previous a woman 

 chauffeur upset his wagon at 14th and 

 I streets. 



George Gouldman and Harry Ken- 

 nelly motored last week to Atlantic 

 Cit.v. N. J., where the former will 

 spend his vacation, the latter going to 

 Wildwood, a few miles distant. Frank 

 C. Kiefer. with Gude Bros. Co., will 

 spend a part of his vacation in Vir- 

 ginia and a part in Atlantic City, N. J. 

 George C. Dalgleish has returned from 

 a vacation with Mrs. Dalgleish at Col- 

 onial Beach. 



