The ten at the Hemenway Farm are a part of 130 “work students,” thirty of them girls, employed in the various industrial departments, constituting about one-third of the colored pupils at Hampton. They devote a preliminary year to day labor and night study, to fit themselves to enter the junior class of this year’s course, and to accumulate a small fund, averaging $75 for the year, to help meet cost of board, ten dollars a month, besides clothing and books. This is done in part by working two days each week of the regular course. With strict economy and working all vacations, they maintain themselves through the entire course graduating without receiving a dollar in charity, some, however, need help the last year and none are more worthy of it. The effect on their characters is excellent. Good as it is, that they shall earn and learn in this way, it is even better for the habits, ideas and manliness it promotes. The entire class is mature, averaging 19 years of age. Mr. Vanison is as excellent a manager as we care to have; his wife keeps house, sees to the boys’ meals, rooms and washing, and teaches them nights, besides raising some 500 chickens, at which she has a wonderful “knack.” The farm was cultivated last year as follows; 75 acres in wheat, 80 acres in oats, 112 in corn, 35 in clover and orchard grass, the rest in pasture, a few acres being devoted to vegetables and an orchard. Much was done in clearing old ditch banks. The stock consists of 50 hogs and pigs, 110 sheep and lambs, 6 colts, and from 10 to 20 beef cattle, which are bought in the neighborhood, fattened on the pasture and killed at the school, two or three a week being required there. The Hemenway farm, of 600 acres, some 60 acres of it marshy, is situated in Elizabeth City County, on Bach River, which is an estuary half a mile in width. The house is a famous, but plain, old Southern mansion, in which Gen. Washington once dined. Until 1878 it had been for many generations in the hands of an old aristocratic family, whom the war impoverished, and their place was sold for debt. The location is a beautiful one; the region is quite Englishlike in appearance, with its rich, level fields and its hedge-rows. In summer, delicious breezes blow up the river from Chesapeake Bay, four miles distant. Oysters and fish abound in its water front; a handsome lawn and fine old trees surround the house, all of which are a delight to the boys, especially to the Indians, who have long summer mornings.