The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-04-02
THE CUTT0N PAIR.
The South Carolina Exhibit.
Nec York Commercial .i,lrer.i,e,.


NEW ORLEANS, March lin cele.
brating the Centennial of Cotton. it
should be remembered that no State in
The South has history SO interviewer with
the great industry as that of South Car.
olina. From Charleston 100 years ago
was exported the first bale of Southern
snow, and from that date to this cotton
has been chief element in the wealth
OF the State which has done more than
any other to foster the growth of its
power. Before Whitney reaped the ben
eht of another's invention one &C her
citizens Invented the cotton gin, which
virtually raised the staple to its throne,
and very lately another has patented an
invention, which an official committee
here, after careful Investigation, pro.
nounces to be the only improvement ever
made upon the saw gin, one which will
soon supercede all other gins. The cot.
ton harvester, which another South Car.
Gilman has nearly brought to perfection.
and which greatly to the disappointment
of the cotton world, is not exhibited here,
for fear of infringement of its improve.
ments in its unfinished state. will com.
plete. the list of claims which South
Carolinians advance as their titles 70 be
considered the body guard of King Cot.
ton. Their State exhibit shows beauti-
full collection of cotton, culled from the
Sea Islands to the foot of the Blue Ridge
Mountains, which form the northern
boundary of the State. The staple of
the Sea Island cotton of South Carolina
is said to be the finest in the world. One
of the South Carolina planters raises Sea
Island for Lanely, the great French spin.
ner, and receives an average price of 81
per pound for his crop, when other Sea
Island cotton are only bringing thirty.
tive to forty cents per pound. Two bales
of this cotton are on exhibition, and
have been entered for competition.
SOUTH CAROLINA PRODUCTS.
Sea Island cotton is used to manufac.
lure the best grades of spool cotton and
hue laces, its long staple having capa.
city to be spun into thread so fine as to
be almost invisible. 1t is shown here in
bales, aud framed under glass are sam.
pies of the pretty, silken stuff, just as it
falls from the pod. looking in its dainty,
airy lightness more like the spiders work
than the product of field crop. A very
fine oil painting, the work of Miss Hell.
en- Murdock, of Charleston, shows a
growing plant of Sea Island cotton full
Of blooms, red, white and blue, and tho
fully developed balls from which hang
the snowy fleece is its perfection. The
upland cotton is also we'll represented.
splendid variety, raised near the cap.
ltal of the State, seems to All unframed
eye to rival the far famed Sea Island
cotton in beauty of texture. Corn,
wheat, oats, rye, barley, millo.maize,
sugar cane and sorghum cane are all to
be seen in their various forms, and they
a!l, with the many other agricultural
productions Of the State, are used to
decorate the roof and slender pillars of
beautiful temple which forms one of
the South Carolina exhibit-a veritable
temple of agricultural industry-its outer
courts being studded with glass vases
containing the shelled grains of the
the roof, and the inner court has 600
jars Of preserved fruits and samples of
wine from the vineyards of The Piedmont
section, which bids fair to rival France
i'll the production of fine wines.
The fruits Of this State are shown in
most tempting fashion. One sees here
peaches, pears, ounces, figs, plums,
cherries, strawberries, blackberries,
raspberries, gnoseberries, whortleberries,
haws, grapes, jeliies, jams aud preserves
Of the good old fashioned kinds, which
look as though they were good to eat and
which give the eye rest after viewing
the immense quantities of fruit in this
building put up in white, tasteess fashion
aud already covered with mold.
RICE IN THE GOOD OLD STYLE.
After the agricultural temple has been
admired, the visitor to the South Caro-.
lina's exhibit is attracted to the pretty
display of rice. Supported by pillars,
which are glass tubes filled with rice, is
small roof thatched with sheaf rice,
which justly claims to be the best in the
world. Grouped around this centre piece
are barrels, whose glass tops reveal the
rice aud its various products, and grades
of clean rice, chaff, rough rice aud the
-four and bran which this grain yields.
AS commercial display this is perfect,
but to do full justice to the South Caro-
lima rice the Charleston merchants should
have sent along one of the old time
"msmma's," rs the colored women used
to be called in Charleston, provided with
a small cooking stove, who nigh: have
shown to many visitors how rice was in.
tended to be eaten. Cooked BY these old
mammas, the rice is delicious. Each
grain is separated and swollen to twice
its usual size, and does not at oil resem
BILE the sticky stuff served on 80 many
tables.
Bales OF nay, seven different varieties,
including Bermuda, from Ex-Governor
Hagood's farm, and johnson grass from
the Childs farm near Columbia, bring
before the attention of the student OF
Southern industries o branch which,
since the passage of stock law in South
Carolina, has received the attention O:
some of the most successful of the farm.
ers of the State. Blooded cattle are
fast taking the place Of the herds oi
worthless scrub stock, which once
roamed uocared for over the free pastures
of each neighborhood, and q number ol
farmers now find profitable occupation
in raising fine cattle and hay. One hun
dred varieties of grass, from the 200
tion here. Many of these are needed fol
forage.
:. PHOSPHATE ROCK.
The most prominent and original
feature Of the South Carolina exhibit Il
an immense pyramid of phosphate rock
thirty feet in height, made of thirty tons
of the land and river rock. Set into the
four sides of the pyramid are large shield.
shaped plates which bear the following
Inscriptions:
"Annual shipment of phosphate rock
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