Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-12-03

: peaTils exc hanging yieR5 and an
sweripg questions. Thess institnte
are gr5wlng in popularity and ss
great edncators themselves. I:
Tho tronbl the college is to ini
work ior the boya The boy VII
8 does not work isE looked down on
and they are marked in their worl
as they are in their studies. Wheth
er they work or not they are com
: PEELED to go there the same as they
are compelled to go to, the recitation
room. We have reeitations in th'
morning, work in the afternoon, STUDY
at night and early in the morning
Education comes frat, work second
| The boys are thus more healthy
more contented. less disposed to ssov
wild OATS" and, above all, do not los'
their respect for the class from which
they sprung. Besides this. labor, paid
for at eight cents per hour, goes fal
to enable poor boys to pay theil
board.
We have 1000 acre farm, 4OC
acres in good cultivation, the bal
ance pasturage; 800 mead Of stock :
35 pure breed, the balance grades
&c. In few years our sales Of stock
will be $4,000 annually. We now
sell milk and beef to ostudents amount
ing to over $500 per month. The
creamery is a success-run entirely
by students. We can't supply one.
fifth of the demand for cur butter. It
takes precedence over Northern cream
cry butter wherever it comes ir COM
petition with it. We send to morrow
to the Aberdeen tair 30 head OF
splendid stock, showing Che Holste;n,
Devon, Hereford, Galloway, Jersey
and their grades. Wehave 100 com
mon cows, being served BY pure breed
bulls, and ere grading up all the
time. In two years we will sell each
year large number of pure breeds
and say 100 or more grades. Our
dairy herd will be splendid one.
We are blazing out the track that ev.
cay farmer will be able.to follow in,
and giving our experience, failures
and successes for the benefit of our
farmers. We have a splendid pro.
fessor of agriculture, scientific and
practical-got him from the Michi.
gan Agricultural College. Around
our farm land has gone up steadily.
Our ensilage feeding is success.
The object Lesson caused 81 silos to
go up within three miles Of the Col,
lege in August and September just
past. Our farmers are doubling their.
stock, running wire fences around
what was supposed to be their worn
out lands, for pasture, &c. Our cream
cry has moved the butter line South
hundreds of miles.
In horticulture we will soon ship
fruits. We have 5000 fruit trees.
coming on, and e. commercial nursery
Of near $4,000 trees for sale. We
will have twelve acres of strawber.
ries in the spring to USE and ship.
We expect soon to have m evapora-
tor for drying fruits and vegetables.
We analyze all fertilizers sold in the
State. Our faculty and students are
enthusiasts. We know We will sucr
ceed. Our L gislature has been most
liberal, giving us the same .as the
Stats Tniveraity at Oxford-$21,.
zaoo. s YX sqen haye q handsome
income froni'E : laa. ~ ~,
ter, fruits, vegetables, pure. bred cat
tie, grades, &c.
thank you for your pleasant let.
ter. I hope you willsucceed in hav..
ing good agricultural college estab-
lished in South !: Carolina, in loyal
hands. Separateit from the Uni.
versity or it will be emothersd to
death. The atmosphere is not con.
genial. Yours, truly, :
STEPHEN D. LEE. q
will now supplement the admiraL
BILE letter from this grand soldier
statesman with a few extracts from
his letter to Col. Edgar, of which
mention is made:
"We have steadily gained on the
farming and industrial classes and
our popularity is as steadily increas.
ing. The boys in attendance are
mostly all FROM the farms and indus.
trial classes in, the owns!aud cities.
The sons Of wealthy parents have al.
most ceased to attend.
"The Federal law is intended to
reach the industrial classes and l
think we are doing it in our Missis.
sippi institution. We are essentially
an agricultural college, because we
did not have money to make the me.
chanical feature equally prominent,
and because most other colleges have
selected the mechanical and abolished
the agricultural as intangible, where.
as the agricultural is the sl'.absorb.
ing feature at the South and should
be developed and helped. We as.
sumo that the State University should
furnish a strictly classical and litera.
ry education. We ignore the classics
SO as not to antagonizs, and to make
our institution more technical and
practical. We aim for good Eng
iish education and a thorough knowl.
edge, Practically and technically, Of
the sciences underlying agriculture.
We aim to furnish education suitable
to industrial people rather than to fit
them for the professions, as the mass.
es belong to industrial people. Our