The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-07-10
TIE Mississippi agricultural college.
TTimes.Democrat.l

10 tue Sonth mas done more g00u
in the progress and development
which have marked this section,
or has more advanced its agricul-
tural Industries, than the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College of
Mississippi. located at Starkville.
Its good work has not been con.
fined TO Mississippi, but has infu.
enced and benefited the entire
South as well.- Its graduates have
scattered among the neighboring
States; its ideas have extended
throughout the South, Kidding il
of old prejudices and opening to it
new ideas that viii make it in time
one Of the richest and most pros
porous portions of the Union.
The great benefits the college
has wrought are thoroughly ap-
preciated in Mississippi, and are
only limited by its financial condi
tion. The applications for admis-
sion are more numerous than the
room offered tho applicants. The
college will house only 225 stu.
dents, yet already it is assured of
over three hundred applications
for the coming season. 4
The great and important lessons
taught by this institation have
been of immense benefit to the
South, have destroyed old errors
and prejudiees, Improved its agri.
cultural methods and made its ad
vantages better known through.
out the world. Ii has shown the
true spirit of progress now inspir
ing this section; it has convinced
all that the old contempt for labor
once prevalent here has dlsap.
peared; that the Southern youth
recognize the necessity of labor
and truly honor and value it. At
this college, where the manual
labor of tilling the soil is perform.
ed by the students, are the sons
Of some of the most eminent men
of Mississippi, men high socially
and politically; aud if they were
taught no other lesson than this
the value OF labor-it would be q
lesson well worth all the money
the State has expended in the
support of this lnstutlon.
But the college teaches fal
more than this. /. has introduced
and popularized new industries
that are already beneftting thC
South, and will soon make it ricl
aud prosperous. 1t has shown The
profit of dairying and stock rails
ing here, the possibility Of raising
grasses, and how its worn and ex
hausted soil can be renovated ant
made productive.
In the matter of dairying, it ha'
accomplished wonders indeed
and in this respect has been plac
ed among the leading institution
in the land. Attention has beer
called to the fact that the onl,
chair of dairy husbandry in tn,
country is that in operation a
this college. Its influence is fel
throughout Mississippi and neigh
boring States. 1t is but a yea
, since a creamery was establishes
at the college, and following il
within the past twelve months
two new creamerles have been es
tabllshed in Starkyille, one in 30
ton, one in Meridian, one in M
f con, all under charge of youn
f men from the college, while
| number of others are projected i
! different portions of the State. |
, Alabama, at Jacksonville an
1 Blount Springs, and in Texas, th
q graduates of the college are in d,
\ mand for the establishment of da
{ ries aud creamerles.
A This is one of the lessons taugl
by the college. 1t has taught b'
Y sides that the improved variety {
a stock will succeed as well here a
1 any portion of the West; that Gu
t tivated grasses, cloyer, red tol
o orchard and blue grass, do equa
t ly well, growing luxuriantly upo
s the college farm. In reference I
t dairy farming, the single fact thi
t the Starkville College has beate
;. the record in butter making
/. sufficient evidence Of how success
II fully grasses and stock can |
d raised and the dairying industl
Fl csrried on.
/; Even more important to mar
/. portions of the South is the fac
/. shown at Starkville, that the o
r worn lands can be resuscitatt
s and reclaimed by proper trea
e ment. 1t has, in addition, demo
Ir strated the value of cotton SET
J. as a bccfmaker.
9. II has, in fine, raised a spirit
y inquiry that is solving all doubtf
a. economical problems, pushing fc
,s ward new industries aud etolvil
n wealth.
s. Such an institution, Which h
q accomplished so much, deserv