The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30

/ clearly demonstrated that the bugbear Of "cli-
| matte conditions" does not exist and that thu
"dairy belt' has disappeared that success
tul creamery can bo run in Mississippi as well
as in Iowa or Michigan or Illinois Last July
aud August, immediately after starting, 175
pounds of butter were shipped daily to New
Orleans, Mobile, Vicksbnrg, Memphis, &c.,
and the college has never been able to supply
| one.ffth Of The demand made on it for butter.
By June the milk of over GOO cows will be
handled at the college creamery. The butter
| s put on the market fresh, and comma nds q
| better price than ''Elgin, ILL.,, butter'' These
creameries can DO put up in Mississippi at an
| expense Of from 81, 200 to $1,000. Smaller
creameries ore now being put up at less cost
and for individual uso, as separators are being
ohered at reduced prices or lower than the De
LeVal. 1t is seen, then, that creamery put
| up at the college has introduced new indus
try in the State. Besides the stock feature, so
successfully and officially demonstrated, the
college is also cutivatiag large orchards of
fruit. Over 5000 fruit trees are coming on ;
twenty acres of Strawberries and other fruits,
large and small, vegetables, SC. The college
from $4,000 to $4,000 year. 1t cannot ac-
commodate oil the students desiring to attend.
The commencement occasions have usually
from 1000 to 5000 visitors fiom oil portions
Of the State. 1t is doing q grand work, and
has demonstrated that Mississippi can be made
as great q success as n cattle and fruit State as
cotton State that food for cattle grazing and
winter food is cheaper than elsewhere; that the
lands that were considered worn out are splcn-
did grazing lands. Fields that have not been
cultivated for years arc now being inc'osed by
wire fencing and herds of cattle put on them.
The ordinary Indian corn, COW pea, sorghum,
cane, &C., are being utilized for enslage and
feed. The ordinary or native grasses are
equal to any other when cut and handled prop
erly, and it is entirely unnecessary to introduce
foreign grasses. In fact, the native grasses
are the best and afford greater variety. Tho
people of Mississippi arc now awak cning to
the fact that If they will just look beyond n
"cotton row. they have q State which will pr
duce nett only what they have always grown,
but almost everything else, and her capacity
for diver agriculture and industries is in
eXhaustibie.''
Gen. Stephen D. Lee is a tall, soldierly, hand
some man about fifty years old. Trained to
military life and having given to that profes
sion the earlier years OF his manhood, he has
| since 1865, devoted himself TO the peaceful arts
| Of agriculture. Before he was called to the
l presidency Of this college, four or five year.
ago, Gen. Lee was firm believer in tho mourn
full old fallacy that Southern farmer coult
raise nothing but cotton with profit. lie hat
seen the lands gradually exhausted under thi.
| murderous policy aid the.farmers living from
hand to mouth, never advancing or nc;umu 10
ting, always at the disheartcnng dead level OF
stagnation and dependence yet he dwelt in an
atmosphere of fealty to this system, and had
not in his experience heard it questioned. He
was among those, however, who first began to
impeach its integrity and to discuss its over
thrown. The establishment Of the Mississippi
Agricultural and Mechanical College was the
practical result of this movement. 1t has been
in existence only few years, but in that brief
period it has shown Mississipians that their
State is blessed with boundless resources that
if offers rich rewards to every form of agricul-
| tural industry, and rejoices in climate of un-
surpassed hcathfulness. The college farm has
demonstrated the capacity Of the State for gar.
dening, fruit growing; stock raising, dairy far
ming. The college is turning out every year
hundreds of intelligent young men, trained in
all the details of diversified agriculture. Gen
Lee has every right to be proud of the great
work he is conducting, aud hopeful of the re
suit, not only for Mississippi. but for the en-
tire Southwest Nec York Star.