The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-22

the farm has DPtn brought up 10 Il
high state of cultivation. demonstra-
ting that improved methods and di-
versity Of crops ar" peculiarly adapt
ed to the South. BY introducing the
stock feature the poorest lands afford
ample and gOot grazing for more
than nine month, in the year, and the
best lands are giving remuneratiVe
returns in the different crops plant
ed. The College j. building up fin"
grade herd of the different breeds
has now fOrty-tivc head Of pure-bred
cattle, HOlstein, Devon, Galloway,
Hereford, Jersey, etc., $50 grades, iUJ
common COWS, etr.. over 300 head in
all. Last June ii creamery ana dairy
vas established. worked entirely by
students. A De Leyal separator wa-
procured. The experiment is great
success, and now, in less than year
since its establishment it was the
tirst there are going up twenty crea-
meries in different portions of the
State-at Meridian, A Aberdeen, Macon,
Edwards Depot and other points. 1t
has been clearly demonstrated that
he hugbear of "climatic conditions
Toes not exist and that the "duirN
'eIt'' has disappeared; that IA success,
,ul creamery can be run in Mi-sieeip
ii Is we'll as in Iowa or Michigan ..
illinois. Last July and August, I'M
ucdiatrly after starting. l75 pound
+ butter were shipped daily to NeN
orleans, Mobile, Nicksdurg, Mem.
,ilis, ETC., ami the College h44 lrNr
"en able to supply one-Iitth Of tn
icluund on it for butter. BY jun
ne milk of over 500 COWS will be nan
lied ut the College creamery. Tn
utter is put on tine market fresh AIN
unlnands better price than "Ei-i
III batter" These rrrameric, ca
t put up in Mississippi at an "A
jpn>e of from 81, ,1IO to $1,OD0. ~maIlr
reamerie> are noW being put up Il
ro> cost and for individual use; StI
tratUrS are being offered at reduce.
ricrS or lower than the De Laval,
lt I- secl, then that ii creamery pu
- at the College has inlr"lurcd d,
eW industry in the State. Beside
ne stock feature 80 successfully an
tiicialIy demonstrated, the College,
I-o cuItlvHting large orchards {
ruit~. Over 900 fruit trees are com
10 on; twenty acres Of straw h'rrlt
nd other fruits, large and -nalI,Ne-
tables, etc The College is libtrnIl
upported by the state, rrrrlNin.
rOm $50, 600 to SO, 900 a year, 1t ca
lpt accommodates alt the >tudcnts dr
ring to attend. The commcncemrI
....."i"ns usually i.aAc from 1000
ono visitors from al portions pt IL
state. 1t j. DONG grand work, nm
taS demonstrated that Mi->i->ipI
an hp made H. great a success IL
.lttIr and fruit State, a. Il cottn
State; that food for cattle grazingHn
inter food j. cheaper than els
,hrrp; that the lands that were coll
jdprcd worn out are splrndld EraZlm
I
ultivIt"d for years are now hr!u
nclOSpd by wir" fencing, and herH
frattIe put on them. The OrNlinHr
, milan corn, COW pea, sorghum ,"In'
to-, are being utilized for en.iIHI
nd feed. The ordinary or natiN
ru~sp~ are equal to any other Whr
1T and handled property, and it
Ntir"ly unnecessary to Introduce for
IGN grasses. IN }art the native grH~-
: are the best, ahl afford It gr"Atr
arioty The people Of MieSi~-jpl
&c now awakening TO the fact that
hry will Just took beyond a "cott0
'pW' ttlry have q state which wi
,ruducc nOU only what they have a
,uVS GruWI but almost rYrrYthln
Use, and her capacity for divers.tir
griruIture and industries is inrA
haustlbic,
Gent. stephen d. Lee is Il tail, sol
tlrrlv, handsome man, about jUyear,
Id. Trained to military life and haN-
ng given to that profession the ear
Ter years OF his manhood, he has, &,
since lSC1. devoted himself to tn,
peaceful arts of agriculture. Rcfor'
ne was called to the presidency ofth'
College, four or five years ago, Gen'I.
Lee was firm believer in the mourn
full old fallacy that a Southern farmer
could raise nothing bnt cotton with
profit. He has seen the lands gradu-
ally exhausted Under this mutderou>
policy, anG the Farmer living from
hand 20 mouth, never advancing o.
acrumulatilc,a always at the dishcarr-
ened dead l'veI Of stagnation and De-
oen,enc}; vet he dwelt in an atmo>-
pherc Of tcaty to this systcm,and had
not in his experience heard it qncs-
toned. liz Wa' among those, how
ever, who trsr began to impcach it.
integrity atdt0 discuss its overthrow.
The rs,nhli hment Of the Mississippi
gricultur;l and Mechanical College
was the prg'tltat result Of this move
mrnt, 1t La been in existence only
a few years but in that brief period
it has show MIssissippiamSthat their
Lfate il blessed with huundlpSs re.