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 the
dairy belt has disappeared : that success
ful creamery can he run in Mississippi as well
as in Iowa or Michigan or Illinois. Last July
and August, immediately after starting, l1j
pounds of butter were shipped daily to New
Orleans, Mobile, Nicksbnrg, Memphis, &C.,
and the college has never been able to supply
one fifth of The demand made on il for butter
BY June the milk of over 500 cows will be
handled at the college creamery. The butter
Is put on the market fresh, and commands n
better price than "Egn, ILL.,, butter" These
creamerics can be put up in Mississippi at an
expense Of from $1,000 to $1,000. Smaller
| creamcrics arc now being put upat less cost
and for individual uso as scparatorS are being
offered at reduced prices or lower than the dc
Lcval. 1t is seen, then, that n creamery put
up at the college has introduced new indus
try in the State. besides the stock feature, 50
successfully and officially demonstrated, the
college is also cutiya'iag large orchards Of
fruit. Over 1000 fruit trees are coming on /:
twenty acres OF strawberries and other fruits,
large aud small, vegetables, SC. The college
is literally supported by the State, receiving
from S3o,OuO to $4,000 year. 1t cannot ac-
commodatc all the students desiring to attend.
The commencement occasions have usually
from 1000 to 5000 visitors fl ON all portions
Of the state. 1t is doing grand work, and
has demonstrated tlat Mississippi can be made
as great Il success rs Il cattle and fruit State rs
cotton State that food for cattle grazing and
winter food is cheaper than elsewhere: that the
lands that were considered worn out arc splcn-
did grazing lands. Fields that have not been
cultivated for years arc now being inc oscd by
wire fencing and herds Of cattle pat OH them.
The ordinary Indian corn, cow pea, sorghum,
cane, &C., arc being utilized for cnsilagc and
feed. The ordinary or native grasses are
equal to any other when cut and handled prop
ery, and il is entirely unnecessary to Introduce
foreign grasses. In fact, the native grasses
arc the best and afford greater variety. Tho
people of Mississippi are now awakening to
the fact that if they will just look beyond a
cotton row they have n State which will pr o
ducc nett only what they have always grown,
but almost everything else, and her capacity
for dive rsiicd agriculture and industries is in
exhaustbic
Gen. Stephen d. .,c i, \ till, soldicrly, hand
somo man about fifty yctr3 old. Trained to
military life anu hHyi1c given u that profcs
sion the earlier years ii L. IArnhood, he has
since 1865, devoted himself to the peaceful arts
of agriculture. Before he WAS called to the
! presidency of this college, four or five years
! ngo, Gen. ice was firm believer in tho mourn
full old fallacy that Southern farmer could
raise nothing bat cotton with profit. lie had
seen the lands gradually exhausted under this
hand to mouth, never advancing or ac:umu la
ting, always at the disheartcning dead level of
stagnation and dependence yet he dwclt in an
atmosphere of fcalty to this system, and had
not in his experience heard it questioned. lie
was among these, 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 n few years, but in that brief
period it has shown MisSissipians that their
State is blessed with boundlcss resources that
if offers rich rewards to every form OF agricul-
tural industry, AMI rcioiccs in n climate of un-
,,"l hcathfuncss. The college farm has
demonstrated the capacity of the State for gar
dcming, frut 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 he proud Of The great
work he is conducting, and hopeful of The re
suit not only for MissiSsipppi but for the en-
tire Southwest Ncr Iori star.