The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-04-29
were shipped daily to New Orleans,

were snlppeu daily TO New Orleans,
Mobile. Vicksburg, Memphis, Sc, and
the college has never been able to
supply one-flfth Of the demand made
on it for butter. By June the milk of
60O cows will be handled at the college
creamery. The butter is put on the
market fresh, and commands better
price IAN "Elgin, H., butter" These
creameries can be pnt up in Mississippi
at an expense of from 81, ,200to 5000.
Smaller creameries are now being put
up at less cost and for individual use,
as scpurators are being offered at re-
duced prices or lower than the De
Lcval. 1t is seen, then, that u cream
cry put up at the college has intro
duced new industry in the State.
Besides the stock feature, so SUCCESS
fully and officially demonstrated, the
college is also cultivating large
orchards of fruits. Over 5000 fruit
trees are coming on; twenty acres of
strawberries and other fruits, large
and small, vegetables, &c. Tie col
iegc is literally supported by the
| State, receiving from $4,000 TO $40,
oOo year. 1t canuot accommodate
an the students desiring to attend.
The commencement occasions have
usually from 1000 to 5000 visitors
from all portions Of the State. 1t is
doing grand work, and has demon
strated that Mississippi can be made
as great success as u cattle and fruit
State as cotton State; that food for
cattle grazing and winter food j.
cheaper than anywere; that the land
that were considered worn out are
splendid grazing lands. Fields thai
have not been cultivated for years are
now being inclOscd by wire fencing
and herds of cattle put on them. The
ordinary Indian corn, COW pea, sOr-
ghum, cane, &c, are being utilized for
cnsilagc and feed. The ordinary or
native grasses arc equal to any other
when cul and handled properly, and
it is entirely unnecessary to introduce
foreign grasses. In Fact, the native
grasses arc now awakening TO thv
fact that if they will just look beyond
Il 'cottOn row. they have Il Slate
which will produce not only what
they have always grown, but almost
everything else, aud her capacity for
diversified agriculture and Industries
is incXhauStiblc.
Gen. Stephen ID. Lee is tail, sol,
dicrly, handsome man about Gt>
years old. Trained to military life
and having given to that profession
the earlier years Of his manhood, lie
has, since 1868, devoted himself TO The
pcrcctul arts OF agriculture. Before
Inc was called to the presidency of this
college Tor or five years ago, Gen. Lee
was lrm believer in the mournful
oId tallacr that u Southern farmer
could raise nothing but cotton will,
profit. He had seen the lands Grad
ua!ly exhausted under this murdcro, 6
| policy and the farmers living from
hand TO mouth, never advancing
or accumulating, always at the dis
| hcartenlng dead level Of slawnation and
| dependencies; yet he dwelt in an atmos-
| phcrc OF fcalty TO this system, and had
not III his experience heard it Oucs-
toned. lie was among those, how
! ever, who first began to impcuch its
| integrity and to discuss its overthrow.
The establishment of the Mis>issippi
Agricultural and Mechanical COLLEGE,
was the practical result of this move
mcnt 1t has been in existence only a
few years, but in that brief period il
has shown Mississippians ihat their
State is blessed with bomdIrss re-
sources; that it offers rich rewards tu
every form of agricultural industry,
and rcjoiccs in climate of unsur-
passed hcalthfulncss The college farm
has demonstrated the capacity Of the
State for gardening, fruit growing,
stock raising, dairy farming. The
college is turning out every \ car hun.
drcds of intelligent young men, trained
in all the details of diversified ayIicul.
turc. General Lee has every lipht to
be proud Of the great work lie is con.
ducting, and hopeful Of the result, no;
only for Mississippi, but for the entire
Southwest.