The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-21
The Mississippi Agricultural Col
lege.

Times Democrat
No institution or organization in the
South has done more good in the pro-
gress and development which have
marked this section, or has more adj
vanced its agricultural industries, than
the Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Mississippi, located at Starkville.
It's good work has not been confined to
Mississippi, but has influenced and ben
efitted the entire South as well. Its
graduates have scattered among the
neighboring States; its ideas have ex-
tended throughout the South, ridding
it of old prejudices and opening to it
new ideas that will make il in time one
Of the richest and most prosperous p0r
tiOns Of the Union.
The great benefits the College has
wrought are thoroughly appreciated in
Mississippi, and are only limited by its
financial condition. The applications
for admission are more numerous than
the room offered the applicants. The
College will house only 224 students,
YET already it is assured of over 800
applications for the coming session.
The great and important lessons taught
by this institution have been of i'm
mense benefit to the South, have de-
stroyed old errors and prejudices, i'm
proved its agricultural methods and
made its advantages better known
throughout the world 1t has shown
the true spirit of progress now aspiring
this section; it has convinced all that
the old contempt for labor once preva-
lent here has disappeared; 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 performed by the
students, are the SONS of some of the
most eminent men of Mississippi, men
high socially and politically; and if
they were taught no other lesson than
this-the value of labor-it would be
lesson we'll worth all the money the
State has expended in the support of
this institution.
But the College teaches far more than
this. 1t has introduced and popularized
new industries that are already benefit
ing the South, and will soon make it
rich and prosperous. 1T has shown the
profit of dairyipg and stock-raising
here, the possibility of raising grasses,
and how its worn and exhausted soil
can be renovated and made productive.
In matters of dairying, il has accom-
plished wonders indeed, and in this
respect has been placed among the lead
ing institutions in the land. Attention
has been called to the fact that the only
chair OF dairy husbandry in the coun-
try is that in operation at this College.
Its influence is felt throughout Missis-
IL l..
but year since a creamery was estab-
lished at the College, and following it,
within the past twelve months, two new
creameries have been established in
Starkvilie, one in Bolton, one in Alerid-
ian, one in Macon, all under charge of
young men from the College, while a
number of others are projected in diff
ferent portions of the State. In Ala
bama, at Jacksonville and Blount
Springs, and in Texas, the graduates of
the College are i'll demand for the estab-
lishment Of dairies and creameries.
This is one of the lessons taught by
this College. 1t has taught besides that
the improved variety Of stock will sue
ceed as we'll here as in any portion
of the West; the cultivated grasses,
clover, red top, orchard and blue grass,
do equally well, growing luxuriantly
upon the College farL. In reference to
dairy farming, the single fact that the
Starkville College has beaten the record
in butter making is sufficient evidence
of how successfully grasses and stock
can be raised and the dairying industry
carried on.
Even more important to many por-
tions of the South is the fact, shown at
Starkville, that the old worn lands can
be resuscitated and reclaimed by proper
treatment. Il has, in addition, demon
strated the value of cotton seed as a
beef-maker.
1t has, in fine, raised spirit of in
quiry that is solving all doubtful eco
nomica problems, pushing forward new
industries and evolving wealth.
Such an institution, which has accom-
plisbed 50 much, deserves well of the
people of Mississippi, and the sugges-
tion that they should co operate with it
and endeavor to aid it In the good work
it is doing for the State and the South,
will undoubtedly recommend itself to
them.