The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-04-28

wer.: shipped daily to New Orleans,
Mobile, Vicksburg, Memphis, SC, and
the college has never been able to
supply one-ffth Of the demand made
Oh il for butter Bv June the milk Of
500 COWS will be handled at the college
creamery. The butter is put on the
market fresh, and commands better
pricethan "Elgin, H., butter" These
creameries car be pnt upin Mississippi
at an expense Of from 81 ,20Qto s., ,0QU,
Smaller crcameries are now being put
I'D al less cost and for individual use,
as separators are being offered at re-
duced plices or lower than the De
Lcval. Ii is seen, then, that cream
cry put up at the college has intro
,soced new industry in the State.
Besides the stock feature, so success
fully and officially demonstrated, the
college is also cult!vatims large
orchards of fruits. Over 5000 fruit
trees are coming on; twenty acres OF
strawberries and other fruits, large
and small, vegetables, sc. The col
lege is literally supported by the
State, receiving from S50,U00 to s4O,-
900 Il year. 1t cannot accommodate
ali the students desiring to attend.
The commencement occasions have
usually from 1000 to 5000 visitors
from all portions of the State. 1t is
doing a grand work, and has demon
strated that Mississippi can be made
as great success as cattle and fruit
State as cotton State; that food for
cattle grazing and winter food Is
cheaper than anywere; that the land
that were considered worn out are
splendid grazing lands. Fields that
have not been cultivated for years are
now being inc!osed by wire fencing
and herds of cattle put on them. The
ordinary Indian corn, COW pea, sor-
ghum, cane, &C., IRE being utilized for
ensilage aud feed. The ordinary or
native grasses are equal TO any other
when cut and handled properly, aud
it is entirely unnecessary to introduce
foreign grasses. In fact, the native
grasses are now awakening to the
fact that if they will just look beyond
"cotton row" they have State
which will produce not only what
they have always grown, but almost
everything else, and her capacity for
diversified agriculture and industries
is incXhaustiblc.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee IS a tall. SOL
dierlv, handsome man about fifty
years old. Trained to military life
and having given to that profesSio"
the earlier years of his manhood, he
has, since 1865, devoted himself to the
perceful arts Of agriculture. Before
he was called TO the presidency of this
college for or five years ago, Gen. Lee
was irm believer in the mournful
old fallacy that a Southern farmer
could raise nothing but cotton with
profit. He had seen the lands grad
uailv exhausted under this murderous
policy and the farmers living FROM
hand to mouth, never advancing
or accommodating, always at the dis
heartening dead level Of stagnation and
dependence; yet he dwelt in an atmos-
phere of fealty to this system, and had
not III his experience heard it ques-
toned. He was among those, how
ever, who first began to impeach its
integrity and TO discuss its overthrow.
The establishment of the Mississippi
Agricultural and Mechanical College
was the practical result of this move
ment. 1t has been in existence only a
few years, but in that brief period it
has shown Mi>siSsippianS that their
State is blessed with houndless re-
sources; that it offers rich rewards to
every form Of agricultural industry,
and reioices in a climate of unsur-
passed healthfulness The college farm
has demonstrated the capacity OF the
State for gardening, fruit growing,
stock raising, dairy farming. The
college is turning out every year hum
dreds of intelligent young men, trained
in all the details of diversified agricul-
ture. General Lee has every right to
be proud of the great work he is con
Quoting, and hopeful of the result, no'
only for Mississippi, but for the entire
Southwest.