The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-12-13

Four small residences for 0fhcers......... $50
Two servant GOO
Total cost II buildings. ..s101 $50
Equipment of college buildings (osisinsl).s 1876
The farm was worn out cotton plantation
of 1852 acres mostly abandoned hills
and deserted 1owlands, which cost........S 49, OBS
Cost farm buildings Original ............ 1885
Cost farm equipments (original )."....".... 6,SS2
Total a5,755
These buildings and equipment include
barns for the accommodation Of several
hundred head of stock, rooms for the
storage of grain, hay, ensilage, ETC., for
creamery, steam engines, mowers and
other farm implements.
A. portion of the farm, is devoted to
the experimental station work the re.
mainder to the production of beef, milk,
butter, corn, hay, fruits and other yege.
tables. 1t has been operated more for
educational purposes than for profit.
but has been self sustaining for the
past fouf years. The statement for the
present year shows 81 900 to its credit,
with over 81 500 worth Of beef cattle on
hand. It should be stated here that the
trustees require its products to be.fur.
nished to the college for less than the
market price. There are on hand, in
addition to the beef cattle. abont 130
milk COWS and 100 calves. The different
breeds serve as object lessons to the boys
in the Study of stock breeding, in addi.
tion to furnishing beef and milk for the
college and cream for the creamery.
The feeding done by the students in ex.
perimentiDg to test the value of various
foods for the production of beef and milk,
as we'll as to test the capacities of different
breeds, is at once profitable and iustruc.
tive to them, while it shows forcibly the
advantage of the college being situated
on the farm.
MANAGEMENT.
There is president, sixteen professors
and assistants and $50 students. Many
were kept away by the yellow fever guar.
antine. The college is under military
government and tactics are taught.by 8
United States officer. There are five
classes, one preparatory and four collie
giate. Agriculture is taught from the
beginning, and re were much surprised
to ind that the boys of the preparatory
class understood better what they had
gone over in that study than others, and
were more Interested in it. About one.
third of the student in attendance belong
to this class. No foreign or dead Ian:
guage is taught, but special pains is taken
to thoroughly teach English ard comfo'
sition.
The laboratory is we'll equipped and
affords ample facilities for the study of
chemistry.
The course in mathematics is IS thor.
ough and extensive as in colleges gener.
ally.
|. All the sciences which underlie agri.
culture are taught specially, and are
practically illustrated in the laboratory
and on the farm.
Special attention is given to horticul.
ture, bookkeeping and farm manage.
ment.
The hospital is we'll equipped with
trained nurse and physician.
The mess hall furnishes excellent
board, drawn mainly from the farm, at
about So per month ; this varies with the
cost of the raw material and is charged
to the students at actual cost.
The robustness Of the students is as
much to be attributed to the fine quality
of the bread, butter and beef as to the
exercise given them in physical labor.
Labor is required from all students and
is directed to all branches of agricultural
work, such as draining, cultivation, milk
ing the care of stock, horticulture, etc.
/ 1t is claimed to be equally important as
illustrative of farm operations to keep
the boys in sympathy with farm life as to
furnish the means by which they are
enabled to materially reduce their ex.
penses.
From the best information at our dis.
posal we do not think it interferes at all
with the course of studies. The statistics
prove that those students who earn most
by their labor also stand highest in their
classes.
The location here of the experimental
station, with the, $4,000 given by Con-
gress, furnishes not only object lessons TO
all the students, but remunerative and
practical work to many of the most skill.
tul. and to the seniors who have just
completed the sciences involved q great
deal in this line is given that is of value.
We were impressed with the care and
intelligence displayed by the students in
this work. The director has oversight
and control of station work, but assigns
station work to the heads Of various de.
partments of the college, who control its
details and the appointment of assistants
in their respective departments. The
lines of station work mapped out are
such as are demanded for the immediate
benefit of the average farmer, and the
solution of agricultural problems OF
greatest present importance, as the feed.
Jug of forty seven lots of COWS, three in
each lot, to determine the best ration
for butter; the feeding for forty.seven
lots of steers, three in each lot to determine
the best rations for beef, and like expert
ments with hogs; dairy work to test the
best methods of making butter; expert
ments with corn, cotton and horticulture
are planned, and experiments with view
to find some species of grass for winter
pasture. The students perform most OF
the work necessary, except ploughing, and
are assisted thereby to reduce there ex-
penses, while they become as much inter.
ested in the experiments and results as
the director himself.
The analysis Of fertilizers for the State
is done also in the college laboratory,
and by the professor of chemistry and
his assistants. The students do not per.
form the actual work in this line, but
they may observe and be instructed in
its methods and principles. Any farmer
may send here sample of fertilizer and
have it analyzed without cost. The
fertilizer companies pay a laboratory
fee.
ATTENDANCE AND EXPENSE.
The average attendance during the
eight years its existence is 31f, which
is one.third larger than the attendance al
any other male college in the State
Notwithstanding hundreds of boys were
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