The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-12-12

Laboratory $500
Presidents Residence. 5000
Six Professors, 50 900 each. 12,00(
Dining Hall, Society Rooms, etc 3,0Ul
Hospital. 2,00C
-Four small residences for Off
GERS. 1,ooe
Two servant houses. 60t
slOl, ,O5(
inas 7originaD 1915;
The farm was worn out cotton
plantation of 1852 acres,
mostly abandoned hills and
deserted low lands which cost Is, OBS
Cost farm buildings (originaD. 10, o3s
Equipments (originaD ...... 6,S3.
Total cost. S35, ,75(
These buildings and equmipments In
clude barns for the accommodation OF
several hundred Of stock, room for the
storage OF hay, grain and enslage, etc.,
for creamery, steam engines, mowers
and other far n implements.
A portion of the farm is devoted te
experimental station work, the remain.
der to the production of beef, milk but,
ter, corn and hay, fruits and vegetables
1t has been operated more for educa'
tional purposes than for profit, but has
been self-sustaining for the last foul
years. The statement for the present
wear s:.ows 81. 900 TO it's credit, with over
81, 500 worth of beef cattle on hand. II
should be stated here that the trustees
require its products TO be furnished te
the college for less than the market
price. There are on hand in addition tc
the beef cattle about l30 head milk COWS
anu 100 calves. TIE different breeds
serve as object lessc.4s to the boys IN the
study of stock bree,hng. in addition to
furnishing beef and mlih to the college
and cream to the creamely. The feeding
is done by the students in experimenting
to test the value of various foods for the
production of beef and milk, as well as
to test the capacities OF different breeds,
is at once instructive and profitable to
them, while it shows forcibly the ad-
vantage of the college being situated on
the farm.
There is president, sixteen professors
and assistants and two hundred and
eighty students. Many were kept away
by the yellow fever quarantine. The
college is under military government,
and tactics are taught " United States
officer. There are i've classes, one prep
atory and four collegiate. Agriculture
is taught from the beginning, and we
were much surprised to find that the
boys of the preparatory class understood
better what they had gone over IN that
study than others and were more inter
ested. About one third of the students
in sttendan ,e belong to this class. No
foreign language is taught, but
special pains are taken to thoroughly
teach English and Composition. The
laboratory is well equipped and affords
ample facilities for the study OF chemls-
try. The course in Mathematics is as
thorough and extensive as in colleges
generally. All the sciences which IN
clude agriculture, are taught specla "
and palticsny illustrated in t1e labora-
tory and on the farm. Special attention
is given to horticulture, bookkeeping
and farm management. The hospital IS
well supplied wita tcained nurses and
phys clans. The mess hall furnishes ex-
cellent board, done mainly from tae farm
at about $500 per month. This varies
with the cost of the raw material and IS
charged to the students st act lal cost
The robustne SIS 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 ID physical labor.
LABOR
Is required from all students and is
directed to all branches OF agricultural
work, such draining, cu.t;7at.on, milk
ING, the care of stock, ho1ticulIure, et,.
1t is claimed to be equally important rs
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-
pensss. From the best information at
our disposal, We do not think 1t inter
feres at all with the course Of study. The
statistics prove that those students who
earned most by their labor, also st nd
highest in their CLASSES. The location
here of the experiment. i st.tion with
the SIS, 900 given by Coegress, furnishes,
not only object lessor to all OF the stu,
dents, but renunerat We, practice wolk
to to many OF the mcs5 sllfd!, and to
the seniors who have just completed t le
sciences involved /. great deal OF work IN
this line, is gwen, t1ot $ OF value. we
were impressed W.T. the care and inteiil-
geuce displayed by the Students IN this
work. The Director has oversight ana
coltrol OF station work, but assigns
station work to the heads OF various de-
partments of the college who control It's
d.tlls and the appointments of assist
ants in their respective departments.
The lines of station work mapped out
are such as are demanded for the imme-
Giate benefit of the average farmer, and
the =. .tion of agricultural problems OF
great. st present impo1tance-as TIE
feeding OF forty seven lets Of COWS, three
in each lot, to determine tue best returns
for butter; the feeding Of forty-seVen
lots of steers, three in each lot, to de-