The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-12-06
Total...... 100 100 100 100

other occupations IL.
Per cent of farmers for ? years with
other occupations 8.
Per cent of farmers for years with
other occupations s.
Per cent Of farmers for years with
other occupations %.
Ofthe whole number of studruts 56.6
per cent are farming and going to farm.
#One year means students who spent
one year at the College; 2years those
who spent two years at the College, &c.
This table was compiled in the spring
OF 1887 from replies to circular sent to
all students who had been in atten-
dance at the College prior to that time,
q period Of seven ses i>ns.
INFLUENCES OF THE COLLEGE UPON
THE AGRICULTURE OF THE SOUTH.
1t was our desire to ascertain if pos
sible what, if any, influence the Col
lege was exercising on the agriculture
of the State, in addition to the educa-
tional influence upon the industrial
classes. We were reliably informed
since the College established its cream,
cry, it has influenced the erection Of
twenty others, some of which are very
successful and have competed success
fully with Elgin and other Western
and Northern creameries, which has
moved this industry several hundred
miles South. Silos have been erected
all over the State, and farmers are now
improving their cattle, who before did
not believe that Mississippi butter could
be sold at all in competition with the
Northern product.
The numerous letters to the officers
ofthe college, which we had the privi-
lege of inspecting on all kinds of farm
topics, with the large number of visitors
who came to the college to get informa-
ton on stock breeding, horticulture,
draining and kindred subjects, indicate
that the people of the State largely look
to the college for guidance in agricultu-
raj matters. We learn Of one commu-
nifty whose agricultural matters had
been so changed and improved by the
influence of two boys returning to it
from the college, that the section has
been named after them. Time to can
vass and investigate would doubtless
discover many. more. There are many
other evidences of the good influences
OF the college, which would render this
report too long.
OPPOSITION.
We find the Legislature of Missis-
sippi 1T its last session cut off $4,000 of
the usual annual appropriation to the
College, which caused it to lose some
Of its a5!cst professors. We have been
1T some pains to ascertain the cause
and the extent Of the opposition, if any,
to the college. It seems that the Leg
islaturc some years ago reduced the
taxes below what was necessary to run
the government, which left def
Cheney. It also erected a new asylum
and added a wing to the old one and
erected an industrial college for girls,
which necessarily demanded an in
crease Of taxes.
This raised cry for retrenchment.
It was claimed by some that the farm
was not yielding as much as it should
to the support OF the college, and this
reduction would not materially injure
it. 4 ontion prevailed with some that
the college farm could not only furnish
educational labor at hi gh rates to the
students, hut could largely support the
college. This Ignorance as to the ne
cessity OF an agricultural college, and
the difference between farming to edu-
cate and farming for profit, caused some
to advocate this reduction. These were
Joined by small party in the State
who are opposed to all appropriations
for higher education, and claim that
no educational tax should be laid save
for common schools. There seems to be
10 opposition to the College itself,
except from this latter class, who are
equally opposed to the other colleges
as to this.
We learn from the people We meet
and an editor, who exchanges with the
papers Of the State, that there are but
five papers out OF more than one hund-
rcd in the State which approve the
reduction, and that large number are
warn advocates of the college. Dis
ci.Ssion Of the subject has caused re-
action in favor Of the college amGng
those who favored the reduction, and
the college seems 70 be securely fixed
in the hearts of the people. The places
of the distinguished professors. who
have left have been filled by young
men CT ability and enthusiasm who are
in full sympathy with agricultural
education and the college. These hea-
Gad by Gen. lee, with his extraordina-
r. executive abilities, his implicit faith
in the usefulness and success Of the
his profound sympathy
with the industrial classes will, We have
no doubt, conduct the college into still
greater usefulness in the future.
CONCLUSION.
\ IN submitting this report we would
cypress our appreciation eff the kind
neSs and courtesy Of the president and
officers of the college, and for the un-
restricted freedom allowed us to lcok
into any dot il, even the minutest.
We submit nothing in this report
which cannot be verified absolutely to
the satisfaction of any enc who will