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Clemson College.

dred ana I0rty seven Stale ConViCls-a
negroes whose terms run all the way from
two months to 8 life sentence. Captain
Perry has had charge of this camp ever
since the work began on the College.
he has employed under him eighteen
guards who are paid SIG per month
with board and washing furnished by
the State. While the convicts are com
PEELED to work regular and steady, they
are we'll fed and show that many of them
are in a better condition th IN they we're
at home. The stockade has been iDcreas.
ed in size, and they have plenty of fresh
air, and yet will be kept warm enough
Ia cold weather. There is a room twen-
|ty by forty feet set apart as a hospital.
It is provided with better cots than the
regular quarters. The sick are kept
clean and everything possible done
to alleviate their sufferings both by nur.
ses and the surgeon, who comes every
day to see them. The bill OF fare consists
of meat-pork and beef alternately, corn
bread, vegetables, aud soup occasionally,
with water. They have their meals at
6, ~ and 6 every day ia the year. At
the time of the visit of the Sentinel rep
resentative, there we're sixteen in the
hospital, but fatalities have been slight,
only 8 or 4 having died in this camp and
we're buried in the graveyard once used
for the servants of the Calhoun estate.
There is DOW kept on the farm at
Clemson, and for hauling building ma
terial, fifty. seven head of mules. This
department is under the control of Mr..
julie Shanklin, and the condition of the
animals show that he is attentive and
understands how to manage mules and
negroes. Besides the old stalls and barn
used last year, there has been erected a
first class modern structure that would
hold fifty or sixty tons of hay, besides
harness and feed rooms. 1t has an eight
foot drive way the full 18th of the
building. The hay is III up in the
NOW, or loft, by n of the patent hay
carriers that will unload two teams OF
hay in ten minutes when properly han.
died. The barn loft is now filled with
~provender enough to feed the mules the
remainder of the year. There is also a
herd of fifteen blooded cattle on the farm
at present, all registered stock, f1Psome
of the best dairy farms in the South.
The stables for the cattle is almost com.
pleted and it will be, when done, the
finest dairy barn in the State. 1t is Al
feet wide by 225 feet in length. One
hundred head of cattle can be housed on
the lower floor, while the second floor
has ample room for provender for six
months feed. Each COW will be held in
her place by the patent stanchions with
which it has been fitted. This building
also contains the three silos built I'M.
der the supervision of Prof. Duggar and
are estimated to hold 120 tons of ensilage
which it is estimated will feed one hun
dred cattle for three months, allowing
them twenty pounds each per day. A
cutting machine has the use ofthis barn.
The material for the filling of silos and
all the feed used will be raised on the farm
Green corn and sorghum are the princi..
pal articles used in the making Of this
class of feed. The farm this year has
produced, under the management of Mr..
Duggar, a very fair crop of corn and a
good crop of hay, which has been put up
for the mules and horses, is especially
fine, comparing fovorably with the best
northern article. The mules and other
stock in charge of Mr.. julie Shanklin
are in extra good condition, considering
the large amount of heavy work done by
them for the past nine months in hauling
brick and stone for the College build
imgs.
As 10 the cost of the work that has
been done, and that Which is yet to be
done, to which will be added the many
thousands that will have to be expended
in machinery, utensils and the hundred
and n other things hat will yet be re.
quired to 6t the Clemson Collegs, for use
of those in charge, it is too early to give
them out, but that it will be a large sum
no one can doubt who has seen anything
of the plans and she amount of labor re.
quired to carry on the work. 1t is one
of the questions left for the future to
solve.-Pickens Sentinel.
- Henry S. Bragg, colored, ia the DOS.