The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-09-07
The Clemson Farm.

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The editor of the Pickens Sentinel at
tended pic mic at Fort Hill recently;
and was shown over the farm of the
Clemson College by the manager, Mr.. j.
F. G. DuPre. He makes the following
report of his observations:
Mr.. DuPre took charge in February
last and the results abundantly show that
besides great energy and tact he has
brought with him ripe experience, both
in horticulture and agriculture. Our
time was not sufficient to take in all of
either department, but what was devoted
to these departments will pay us hand
some dividend.
Mr.. DuPre has experimental with
ffty-six varieties of Irish potatoes and
obtained most satisfactory results. He
was engaged last Saturday planting a
second crop from which he will save seed
for next year. The first crop becomes
too dry and loses too much of its vigor
to give the best results when used for
planting the next year. As soon as OPP
portunity affords the farmers will have
the benefit of full report on these and
other tests.
His tomato crop has been roaring
SUCCESS, and with cuttings from the old
vines he now has most promising sec
ond crop under way. This is something
new to US under the sun. Besides fur
nishing all the tomatoes necessary for
supplying the convicts and selling many,
as we'll as other vegetables, to families
around town, he has and will Put up for
winter use many hundred cans. They
have in operation a canning factory, the
capacity of which they intend to keep
adequate to the products of the orchard
and garden. It's present capacity is about
500 cans day. They have had beans,
cabbage and cucumbers in abundance
and plenty to sell to all who wished, but
in addition to this, Mr.. DuPre has
. ,towed away several barrels of all these
vegetables for winter use. The beans, he
says, will keep SO that they will be quite
as nice and palstable as if they we're
fresh. His crop of all kinds of melons
has been very successful. These can be
considered only as an index to his gar,
dening.
Mr.. DuPre has certainly broken the
record on planting out fruit trees. Out
of 1900 set out only four failed to live.
Clemson will snon have one of the finest
orchards in the State.
There are three hundred and fifty
acres planted In peas. These will pay
good dividend in a pea crop and also in
fertilizing soil for the next crop. There
is a fine crop of corn on the bottoms.
The yield promises to be superb. The
hay crop has been good and an abundant
supply of ensilage has been provided for
the winter. The silos are we'll filled.
Col. Newman will certainly make the
farm more than self.sustaining. Indeed
it is only matter of a short time before
he will make it pay handsome divi-
dend.
There are one hundred and twenty
acres in one body. 1t is divided into
many sections, on which are growing
! corn, sorghum, millet, potatoes, peas, and
large portion in Bermuda grass from
which crop of hay has been cut. This
and all the farm proper is under the per.
soual supervision OF Col. W. s. Newman,
the Professor of Agriculture. In addi-
ton to this he has 160 acres of new
ground corn which if no disaster happens
to it will make $500 bushels. He also
has cotton (small areas) in varieties. To.
J 5acco about 40 varieties and other things
too numerous to mention. To him is
due the credit of the field crop and Of
our drives and new roads, &c. The gar.
dens, orchards, vineyards and so forth are
in the special charge of J. F. G. DuPre,
under the genial supervision of Col.
Newman. While in the aggregate the
crop is large, and yet almost everything
has been and is an experiment ION a
small scale. For instance, on one and
one. fourth acres was made S77 bushels of
Irish potatoes, but in this there were 81
varieties and twenty experiments. The
rate per acre ranged from "a (lowest) to
4O7 (highest) bushels per acre. The
same in a measure, could be said of
almost everything else; 81 varieties Of
onions, 43 cantaloupes, SO watermelons,
is strawberries, II beets, SO bunch beans,
II pole beans, 33 tomatoes, 16 lettuce and
30 on.
If our farmers want useful object les
soDs, this experimental farm is sure to
give them, with the best emphasis, the les.
SONS they want. No intelligent farmer
can observe Mr.. DuPre's methods with
out getting ideas that will prove useful
to him and his neighbors. Throug b this
medium great good is sure to come to the
farming interests of this section. There
can be no doubt that Col. Newman and
Mr.. DuPre are the right men in the
right place, and no lessons more impor'
tant and useful than they can give will
be inoculated at Clemson Mr.. DuPre
kindly showed US mis- beautiful flower
yard, teeming with almost endless varie-
ties of blooming flowers, but Mrs. Boggs
will have to tell about that. We are not
much Of florist.
Coffee Drunkards.
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