The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-11-27
,RRPoRTs OF THn orFroERs.
Some OF the Details from the Head
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Some ofthe Details from the Heads
ofDeparfments.
The report Of President Craighead
covers fully the work in the college
and on the grounds. He says that 635
students have been enrolled during the
past year, and they are about equally
| partments of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts.
AT the beginning of the session the
Board authorized the President to take
steps to fatten and slaughter beef for
the mess hall, instead of purchasing it
by contract as in the previous year.
| Accordingly slaughter-house was
built about half mile to the rear of
the dormitoryb and pens made for both
hogs and cattle. BY this arrange
ment nearly $1,000 has been saved The
college, as the actual cost of beef has
been At cents per pound net, against
81 cents of last year, and as nearly 100
hogs have been fattened with slops
from the kitchen.
'The horticultural Department.. un.
der the efficient management of your
painstaking horticulturist, Mr.J, T.. G.
uuE're, has made unmistakable pro-
gress. He has kept the mess hall sup
piled with choice Vegetables and has.
In addition to this, put up for the use
| OF the students during the winter 1000
three-pound cans of tomatoes, okra,
! corn and beans, The canning factory
more fully equipped at cost of $3.50,
has proved to be q profitable invest
ment, as we'll as valuable object les,
son for the horticultural students, who
do most of the canning.
During the year house for stor-
Ing winter vegetables has been built on
the horticultural grounds, the green
house improved and enlarged, and the
valuable collection of flowers belong
ing to Mr.. DuPre purchased for the
college. The gardens have been in
deed laboratory for thoIarge number
OF students who have worked with Mr.,
DuPre. For full account of the work
done in this department and of its needs
Tor the coming year, you are referred
horticulturist,"
President Craigkead says electric
lights have been put infthe laundry,
citation building, hospital, mechanical
hall and in most OF the professors
houses without cost to the college.
Professor Craighead recommends
that German and French be made op-
tional in the junior and seniori wear,
and says that "no man can kaep a.
breast of the progress in agriculture,
physics, electricity, or, in fact, ia any
department. OF science, who ia unable
to read German and French petiodl-
calls. Without knowledge of Ffench
and German, those of our students who
wish to become professors of aSricul-
ture, experiment station workers, edi-
tora OF agricultural papers, will find
their equipment Incomplete.
10 prevent too much crowding in
the senior year, where some freedom of
choice OF students should, think, be
granted, the services of another in
strgGtor will be needed. He should
Seach either physiology and veterinary
surgery, mineralogy and geology, or
some other branch included in the cur
riculum for which no instructor has
been employed"
About 5000 has been spent on IL
brary and 1t is kept open four hours
under care of q cadet librarian. Presi-
dent Craighead says that at least $5, 900
moro is needed for books. There is
also reading room, supplied with
leading periodicals and daily newspa-
pers.
AGRICULTURAL WORK.
Professor w. L, McGee, associate
instructor of agriculture and superin.
tendent OF farm, reports that the acre.
age of drops grown on the farm this
year will aggregate about as follows {:
Sixty acres in oats 1S0 acres in corn
thirty-five acres in corn for silage /;
ten acres in sweet potatoes fifteen
| acres In peas eight acres in sorghum
for silage and solling purposes; eight
acres In cotton for experiments; fiye
acres In rye; five acres In bermuda
sod.
The oat land was all planted to peas
for hay or to corn for silage. The corn
was all sown in peas at the last plow-
ing; f,o opon. !, !. :, i, !,
lows: One thousand and two hundred
bushels OF oats; thirty tons of hay
$50 tons silage 125 bushels peas 5000
bushels corn; 6,700 pounds of fodder.
Cotton and sweet potatoes not yet
harvested.
| The expenditures of the department
are as follows; For fertilizers 1921 .18
for seeds $248.56; for tools, repairs,
tilling, etc. $331.75; for wages--farm
foreman $263.75; for labor 81, ,50I.61.
The energies of the farm for the
next few years must of necessity be
devoted to building up of the farming
lands, terracing and ditching the up
lands, aud ditching and dr9ining the
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for it is mU,e profitable to cultivate
those lands which have been improved
to the highest degree.
Student labor has been utilized as
9 far as possible at milking, attending
cattle, work on barns, work on campus
Improvement OF grounds, etc. Theii
work on the farm has been devoted
almost entirely to hand labor, as the
limited time which they work, ON &C
count OF recitations and other duties
makes 1t impracticable To have then
handle teams and machinery. Sucf
: work is performed by students only
when tits necessary In an educationa
way. Student labor, pecuniarily con
sidered. is unprofitablo, but from 81
} educational point Of view, and as al
assistance to deserving boys o { limited
means, it is Invaluable.
THE MECH MO Arts.
$. Tompkins, professor Of necbani
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