Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-09-15
EDUCATION FOR THE TIMES.
Address Delivered Farmers Institute Clemson College
by Rev. Henry S. Hartzog.

boro granite for the post Office build
ing at Nashville. Wo do know that
experts rank that granite with the
best in the world. 81. ..,..
! We do know that the best and
purest Of lime is shipped from Spar
tanburg county. We arc told that
our State is exceptionally rich in
brick and pottery olays and that
brick may be manufactured 25 per
cent cheaper than in the surround
ing States, and that notwithstand-
ing such advantages we stand almost
at the bottom on the list as manu-
facturers, making only one-third of
one per cent of tho brick used. We
do know that there are splendid
bods of corundum in Oconee, kaolin
in Aiken, and asbestos, monazite,
gypsum and manganese in other
counties.
| 1t was known for many years that
immense beds of oalcareous nodules
containing numerous fossil bones OK
listed in the vicinity of Charleston,
| Agassiz, Tourney, and Holmes had
called attention to these deposits. In
1867 DR.. Pratt discovered tho large
per cont. of available phosphate of
lime which they contained. For a
time his discovery met with skeptioal
criticism and objection. In 1868 q
company of capitaliits, composed of
DR.. Pratt, w. G. Bee, Robt. Anger
and G. G. Memminger was chartered
as the Sulphuric Acid and Suporphos.
phate Company. From this initial
company has grown the great phos-
phate industry of South Carolina,
employing an aggregate capital of
: millions of dollars.
For two hundred years those rocks
were looked upon as useless excres-
} cences of nature, but the application
of science and technical knowledge
opened up avenues of opportunity
that led to fortunes.
TuE OUTLOOK FOR AGRICULTURE.
In agriculture, the basis of
wealth, we arc rising to glympses of
higher destiny. In our little CON-
monwealth, SO happily situated in
the golden mean of temperature, we
can produce everything worth eat
ing, we can make everything worth
wearing. We could build q Chinese
wall around our State and from our
fields supply the table and wardrobe
of King Solomon. Immigrants have
their eyes upon us. The waves of
immigration have reached the Rocky
Mountains and are turning south
ward. 1t requirea no prophetic WIS.,
ion to see that land will rise in
. value and that Industries will multi
ply.
We can make three forage crops
in ten months. Iowa makes but one.
Iowa ships forty million dollars
worth of butter and cheese every
year, and we, on the contrary, import
nearly all that we use. Our bleak
hillsides will some day be covered
with grasses and legumes, and the
busy hum of creamories, packing
establishments, and leather houses
: will fill the valleys with music.
I have referred, my friends, to but
few of our undoveloped resources.
There arc many others. A distin-
guished traveller CA. X. McClure)
} after careful investigation writes in
the Philadelphia Ledger: "South
, Carolina is naturally the richest
7 State in the whole Union, without any
7 exception. There is no other part
of the South where so little labor will
produce 50 much. She should have
five times her present population and
be able to feed them from her
r own fields without imparing her
: crops of cotton and rice"
EDUCATION FOR THE TIMES.
, An important question now arises
} What education is best suited to the
r times ? Natural resources and
+ skilled brains like the Siameso Twins
D are bound together and live together
| if ono dies the other dies. How
, shall VIC train our citizens to develop
| our resources ?
COMMON SCHOOLS.
8 Lot us first of all build up the
} common schools. Here the solid
foundation is laid for the high super
structure. When New England
called upon each citizen to contribute
n peck of corn to tho support of Har.
ward College, Gov. berkeley, Of Vir.
| ginia, was exclaiming, 81 thank God
7 there arc no schools or printing
presses in my land, and hope thore
will not be for three hundred years.
=. The South had late start and oul
common school system is even yet il