Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-08-25


for, and as you you prosper increase
your stock and, enlarge. If this rule
is adhered to and men of ability and
character arc put in Charge Of each
enterprise ! see no reason why the
South may not double her manufac-
turing capacity in ton years. {.
SO far as making more goods thai
can be sold, that amounts to nothing.
All the cotton that has ever been
produced has been manufactured,
and tho only question is, shall the
South got the additional wage paid
and profit for the finished product,
or shall she be content with the half
loaf, the price of the raw product ?
The best proof that cotton mannfac-
turing is not only feasible, but as a
rule profitable, is the tremendous in
crease in this class Of work in the
last fifteen years in the South.
MARVELLOUS INCREASE IN 10 YEARS.
Do you know that the Southern
States to day have 4,025, ,432 spindles
and 107,500 looms running, against
less than 100000 spindles and $4,000
looms fifteen years ago2 Do you
realize that South Carolina has 1885,
800 spindles and 39,45s looms, or
one-third of all in the South to-day ?
North Carolina coming next with
9s3,136 spindles and 1855 looms,
and Georgia next, with 749,314 spin
dies and 21,094 looms.
When these three States have B.
057,8 $40 spindles out of 4,025,0OO,
and 94,137 loolns of the 107, 900, you
must see how absurd is the state
ment that the South is overcrowded,
when the other ten States all told
have only 967,592 spindles and 49,
364 looms.
The New England manufacturers
have more money and more skill
than we the first difficulty we are
gradually overcoming by following
their example and selling more of
our products in the finished state,
instead of as raw material the
second difficulty, want of skilled
heads, we can get over by establish
ing and fostering, encouraging and
maintaining this textile school.
The only Southern State which is
moving in this direction is Georgia.
She is now organizing textile school
in connection with the Institute of
Technology in Atlanta, and has
$4,000 secured already. There is
plenty of room for more, but as
Clemson College is the best agricul-
tural school in the South, let us
make her textile department second
to none in the Union.
MIR. ToMpKIN's LECTURE.
Mr.. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte,
N. O., made very interesting ex-
tcmporaneous lecture upon textile
education and the development of
manufactures in the South. He
showed that by training on these
lines Germany has obtained a chief
place among the nations of Europe !;
that the South may we'll aspire to
an equality with any section or any
country in manufactures. The South
was in the early days ahead of New
England. She may become 80 again.
If our people are properly educated
power and wealth will follow.
The conditions are now changed.
Literary education was in demand
before the war; now industrial train
ing is in demand, and we must rec,
ognize this change.
Prof. Walker opened the afternoon
session by lecture on soils and their
treatment. The science of agricul-
ture has made as much progress in
the last twenty-five years as any
other science. The presence of
nitrogen, prosphoric acid and potash
will not suffice to produce the best
results. The mechanical condition
of the soils is of the highest impor-
tance. Only recently has it been
discovered that the bacteria in the
soil exert an immense influence in
increasing it's fertility. Tho continual
scratching of the soil admits oxygen,
and thus, doubtless, the energy of
the bacteria is increased. Some of
these bacteria are unlike those which
render the lcgumes 80 valuable.
These bacteria, some of them, fix free
nitrogen, converting it into nitrites
others convert the nitrites into nj.
trates. The application of cold waite,
viii some time check the growth OF
green house plants-probably by an
effect produced upon the bacteria
concerned in plant growth. Garder
| soil aCattoreC over tho aurfoca oftor