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

hlinSell 10 WORK LOT seven years IOr
his board and clothes to loarn a
trade, when he could learn to attend
to one of these machines in three
months and make good wages at
once ? Tie result, however, is that
in this day of advancement, educa-
tion and the perfection of mechan-
ism we have very few thorough me-
chanics. Each man has learned to
do his particular work to perfection,
but has absolutely no knowledge of
his neighbors, and no interest, or in
formation as to how tho whole is
accomplished. The overseer does
not want the bother of training a
man to run particular machine
when he does not expect to continue
running it ; the hand does not want
to quit a machine on which ne is
getting good wages to learn another,
when he will at first earn very little ;
the result is that in any large estab-
lishment , you have hundreds of
bright, competent men who know
their departments thoroughly, and
not one man who has u general
knowledge of the business in all it's
details. This, in my Judgment, has
caused the demand for technical
education, and TO be successful these
schools, which have sprung up all
over Europe and this country, must
meet the requirements.
1t is not skilled hands that they
are to supply, for man can learn
far moro thoroughly and practically
tho absolute work in any of the large
establishments in this country than
in the best technical college; but it
is skilled heads that the mechanical
and agricultural work is demanding.
Your student must learn the gene
raj scope, the plan, the reason of the
work. IIe can learn on the farm how
to plough, to hoe, to ditch-teach
him when to plough and hoe, where
to ditch, what certain soils need,
what crops pay best, how to handle
his products, how to save and build
up his land, and how to utilize every
thing on the farm. On his practical
knowledge of the work itself graft
the scientific and theoretical, teach
him in three years what it has taken
the agricultural world hundreds of
years, by experience and experiment,
to learn. SO with manufacturing,
your student can learn to card and
spin and weave in mill, 80 far as
the labor of doing it is concerned,
better than in IL technical school and
get pay for his work besides; what
you must teach is how to manipulate
the machinery so as to get the best
results, the incest goods, at the least
cost.
TIE SPHERE ENLARGED.
lie must be taught the construc-
ton and peculiarites of the raw
material, how it may be combined
and treated, how handled that all
the valuable parts are utilized, and
all foreign and useless substances
cradicated. He must be taught
what a machine should accomplish,
and be able to get the best results
from every machine in the mill.
Production has increased much
faster than consumption, and in
these times of fierce competition,
unless we keep fully abreast in the
improvements of our methods, utili-
zation Of every advantage which
nature has given us, we will soon be
out of the contest.
COL. NEWMAN TIE IDEAL FARMER.
Clemson College has organized and
has in successful operation two
branches of technical education, and
is just embarking on the third. Her
agricultural department is credit
to the farming population of the
State, and should be encouraged and
upheld by ever. man who has o
spark of pride or patriotism in his
soul. Under the guidance and con-
troll of Col. Newman (the best cx-
ample of practical and theoretical
farming combined in the Sc"th} VIC
shall reap a great harvest, and our
children Will rise up to call then,
blessed who organized and maintincd
such an institution.
The mechanical department has
not mot with such conspicuous sue
ccss until recently, but it is doing
good work, and with the field open
and continued effort it will give us
results that all will be proud Of Tho
last fow months has conferred public
gaze upon its operations, and the
number of students of this depart
mcnt who have passed successful OK
aminations and obtained employ.
ment in tho United States Govern.