Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-04-12
AGRICULTURE AS TAUGHT AT CLEMSON.
Facilities for Teaching Hundred Per Cent
Better Than Ever Before.

| iihs' ihIefeSCcu i'll agriculture than i'll any
other branch of industry. If tho pres.
ent prices of cotton keep up, much
creator interest will be taken in the farm
and in modern methods of cultivation.
Col. j. S. Newman, Of Clemson College,
has given out tho following facts:
The facilities for teaching agriculture
here arc one hundred per cent better
this year than ever before. The Board
OF Trustees was liberal enough to grant
all the appropriations asked for. The
organization Of tho department is we'll
nigh perfect.
Tho agricultural student gets instruc-
ton in I'll the sciences bearing on agri-
culture There are full courses in
botany, bactcriology, veterinary science,
stock breeding, stock feeding, dairying,
cheese making, horticulture, and the
application of these sciences to the art
OF farming. These, with geology and
chemistry and the literary studies per-
Vadlng the whole course OF four years,
thoroughly equip a young man for sue
ccssful farming.
1t is now recognized that Il study of
the sciences gives a culture equal to that
attained by study Of any other course.
| lhc habit of close observation in tracing
effects from ca .Sc and cause from effect,
which is involved in all the divisions of
THIS department., comprchcnding a study
OF The laws of nature, gives power of
discrimination not found elsewhere.
There are one hundred and seventy
nine students receiving instruction in
this department.. Tho studcnts are now
more interested than ever in the pract-
cal side OF the course because Of the in
creased facilities now offered In the
horticultural department each student
has garden in which he does all the
work, planting and cultivating all the
plants grown in ordinary. In addition
to this he gets general instruction on
horticulture.
For field work, there is plot of
ground containing ten acres, which is
prepared, planted and cultivated with
student labor. The board has authorized
the erection Of neat cottage on the
grounds which will be surrounded by
the usual accompanimcnts of Il well ap-
pointed country home-orchard vine
yard, garden, small fruits and ornamcn
tai grounds. The object is to give an
illustration of how farmers home
should be arranged for profit, comfort
and pleasure. In this field will be cult
waited all the crops adapted to our soil
and climatic conditions. All the work
ho
practical instruction and for the applica
ton of the principles taught in the lee.
tnrc room.
a partial outfit has been secured for
teaching soil-phySico. 1t is proposed to
collect typical soils and subsois of the
State for the purpose of illustrating the
difference i'll their physical properties,
and their behavior under the different
manipulations, with especial reference
to the circulation of water in them.
1T would be interesting to go more into
detail (says d. w. d., writing from Glenn
s"n College to the Anderson Daily MaiD
II space permitted. Such training as is
gwen here will in few years show a
marked improvement in the farming in
tcrcsts of the State.
Col. Newman receives hundreds of
letters from all parts Of the State asking
for information about various crops.
From these letters it seems that more
interest is being taken in divcrsification
Of crops. Considerable interest is being
taken III broom corn. This is a proiita-
able crop, and Col. Newman has prom
iscd to give some points on it's cultiya-
ton later. Much interest is manifest cd
i'll grasses for permanent pasturage.
Col. Newman claims that we have one of
the best countries for stock raising i'm
the world. Bermuda gives green pastur-
age from the first Of May to the last of
November Orchard grass comes in bc-
fore the bermuda goes out, while vctch
and Texas blue grass grow well i'm all
parts Of the State Rye is one of the
very best of winter grasses. SO without
the silo, we can have green pasturagc
throughout the year. In addition to
these VIC have the green soling crops
OF which sorghum is one of the very
best The prejudice against sorghum
and the apprehension of danger from
feeding it to stock are groundlcss Sor-
ghum was introduced into this country
in 1854.
The hybridizing Of cotton is one of the
most interesting experiments being
made. Samples have been sent to cx-
ports, and three of the hybrids nar 20
been classified with cottons worth If
cents per pound, and having ~ inch
fibre. One hybrid has fibre Il inches,
and was classcd at 10 cents per pound.
A cotton has been produced with the
fibre of the Sca Island cotton and with
bolls three times the size of Sea Island
cotton bOlls.