The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-08-20

Poll Angus. The dairy animal is nc
. beef animal, and vice versa Fat OF
the beef animal, when the animal /
slaughtered, can be sold as beef, whil
on the dairy animal it must be cut OF
as tallow. In starting in the live stoc
business the farmer should buy tn
breed most plentiful in his section
thereby getting his stock cheap. Ill
should not buy rare breeds. In liv,
stock farming one should buy as littl,
machinery as possible. AS feed ther,
is nothing better than pea vine hay
10 succeed in the live stock industr,
one must familarize himself with lt'
details and requirements dairyine
especially requires much work, much
study, great care, good local market
For pastures in spring and summer
Bermuda supplies the demand, IN win.
ter grain, rescue grass, hairy vetch and
burr clover.
AS rotation of crops on stock
farm Professor Spillman recommended
the following: Q.) Corn aud peas
sown at laying-by. (2) Winter grain,
followed by peas. (3) Cotton, and
(4) sorghum and peas. One-fourth of
farm each year sown in each of these
| crops.
CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
The Clemson Agricultural college of
South Carolina is located on the divld-
ing line between Oconee and Pickens
counties and within one mile of Cal
houn, a station on the main line of the
Southern railway. The college build
ipgs have been erected on the old Fort
Hill homestead of John G.. Calhoun.
This is an ideal site, on high ridge in
grove of magnificent native oaks,
having an elevation Of 900 feet above
sea level, and commanding on all sides
inspiring views of nearby plantation
scenery and to the Nor,h and the West
the picturesque Blue Ridge mountains.
Here and amid such surroundings
half century ago lived the great ex-
FOUNDER of the constitution. Here today
are gathered more than 500 young men
from all parts Of South Carolina, who
are taking courses i'll scientific agricul.
ture, in the mechanic arts, and in theo-
retical and practical textile proce, les.
Year after year much valuable in
formation of a PRACTICAL character is
furnished TO the ..in.e ts of the STATE.
The State experiment station, which is
maintained and operated under the pro-
visions of the act of Congress known as
the Hatch act, occupies portion of the
college farm, and the officers in charge
gladly furnish free of all cost advice
and information on any topic pertain
ing to general agriculture, horticulture,
botany, entomology, veterinary science,
dairylog, stock breeding, feeding, etc. !;
also, analyses of fertilizers, mails, wat |
ers and other substances, assays of ores,
determination of rocks and minerals,
tests of bricks, cements, building
stones, Illuminating oils, celebration !
of electrical instruments, etc.
Further, the officers of the expert
ment station have already prepared /
and published seventy-tWo bulletins,
and these are sent free to all citizens
of the State requesting them. Many |
OF these bulletins are very valuable and
should be in the hands of every farmer |
in South Carolina.
The duties of the professors of Glenn
son College do not end with the col
lege term, but for the past two or three !
years, during the summer months, far
mers' institutes, embracing usually a
two-days' course of lectures, have been
held by members of the faculty in those
counties of the State desiring same.
The purpose of these county institutes
is to bring practical information to the
farmers and to give them the results of |
scientific investigation in the interest
of agriculture.
Further, a special State farmers in
stitute of one weeks duration is held
in the college chapel during the month
of August in each year, and, beside
the faculty of the college, many promi-
nent speakers and agriculturists from
other States participate in tho pro-
gram.