The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-08-21

first, never let tho steer get hungry
and, second, the steer must DC te'
. cheap feed.
Dairylng is most cortain TO Drlni
profit, but requires constant work am
study. Dairying around the cottol
mills, which arc springing up all owe
tho South, should become very profit
able. For dairying in tho South th'
breeds should bo tho Jersey, crosses
betwecn Jerseys and native scrubs
(Which latter are really akin TO tho
,Jerseys,) the IIolstelns and the Gucrn
seys (Which arc equally good with Jer
seys, but not 80 popular.) For beef
purposes tho breeds recommended arc
Shorthorn or Durham, Heresford and
Poll Angus. The dairy animal is not
a beef animal, and vice versa. Fat on
the beef animal, when tho animal is
slaughtered, can be sold as beef, Whilo
on the dairy animal it must be cut off
as tallow. In starting in the live stock
business the farmer should buy the
breed most plentiful in his section,
thereby getting his stock cheap. He
should not buy rare breeds. In live
stock farming one should buy as little
machinery as possible. AS feed there
is nothing better than pea vine hay.
10 succeed in the live stock industry
ono must familarize himself with its
details and requirements ; dairying
especially requires much wolk, much
study, great care, good local market.
For pastures in spring and summer
Bermuda supplies the demand, IN will
ter grain, rescue grass, hairy vetch and
burr clover.
AS rotation of crops on stock
farm Professor Spillman recommended
the following: o. Corn and peas
sown at laying-by. (2) Winter grain,
followed by peas. (3.) Cotton, and
(4) sorghum and peas. One-fourth of
farm oach 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
ings have been erected on the old Fort
Hill homestead of John G. Calhoun.
This is an ideal site, OH a high ridge in
q grove of magnificent native oaks,
having an elevation of 900 teet above
sea level, and commanding on all sides
inspiring views of nearby plantation
scenery and to tho North and the West
the picturesque Blue Ridge mountains.
Here and amid such surroundings a
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 in scientific agricul.
ture, in the mechanic arts, and in theo-
retical and practical textile processes.
Year after year much valuable in
formation of practical character is
furnished to the farmers 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,
dairylng, stock breeding, feeding, etc.;
also, analyses of fertilizers, mails, wat
crs 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 q
two days. course of lectures, have been
hold 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, 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
othor Statos participate in tho pro-
gram.
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