The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-05-02
LAURENS, S. c., May 2, 1906.
A BEAUTIFUL FARM.

"A ROCK Hill correspondent OF the
News and Courier gives a glowing de-
scription of the Winthrop College farm,
which, he says, contains Ids acres ly-
ing within a mile of the College. Land
within that distance of Rock Hill is
worth a good deal of money, $40, 600 we
suppose is about what it would bring.
We take the following from the de-
scription:
"a we'll graded road leads from the
city to the farm, and just where the
avenue from this road turns in a COM
Portable cottage for the foreman is
placed. On one side of the avenue
leading to the big farm is a large field
of oats and turnips, while On the other
side are the orchards, the strawberry
field and alfalfa.
mich cows, is the first place of inter
est. 1t is built after the latest APP
proved plans, and is a model of utility
and cleanliness. AT the time the cor
respondent of The News and Courier
passed through the herd of fifty-five
cows was being MIXED by the skillful
attendants. The majority of the herd
are of mixed breed, chosen for their
good milking qualities, but in one corner
was a row of eight or ten thoroughbred
Jerseys. In the rear of this barn are
canned. In addition to the mich cows
fifteen or twenty head of steers are
kept in stalls and fed for Strengthening.
I'm addition to these there are on the
farm rs head of swine of the red Jer-
sey, Berkshire and Essex breeds. The
barn, 65 by rs feet, for the breeders is
al interesting affair. After passing the
feed rooms at the entrance the whole
middle passage so as to be drained
thoroughly dry at all times.
Another interesting department of
the farm is the dairy, which is presided
over by MI. Ernest Jewell. This is of
one story and basement height. The
latter, in which is a very cold spring of
fine water, is cemented all over. Here
is where the churning is done, by a
35-gallon barrel churn, the butter
worked by a hand machine and then
stamped into beautiful, squares with
'W. N. and l. c. in bold relief.
'In front of the barn is the straw
berry patch of one acre. This is reset
every fourth year. The second year
about 1000 quarts are furnished during
the season. On the first and third
years the yield is somewhat smaller.
THE orchard of eight acres is about
equally divided in apples, pears and
peaches. Not all of these are in bear
ing at once, but the orchard is kept up
to that size by r~eplantation. The or
chard products are not furnished to the
College in fresh fruit, but canned. Last
season there were 267 gallons of syrup
peaches prepared in the small cannery
close by the dairy.
Sin addition to the products men
toned the farm furnished Winthrop
last year with SO, S52 pounds of beef and
1919 pounds of pork. There are other
things to be seen upon this up-to-date,
thoroughly conducted farm, but these
are some of the most interesting to the
ordinary visitor"
And also this:
"The ordinary market in a small town
is very uncertain, and it would be i'm
department of a great institution like
Winthrop Normal and Industrial Col
lege without Independent of
this. Realizing this some years ago,
President Johnson and the trustees of
Winthrop bought n small farm of 145
acres within less than a mile, and lying
directly in front of the College.
Under the wise administration of
Prof. BUST and the intelligent execu-
ton of Mr.. John r. Poag, the foreman,
this has proven an n~nfailing source of
supply for vegetables, fruit, milk, but
ter and meat, furnishing to the institu-
ton frst-class, fresh, pure and whole
some food"
We marvel how Converse and Chicora
and Lander and the Greenville Female
College and the Due West Female Col
lege and the two female colleges in Co.
lumbia have survived all these years
without farms of at least 145 acres at
tached. We have no doubt such a farm
as this at Winthrop would help nightly
to pay the expenses of any college, and
keep the table supplied with strawber-
ries at this time of the year besides.
Nothing is too good or good enough
for the girls is II notion. The friends
of the other colleges should begin to
raise funds to buy farms at once. Why
throw away donations on libraries and
chemical laboratories and gymnasiums
when colleges for girls have no great
pigs and monstrous steers and crows
of eight or ten thoroughbred Jerseys?
In our opinion a mar can be hired to
s%upcrintend a girls college farm at a
salary of about 81, 200 the year, and a
foreman can be had for o:en less than
that. Of course the superintendent
should be provided by the college with
a house to live in, and we would have
little respect for a college that did not
provide comfortable homes for its I'M
ployees.
1t is surely astonishing though that
in the face of the fact that a farm in
connection with a girls college is such
a paying institution any of the colleges
for girls are without them.