The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-08-13
THE CLEMSON INSTITUTE.
At Newberry Last Saturday-Atten-
dane Good-Many People Inter
ested in the Exhibits.

Harper, Newman, Doggett and Nor
rlson. They have two cars, which
have been fitted up by the Southern
railway, i'll one of which the profess
sors live and. slep and in the other
they have great many exhibits,
showing the work done at Clemson
college. The professors also lecture
on subjects pertaining to their several
chairs, and then invite the farmers
and ladies and people generally to go
through the car, where they explain
again the work that is being done at
this institution.
AT Prosperity there was Il very
large gathering of farmers, probably
l,o0O people being present. A barbe-
cue was served and the meeting was
held in the grove about
mile from the town and the speeches
were delivered at this place. Unfor-
tunately shower of rain interrupted
the meeting, but the farmers were
very much interested in getting all
the information possible pertaining
to their calling. At Newberry the
speeches were made in the court house
and the meeting here was quite sue
| cessful and quite number of far
mers was present, who gave very
close attention to all the lectures. Mr..
X. L. c. Hunter presided and intro
duced the speakers.
Prof. Newman talked on the in
creased production of crops, laying
special stress OH cotton, by selection
OF seed and varities. He told of the
work done ut the various experiment
stations in the development of new
varieties, testing them and discard
ing or recommending as their yields
justified. The upland long staple
was taken up and recommended as it
will give larger cash returns than the
common short staple kind. Hc show
ed that by improving the quality that
Il man could get twice the profit from
the same yield Of cotton
The next speaker, Prof. Harper.
took up soil Improvement First, bet
ter preparation by deep plowing so
as to give the plant roots larger
feeding bed to hold the moisture and
to let in air and water to break down
and make available the large quanti-
ties of plant food now in all of our
Soils. second, by the proper use of
commercial fertilizer for the perman-
ent improvement Of soil as we'll as
the next crop grown; third, by the
rotation OF crop: so as to protect the
land from washing in winter by the
use of the liguminous plants to pro-
duce nitrogen, and to turn under to
put humns or vegetable matter in the
soil. This method of rotation does
not continually drain the land Of the
same elements of plant food as the
same crop year after year.
In order to get the best results from
this system he said we would have to
raise more cattle to consume some Of
crops in the rotation and that this
would prove very profitable. Take
for example: Cotton seed meal is
worth more as a cattle food than it
Is as a fertilizer and the manure from
| the animal bed will contain 80 per
cent of the fcrtilizing properties of
the meal. The humus in the manure
more than pays for the 90 per cent
taken out by the animal
Prof. Morrison was the last speak
CT. His subject was industrial educa-
tion. In his talk on industrial educa-
tion he said that he was not fighting
education along any other line and he
wished they had more of it. He
brought out that industrial education
taught the dignity of honest work
j That it not only fitted young man
to take charge and direct the great
industries, but to actually become a
part of them and do the work. That
the world was calling for young men
and women that could actually do
things, and that industrial education,
in its broader meaning, was the only
way to fit our young people to take
advantage Of the many opportunities
that are offering every day.
Prof. Morrison closed his talk with
the remark. That he noticed that New
berry college had recently instituted
n technical course and that he must
be right or he had some mighty good
company.
The Clemson exhibit car was on en-
hibition at the union depot and was
full of visitors all day Looking at the