The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-06-05

board will be as much pleased with it
as the committee is. It is a substan-
tial, well constructed, conveniently ar
ranged, beautiful building, and will
accommodate 200 girls, together with
officers and teachers, as promised the
legislature. The very best of material
has been put in the building and all
the work has been honestly done.
The completed building with furni-
ture will cost about 100000. OF this
amount the State has appropriated
$4,000 and we have raised from the
peabody board and elsewhere s1S.-
600
TRAINING SCHOOL.
On May 1st J. received a letter from
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie Offering to give
$4,000 for the Training School. to
make up 100000 all together for that
purpose. This sum, with those al
ready secured, makes the total
amount raised for this schol to date
SS5,O0O and leaves $4,000 to be
raised. The State appropriated 500
OOc for this school upon condition that
we would raise $4,000 in addition for
it, but we have raised, up to this tine.
$65,000. 1 hope to be able to secure
the remaining $4,000 this summer.
The Training school is the very heart
of the professional and practical
training for which a. normal school
exists and should be made as COM
plete as possible in every particular.
One hundred thousand dollars will
enable us to have one of the best
Training Schools in the country.
FARM AND GROUNDS.
At my suggestion, the superintend-
ent Of the farm has begun bee culture
on small scale at the farm. He now
has three or four flourishing hives.
Bee culture is an emiently fitting oc-
cupation for women, and I hope we
may be able to give some instruction
in it to our students in due time.
Poultry-raising is another industry
which we should carry On at Winthrop
To furnish chickens and eggs for the
dlning-room and also to give our STU
dents some training in it for domes-
tic purposes. From my inspection of
normal and industrial schools abroad
and in this country. am sure that we
could make success of it here.
We are investigating a new device
Tor milking cows with electricity, and
from what We learn of it up to this
time are impressed that it will work
successfully. The superintendent of
the farm expects to visit soon a dairy
where this new apparatus is in sue
cessful use. 1t is more sanitary than
the method of milking by hand and
is much more economical With this
apparatus one man can do the work
of three or four.
There are 144 acres in the farm and
it is becoming more evident each
year that this is not enough land for
an institution of the size of Winthrop.
We have been fortunate in buying
land for the enlargement of the camp
us. Since the college was opened at
Rock Hill in 1895 with a campus of
81 1-2 acres, We have bought 16 acres
of adjoining property with two dwell
ing houses upon it at g. cost of some
$4,000 and have paid for, it without
asking the legislature for dollar for
| this purpose. The college campus now
extends to public streets on every side
and there is no longer a chance of an
noyance or injury to the college on
accout of some ones owning property
adjining the campus.
Congressman Lever as secured a
promise from the United States Secre-
tary of Agriculture to send a land
scape architect to Winthrop to help
us with plans for the Improvement Of
the grounds. This expert has not
been to the college yet, but promises
to come very soon. We are also
promised by the United States De-
partment OF Agriculture a number of
rare trees and plants for the campus.