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A I'KN PICTURE OF CLSMSON COUJBGK Works for Welfare in Many w?y?- ; Picture h coulit^ estate of 1,500 acres, with stately buildings placed at elevated points to form a great irregular circle of half a mile in din meter. Inclose in this circle a beautiful grove of native oaks, threaded by smooth drive wave and paths and cement side walks. Turn to the north and for a background outline against the sky at a distance of 20 miles, range after range of mountains, the, home of the Highlands, or Caesar's Head, Whitesidea and other lofty in-aks of the Hlue Itidge. Think of these mountains as in summer clothed with ver dure, Standing out black against the horizon, Slid in winter often white, with snow. Take for the southern boundary a river of In dian lineage awl follow in its sweeping crookedness the swift and turbulent Seneca as it twists this way and that to mark the confines of t lie estate. And to this setting add broad expanses of river bottom lands green with 66rri, .steep hillsides sinuous with level grassy terraces and cool pas tures \n i 1 1 1 winding brooks and graceful shade trees and you have a picture of Olemson College, not colored to suit the canvas of an artist, but as seen every year by nearly a thousand younjjj South Carolinians who see It, amid these surroundings, an education that will prepare them for self- respect ing, selt-supporting citizenship. A Storied Spot. Olemson College is a unique blending of the old and the new, of the historic with the now. Just pcross (lie road from the cadet dormitories, which every session house over 800 young men, and in Sight of the new, electric power fctation that day or night beats as the industrial heart of the com munity, is the white columned mansion of the illustrious John O. Calhoun. One can almost pic ture the great statesman, 4s with hands behind him he paces the avenues of cedar and oak, putting into form those matchless ideals Of p?n'witi?in ?wli/wy fill fill maiii-Uft hever lived to see. About 50 yards to the rear of .the mansion is a queer little otie storv room struct ur<L~,W.ith col limned norch t<;> match the man sion. This was the "study" of the great statesman, and here were written many of his great op tions. Undtfr this little study, which is about '20 feet square, is dug a deep pit in which ice cut in winter was stored for summer use. IIow the seasons must have changed, for only during one or two winters of the 20 -which the writer has spent in t He "up coun try" has ice formed in sufficient thickness to justify such ample storage. In the old mansion are many historic relics, including a chair used by Gen. George Washington, and a seven-foot mohair-covered lounge on the back of which is carved the American eagle. It is said that the engraving on our coins was copied from this carv-| ing. . l'lie old mansion with its his toric memories, the peer of the! Hermitage, Mount Vernon and Mohticello, is a priceless State and national asset, and should be a perennial source of inspiration to succeeding generations of young South Carolinians who are priv ileged to live for four years in the shadow of its historic walls. Many are wont to ask why the college does not bear the name of Calhoun instead of the name of his son-in-law, Thos. (J. Olemson. 'The answer is that nowhere, does it apj>ear in the ivcords that Mr. Calhoun ever wished or planned the erection of an industrial and technical college on the old home stead. The complete story of Mr. Clemson's part in the rounding of the college is too long to be told he iv. A Vast Plant. The college tract contains over 1,500 acres. On the property there are 23 principal public buildings, 70 dwellings and 04 minor buildings. The college has in its employ 401 teachers, officers and laborers. Its inventoried propertv is $1,327,728.57. The of ficers of the college send out year ly over 35,000 letters and over 435,000 other pieces of mail mat ter. most of which give agricul tural information. In addition to the parent Ma tion, the college maintains two branch experiment stations ? one near Sumincrville ami the other at Florence. One more to be situ ated in the sand hill section of the State, just as sioon as funds will Permit, will complete a system ,'v. ??vsenting the principal soil of the State i The enrollment has grown from 440 students in 1803 to 884. Orig inally there were but two courses of study? now there are 18. In addition to these regular degree courses, there is a four weeks' course for fanners and a one-see mom pract ioal agricultural course extendi fig from October 1 to June 1 for men over 18. Public Service, But the trustees of Clemson College have not only organized an efficient system of fertiu?.er in spection and analysis, by which trie farmer gets value Received from the tax he pays, and built and maintained a great agrieul tural and mechanical college, but tliey have gone a step farther than is required by their compact with the people and have sought to re turn to those who pay tnie tax in the shape of direct service, all that could be snared over and above the cost of operation and build ing. The public service has grown as the fertilizer tax has grown, now reaching an annual total of over $100,000. Clemson College, with its plant well developed} Its patronage as sured and overflowing^ its lines of public service popular and effi cient, has behind, it a creditable record of achievement, and before it a future bright with the prom ise of usefulness to South Caro lina. CLEMSON'S HANDSOME Y. M. C. A. BUILDING Association Structure Now Being Built at Agricultural College Will Cost $75,000, and Will Rank Among Finest in Entire South. Jtist north of the textile school at Clemson College them is being reared a magnificent structure that, when completed, will become an important factor in the social and religious life of the student body at the State's agricultural and mechanical college. It^ is the building of the Young Men's Christian Association, one of the first association structures in the South, and one of the finest col lege association buildings in the country. It is costing $75,000 and was made possible by the generos -itv of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, who donated $50,000 on condition that $25,000 more should be forth coming. The College trustees ap propriated- $1 5,000, which left $10,000 still to be raised. This sum was made up by the loyalty and contributions from cadets, faculty, alumni and former stu dents. Work oi^ the building is prc^ pressing well and the contract ?calls for completion before Jan uary 1, 1916. The work is not be ing done bv the college! but by contract. 1 he successful bidder is Mr. Thomas W. Cothran of Greenwood.. The architect is Prof. It. E. Lee, head of the division of drawing and architectural engi neering at Clemson. It is a coin cidence that Prof. Lee and Mr. Cothran are both graduates of the class of 1-800, the first class to fin ish at Clemson College. The building is to be in the Italian Renaissance style of archi tecture, of vari -colored texture brick, with colored tile inserts* terra Cotta and limestone trim mings and red tile roof. The in terior finish will be of yellow nine. It is to be two stories in height, with a basement and mezzanine ftoor. It will have a frontage of l420 feet and will contain about : .'1(5,000 square feet of floor space. It- will be heated by steam and liffh ted by electricity. The basement will contain a large room, 35 by fit feet, suitable for basketball games, wrestling, exercising, banquets and social gatherings. Adjoining the hall will be a kitchen of ample size with modern equipment, a quick lunch room and private dining room. This will be fitted up in rathskellar style and will appeal to both students and members of the. faculty. A store for the sale of cold drinks, candies, etc., lo cated in the center of the base ment, completes this feature. Space ? is provided for three bowling alleys and for spectators. Two or the alleys will be installed ut present. Bathing facilities will be lo cated in the basement and will consist of a locker room of ample vize, shower baths and swimming pool. The pool is to be '21 by 60 feet, a standard size which will permit of official records in swim ming and other aquatic sports. It will be finished throughout with ceramic t ile. The main toilet for the building will be located in the basement, adjoining t lie locker room. The mezzanine floor will con tain spectators' galleries, storage space for the store, a large room for college publications, a com mittee room, a locker room for visiting team4, a ladies' retirinc Clemson's Agricultural Service . , K v " * room, and a men's retiring room, etch with toilet, The first floor will, have as an entrance a loggia 12 feet wide,v floored with quarry tile. From thiH loggia one will enter a large lobby flanked with rooms for games, reading and correspon dence, lounging and smoking. A ladies' room for club and church meetings is provided on this floor. The main offices of the building will be located directly in front of the main entrance on the rear side of the lobby. 0 Ait auditorium with a seating capacity of 400 is to the rear o? the lobby. , The lobby and adjoining rooms are to be fitted out with large, comfortable chairs and lounges and are to be made attractive and homelike. The pame room will have French windows opening upon the terrace over the swim ming pool. On the second floor will be a large hall, specially planned and suitably equipped for the use of literary societies and other stu dent organizations. \ On the south side of the build ing nine well equipped bed rooms win be provided, one of which will be reserved for the secretary and one as his piest room. The others will be reserved for the use of the alumni when they visit their alma mater. The north side of this floor will be devoted to Bible study rooms and a hall for the use of the local lodge of Ma sons. The entire building is^ to be made as attractive as possible for the cadets, giving them a home like place where they can spend their unemployed time pleasantly and profitably. While providing primarily for the cadets, ample Provision has also been made for le alumni, faculty and people of the college community. SUMMER SHORT* COURSES A Pleasant and Profitable Vaca tion. Clemson College is this summer offering a four weeks' COUree in agriculture and cotton grading. The course begins August 9th and ends September 4th. The school will be arranged so that one can get just what he most needs. During the first week the subject of dairying will be taught, the second week animal husban dry, and the third horticulture. For the last week of the course agronomy, which includes field crops, soils, fertilizers, etc., will be the chief subject. Any one interested in agricul ture will find it to his advantage to attend this school when the sub ject he is specially interested in is being taught. v A special course for teachers of agriculture has been arranged and four weeks spent at Clemson will result in greatlv increased efficiency. Four weeks* instruction will also bo given the winners in (ho Boys' Corn Club work of the State. Clemson College inaugurates the first summer school in the , South for ministers interested in rural affairs. A ten-day course ? August 9th to August 20th, in clusive ? h^s been specially de signed for them. The entire equipment of the ag ricultural department will be at the disposal of those taking the four weeks' courses. The farm, dairy, dairy barn and all the lab oratories will be open for uso in instruction. ? Popular lectures will be given each evening by some member of the faculty or other lecturer prom inent in State or national affairs. The college library will be open during the whole four weeks with its 30,000 books and many popu lar magazines. Persons wishing to spend a va cation under the direction of a competent faculty, with tho ad vantages of well equipped labora tories, will find Clemson College an ideal place for summer. "Reinforcing" Manure. Manure is the best of all crop producers, but manure needs "re inforcements" to bring out its greatest value and to supply mat ter in which it is deficient. Be sides, the farms are few and far between that produce enough manure to fertilize fill the land, even by the most careful live stock farming and by adding brought feeds to the crops grown and re turning all manure to the soil. ! Manure is especially deficient in phosphoric acid and where a crop is fertilized entirely with manure the addition of acid phosphate ! will increase the yield. On sandy ilands, manure will not contain j enough potash to produce the beat croos. Bog choi .era and HOW TO CONTROL IT There are two principal meth ods of preventing hog cholera ; one by tne uae of serum, and the other l>y taking care to avoid the methods of spreading the disease, which are here outlined briefly. Hog cholera is spread bv fail ure properly to dispose of tne car cases of dead hogs. Buaeards, dogs and other animals feeding upon these carcasse# can carry in fection to other premises. All car casses should be Durned or buried immediately, and buzzards should be destroyed in communities where they are not protected by law. In communities where these scavengers are thus protected, the law should be repealed and the birds destroyed. Another very common method of spreading hog cholera is walk ing through yaras or fields where side hogs are kept and carrying the infection on shoes and cloth ing to other premises where healthy hogs are confined. It should be remembered that dis charges from hogs infected with cholera are very infectious, and the owners should not go or allow any of their help to go on prem ises where there are pick hogs. Neither should they allow their neighbors to go among their hogs when cholera exists in the com munity. Healthy hogs shoulll be cared for by persons who have not been where the disease exists, and no one else should be allowed near the healthy drove. Cholera may be spread by streams receiving drainage from infected premises, by buying hogs from premises where tne disease exists, or from public stock yards, or by failure to isolate newly pur chased hogs until their freedom from disease has been ascertained. These three matters deserve care ful attention. When cholera exists in a neigh borhood every hog owner should establish a strict quarantine/ 6ft his individual premises. When the disease exists on adjoining JarmsJiogs should- be protectee by" injection with anti-nog chdlera serum. The sudden death of one or two hogs should lead the owner to sus pect cholera. If upon examina tion of the carcasses cholera lesions are found, all healthy hogs should be moved at once to new lots or pens until they can be in jected with serum. A farmer finding cholera among his hoes should at once ap ply to the Veterinary Division, Clemson College, for serum, which is to be had at actual cost of manufacture, and should se cure the services of his county farm demonstration agent, who has been instructed in the use of serum. It is the duty of all citizens to see that the State law relative to prompt disposal of carcasses is strictly enforced. BUTTERMILK THAT IS BETTER AND CHEAPER All bacteria, do not make trouble and doctors' bills: Some of them I make . buttermilk and buttermilk is a friend to health. It is a cheap beverage and a good one, and is an excellent food besides.. Its nu tritive value is high, two quarts of buttermilk being equal to about one pound of beef steak. It has also a good medicinal effect. Good buttermilk can be made artificially as follows: Add to every gallon of skim milk about half pint of whole milk and enougn "starter" or clabber to cur dle the mixture in six or seven hours at ordinary living-room temperatures. When the mixture is thoroughly curdled put it in a churn and churn it for half an hour. After churning, cool the mixture down to well water tem perature to prevent its getting too sour. After cooling, strain through cheese cloth to remove any lumps or curd. This simple process will give a good, refreshing, tasteful bev erage that is both enjoyable and healthful. To produce good crops of cot ton and corn, frequent and shal low cultivation is necessary. Fail ure to cultivate properly is one way of farming at a loss. It is never too late to use the split log drae:. This is one of the best implements ever invented for improving roads and, accordingly, malringi life on tho farm pleas anter. * Hogs fattened on peanuts and finished of! on corn make hams that rank in quality and flavor with the finest meat that can be obtained TICK ERADICATION. Great progress was made last year in tick eradication. A larger area (approximately 4.000 souare miles) was release! from State and Federal quarantine than in any one year since the work ,jvas| organised along systematic lines. Still greater progress is antici pated as a result o# thjw year's work. This is made possible by the close cooperation of the State, through ? Cfemsoh Agricultural College, and the Bureau of Ani mal Industry. United States J)<* partment of Agriculture, in their systematic manner in conducting the work, on the one hand, ana the hearty cooperation of the live stock owners and progressive citi zens of the State on the other. This work is supervised by Dr. W. K. Lewis, inspector in charge, Columbia, S. C. He and his able corps of assistants are pushing the work w^th all enegry and speed commensurate with the appropri ations made by the State and Ind eral governments, that the entire State may be released from quar antine as soon as possible. Twen ty-one counties have been re leased; the work is in progress, along systematic lines, in ten other counties and will be conducted alon^ preliminary lines in the re maining thirteen counties this year. In the free areas a great interest is being takeri in live stock im provement ; pure bred sires are be ing imported to improve the pres ent strains; more cattle are being fed during the winter months, aria with the very satisfactory method of marketing that is beinjg con ducted bv the South Carolina ex tension department in cooperation with the department of agricul ture in Washington, the live stock industry' in these sections is well on to the road of success. .In other words, the eradication of the cat tle tick is making a profitable live stock industry possible. The benefits to be derived from this work are of such a far-reach* ing nature that it behooves every public spirited citizen to lend his moral and active support to those engaged in conducting it, that our grand old State may forgff fV><v front in live slock raising, a po sition that she is especially adapt ed for and one that she justly de serves. THE COTTON RED SPIDER. During dry weather one will notice reddish areas on leaves of certain plants. It is especially noticeable on violets. The leaves soon turn brown and become dry and brittle. Many people call it rust, but if one stops to examine into the matter qlosely he will find little reddish colored mites on the under surfaoes of the | leaves. The ? ? characteristic web can also be easily noticed. This is the red spider. It is a dry weather insect, and if not stopped, it often does serious damage. The cotton red spider is one of our most important cotton pests during June, July and August. This, so far, appears to be a fav orable year, and farmers should watch tneir cotton for the first ap pearance of this piost. The dam age occurs in spots in the field. Poke weed and violet plants should not be allowed in and about plantations, while under brush slvould be kept down as far] as practicable. As soon . as the first infested {>lants are discovered they should >e carefully removed and burned. Blood red spots will show on the | upper surface of leaves attacked.. If this is not done then the insects! will spread from plant to plant and in a short time cause the ruin ation of. a large area of cotton. This migration has to take place on foot, as the insects have no wings. This makes it at once ap parent that to a great extent at least it is everybody's own prob lem, regardless of his neighbors. \Vlienever the infestation spread^ and the infested spots | become larger, one of several sprays may De given. Clemson's Graduates. The one thousand men who I have been graduated from Clem son College are holding lucrative and responsible positions in thir-" ty-threfijStates and the District of Columbia, in Cuba, Canal Zone, the Hawaiias, Philippine Islands, Germany and British East Af rica. Strong evidence of the qual ifications of its agricultural grad uates is found in the fact that numbers of them have been given employment bv the United States Department of Agriculture, whil* Clemspn^ngineering men are to be fouflcTin the largest electrical corporations in America. " 1 THE ONE-YEAR COURSE IN AGRICUL1 Realising that many yo farmers throughout the S could spare neither the time the money to take a four-year w lege* course, Clemson College i augurtfted three years ago the 01 year course in agriculture. Mail a young farmer after finishing h home school finds it impossible I take a four-year college cours The one-year course is intended i give the simple scientific princ pjee upon which good fannin rests. Jt begins October let aj ends June 1st, . j Its purpose is to take a younl man already a farmer and maid of him a better farmer. The tefttf-:. to, aunffeioi are that the applicant must be 1 years of age, must have worke< on the farm for at least threJ years and have had a commoJ school education through aboul the seventh grade. During the three sessions in which the course has been given^ 171 young men have been enrolled; These men were between 18 and 80 years old. Ill order to assist worthy young men who have accomplished something along agricultural linest there are 51 scholarship? provided for out of the yearly in come of the college. These scholars ships. are worth $100.00 per ses sion and free tuition and are awarded on competitive examina tion. One feature of the course is that it .seeks to make community lead-] ers.- In addition to agricul tural ' subjects each student ia given instruction in parliamentary practice and gets experience in or ganizing and presiding over meet ings, institutes, elb. ?It is hoped that in a few year* these men will become leaders in all things looking to the good of their communities and of the com monwealth. ? RESULTS OF TOP-DRESSING Best Times to Apply Nitrate of Soda to Corn and Cotton. Kesults obtained at the South Carolina Experiment Station show that a top-dressing with ni trate of soda gives good results on Cotton, corn and small grains. The increase is most marked during a wet yeur; because this nitrogen is already in an immediately avail able iorm, while the rotting of the organic sources does n?t pro ceed as rapidly as usual^on ac count of the excess of moistuje in the soil. The amount to apply per acre varies with the fertility of the soil and the previous fertiliza tion, but we would suggest from 50 pounds per acre on poor land up, according to the fertility of the soil. Early applications are coming* into favor. We recommend that the soda be applied to corn when it is between Knee and waist high, to cottbn just as the shapes begin to form, and to ^small grain in March. Care should he taken not to sow nitrate of soda on wet plants, because it isJLtkely to scald them. It is best to apply it just after a rain,, when the moisture has dried off the leaves of the plants, then cultivate with a mulch forming implement as soon a3 the ground is dry enough to plow. \ BAGGING GRAPES. ' "v, Grapes can be grown in almost ai \v section of South Carolina. After the grapes have set, they should be sprayed with Bordeaux mixture (see circular No. 25 is sued by Clemaon College), and then be baggea to protect them ^ ? ? J--- - -J- l\AAO "Ril (Tm from disease^irds and bees. Bag ging also prolongs the ripening season ana after ripening the grapes will hang on the vines for a longer time without spoiling. Strong Manila paper bags (sizes No. 2 and No. 3) should be used so as to resist the weather and the sharp beaks of birds. The bag should be slipped over the buncn and pinned or wired closely about the stem. A pin hole in the bottom of the bag will drain off the rain water. An inexperienced hand, can put op 600 bags a day, and an exj>e rienoed worker 2,000. It will pay you to' bag. your grapes. Farmers in the coastal plain of South Carolina should remember at this season the value of the -sov bean, which is one of their best friends and which appears to be specially adapted in all Ways to_ that region.