Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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v A PIN PICTUSB OP to TO PUBS AND STANDAID^ Walterbon* S. CL* Jvm % 1915. . # f - iol8Mto8M. Oriff- ww bat two ooom Umr m» 1A. Ib Pktare a eovmty attota of 1,500 with atetalj bmldtogi placed at aiermted points to form X at irregular circle of Half a in diameter. Inclose in this circle a beautiful grore of native oaks, threaded by smooth drive- wavs 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, of Caesar’s Head, Whitesides and other lofty peaks of the Blue Ridge. Think of these mountains as in summer clothed with ver dure, standing out black against the hop son, and in winter often white with snow. Take for the southern boundarv a river of In dian lineage and follow in its sweeping crookedness the swift and turbulent Seneca as it twists this way and that to mark the confines of the estate. And to this setting add broad expanses of river bottom lands green with cora^ steep hillsides sinuous with level grassy terraces and cool pas tures with winding brooks and graceful shade trees and you have a picture of Clemson College, not colored to suit the canvas of an artist, but as seen every year by nearly a thousand young South Carolinians who seek, amid these surroundings, an education that will prepare them for self-respect ing,-seli-suppoPing citizenship. A Storied Spot Clemson College is a unique blending bf the cud and the new, of the historic with the now. dipt across the road from the cadet dormitories, which every session house over 800 young men, and in sight of the new electric power station that day or night beats as the industrial heart of the com munity, is the white columned mansion of the illustrious John C. Calhoun. One can almost pic ture the great statesman, as with hands behind him he paces the avenues of cedar and oak, putting into form those matchless ideals of patriotism whose fulfillment he never lived to see. About 50 yards to the rear of the mansion is a queer little one- story room structure with col umned porch to match the man sion. This was the “study” of the great statesman, and here were written many of his great ora tions. Under this little study, which is about 20 feet Mjuart, is dug a deep pit in which ice cut in winter wag stored for summer use. How the seasons must have changed, for only during one or two winters of the 20 which the writer has spent in the “up coun try” has ice formed in sufficient thickness to justify such ample storage. Ip the old mansion are many historic relics, including a chair used by Gen. George Washington, and a seven foot mohair-covered lounge on the hack of which is carved the American eagle. It is said that the engraving on our coins was copied from this carv ing. The old mansion with its his toric memories, the i**er of the Hermitage, Mount- Vernon ami -Montioello. is a priceless State and national asset, ami should be perennial source of inspiration to succeeding generations of young South Carolinians who are pri ilegvd to live for four years in shadow of its historic walls. Many are wont to ask why tlie college iloes not hear the name of Calhoun, instead of the name of his son-in-law, Thos. G. Clemson. The answer is that nowhere does it appear in the records that Mr. Calnoun ever wished or planned the erection of an' industrial aud technical college on the old home stead.. The complete storv of Mr. Clemson*s part in tlie founding of the college is too long to be told here. . A Vast Plant. * * The college tract contains over 1,500 acres. On the property there are 23 principal public buildings. 70 dwellings and f>4 minor buildings. The college has in its employ 401 teachers, officers and laborers. Its inventoried property 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 sta tion, the college maintains two branch e\|»erinient stations—one near^Sutninerville and the other at Fljipcnce. One more to lie situ- * ated in the sand hill sectioh of the State, just us soon as funds will permit, will complete r a system representing the principal soil n types of the State. Bat the t College hove not only organized on efleient system of fertilizer in spection and analysis, by which toe fanner gets value received from the tax he pays, and built and maintained a great agricul tural and mechanical college, bat they have gone a step farther than is required by their compact with the people and have sought to re turn to those who pay the tax in the shape of direct service, all that could be spared 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 * V Clemson’s Agricultural Service. lobby Association Structure Now Being Built st Agricultural College Will Cost $75,000, and Will Rank Among Finest in Entire South. • Just north of the textile school at Clemson College there 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 I oung Men's Christian Association, one of the association structures in the South, and one of the finest col lege association buildings in the country. It is costing $» 5,000 and was made possible by the generosr itv of Mr. John D. ftookefeller, who donated $50,000 on condition that $25,000 more should be forth coming. The College trustees ap propriated $15,000, 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 on the building is pro gressing well. and the contract calls for completion before Jan uary 1, 1910. The work is not be ing done by the college, but by contract. The successful bidder is Mr. Thomas W. Cothran of Greenwood.. The architect is Prof. R. E. I>ee, head of the division of drawing and architectural engi neering at Clemson. It is k coin cidence that Prof. Lee and Mr. Cothran are both graduates of the class of 1890. the tirst class to fin ish at Clemson College. The building is to lie in the Italian Renaissance style Of-archi- teoturr. of vari-colored texture brick, with colored tile inserts, terra cotta and limestone trim mings and red tile roof. The in terior finish will lie of yellow pine. It is to l>e two stories in height, with a basement and mezzanine floor. It will hate a frontage of 120 feet and will contain al>out 30,000 souare feet of floor space. It will lie heated by steam and ighted by electricity. s^The basement will contain a large room. 35 by 04 feet, suitable for basketball games, wrestling, exercising, banquets and social gatherings. Adjoining the hall will he a kitchen of ample size with modem equipment, a quick lunch room and private dining room. This will lie fitted up in rutli-kellar style and wil^ appeal to both students and memliers of the faculty. A store for the sale of cold drinks, candies, etc., lo cated m the center of the base ment, completes this feature. £pace is provided for three ing alleys and for spectators. Two of the alleys will be installed at present. , Rathing ‘facilities will he lo cated in the basement and will consist of a locker room of ample si*e. shower baths and swimming pool. The pool is to be 21 by 60 feet, a standard size which will fiennit of official records in swim ming and other aouatic sports. It will be finished throughout with ceramic tile. The main toilet for the building will be. 1 oca fed in the basement, adjoining the locker rooms 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 teams, a ladies’ retiring room, and a men** retiring room, each with toilet The firet floor will have as an entrance a loggia 12 feet wide, floored with quarry tile. From this loggia one will enter a large f flanked with rooms for reeding and coirespon- lounging end smoking. A room for club and church meetings is provided on this floor. The mein offices of the building will be located directly in front of the main entrance on the rear side of the lobby. An auditorium wifh a seating pacity of 400 is to the rear of the lobby. The lobby and. ad joining rooms are to be fitted out with large, comfortable chairs and lounges and lire to be made attractive and homelike. The game 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 wul be provided, one of which will be reserved for the secretary and one as his guest room. The others will be reserved for the use of tlfe ^lumni when they visit their almJViater. 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 the alumni, faculty and people of the college community. HOG CHOLERA AND , HOW TO CONTROL TT TICK ERADICATION. SUMMER SHORT COURSES A Pleasant and Profitable Vaca tion. Clemson College is this summer offering a four weeks’ course 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. A special course for teachers of agriculture has been arranged and four weeks spent at Clemson will result in greatly increased efficiency. Four weeks’ instruction will also be given the winners in the Boys* Com 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 io August 20th. in clusive—has lioen specially de signed for them. The entire equipment^ the ag ricultural department will be at the disposal of those taking the four weeks’ courses. The farm, dairy, dairy’ bam and all tlie lab oratories will lie open for use in instruction. Popular lectures will be given each evening by some member of the faculty or other lecturer prom inent in fctate or national affairs. The college library’ will be open during tlie 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 the ad vantages of well equipped labora tories, will fi«d 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 all 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 lands, manure will not contain enough potash to produce the beet crops. There are two principal meth ods of prerenting hog cholera; one by the use of serum, and the other by taking care to avoid the methods of spreading the disease, which are here outlined briefly. Hog cholera is spread by fail ure properly to dispose of toe car cases of dead hogs. Buzzards, dogs and other animals feeding upon these carcasses can carry in fection to other premises. All car casses should J>e burned dr buried immediately, and buzzards should be destroyed in communities where they are not protected by law. In communities whert 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 yanls or fields where sick 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 pholera are very infectious, and the owners should not go or allow any of their help to go on prem ises where there are sick hogs. Neither should they allow their neighbors to go a nong their hogs when cholera exists in the com munity. Healthy hogs should 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 the 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 on his individual premises. When the disease -wrists on adjoining farms hogs should be protected by injection with anti-nog cholera serum. ^ The sudden death of one or two hogs should lead\the owner to sus pect cholera. If upon examina tion of ’ the ckrcasses 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 hogs 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. Great progress was made last year in tick eradication. A larger area (approximately 4.000 souare miles) was released from State and Federal quarantine than in any one year Since the work was organized along systematic lin**- Still greater progress is antici pated as a result at this year’s worj^. This is made possible by the close cooperation or the State, through -Clemson Agricultural College, and the Bureau of Ani mal Industry, United States De partment of Agriculture, in their systematic manner in conducting the work, on the one hand, and' the hearty cooperation of the live stock owners and prop^ssive citi zens of the State on the other. This work is supervised by Dr. W. K. I>wis, inspector in charge, Columbia, S. C. He and his able corps of assistants are pushing the work with all enegrv and speed commensurate with tbe appropri ations made by the State and Fed 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 along preliminary lines in the re maining thirteen counties this year. In the free areas a great interest is being taken in live stock im provement ; pure bred sires are be ing importea to improve the pres ent strains; more cattle are being fed during the winter months, and with the very satisfactory method of marketing that is being con ducted by 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 tnay forge to the front in live stock raising, a po sition that she is especially adapt ed for and one that she justly de serves. THE ONE-YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTTRE Realizing that many young fanners throughout the State could spare neither the time nor the money to take a four-year col lege course, Clemson College in augurated three years ago the one year course in agriculture. Many a young farmer after finishing his home school finds it impossible to take a four-year college course The one-year course is intended to give the simple scientific princi ples upon which good farming rests. It begins Qctolier 1st and _ ung begins Qctolier 1st and ends June 1st. ' . _ Its purpose is to take a youne man already a farmer and make of him a better farmer. The requirements for admission are That the applicant must lie is years of age, must have worked on the farm for at least three • years and have had a common school education through about the seventh grade. During the three sessions hi which Ihe course has been given. 171 young men have been enrolled These men were between 18 and 30 years old. In order to assist worthy young men who have accomplished something along agricultural lines, there are 51 scnolarship'- provided for out of the yearly in come of the college. These scholar ships are worth $100.09 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 is given instruction in parliamentary practice and gets experience in or ganizing and presiding over meet mgs, institutes, etc. 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 monwealth. le com RESULTS OF TOP-DRESSING BUTTERMILK THAT IS BETTER AND CHEAPER All bacteria do not make trouble and doctors' bills. Some of them make buttermilk and buttermilk is a friend to health. It i^a cheap beverage and a good one. and is an excellent food liesides. Its nu tritive value-is high, two quarts of buttermilk being equal to about one pound of l>eef steak. It has also a good medicinal effect. Gooa buttermilk can be made ^artificially as follows: Add to every gallon of skim milk about half pint of whole milk and enough “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 chum 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, reireshing, tasteful bev erage that is both enjoyable and healthful. To produce, good crops of cot ton and co^-n, frequent and shal low cultivation is necessary'. Fail ure -to cultivate properly is one way of farming at a loss. i It is never too late to use the split log drag. This is one of the best implements ever invented for improving* roads and, accordingly, malring life on the farm pleas anter. . 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 closely he will find little reddish colored mites on the under surfaces of the leaves. The characteristic web can also be easily noticed. This is the red spider, ft 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 vear, and farmers should watch their cotton for the first ap pearance of this pest. The dam age occifrs in spots in the field. Poke weed and violet plants should not be allowed in and about plantations, while under brush should Ik* kept down as far as practicable. As soon as the first infested lants are discovered they should ie carefully removed and burned. Blood red spots will show on the upper surface of leaves attacked. It 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- f iarent that to a great extent at east it is everybody’s own prob lem, regardless of his neighbors. Whenever the infestation spreads and the infested spots become larger, one of several sprays may be given. Hogs fattened on peanuts and finished off on com make hams that rank in quality and flavor with the finest meat that can be obtained. Best Times to Apply Nitrate of Soda to Corn and Cotton. Results 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 year, because this nitrogen i 1 - alreadv in an immediately avail able form, while the rotting of the organic sources does n'ot pro ceed as rapidly as usual on a< count of the excess of moisture in the soil. The amount to apply |*t acre varies with the fertility of the soil and the previous fertili/a tion, but we would suggest from 50 pounds per acre on poor lam I up. according to the fertility of* the soil. Early applications are comihp into favor. We recommend that the soda be applied to com when it is between-Knee qpd waist high, to cotton just as the shapes begin to form, and to small grain in March. Care should be taken n <r to sow nitrate of soda on wet plants, tiecati** it is likely t»» scahi them. It is best to apply it ju t after a rain, when the moist up has dried off the/leaves of tin plants, then cultivate with > mulch forming implement as soon as th<? ground is dry enough to plow. C Clemson’s Graduates. > * The one thousand men who have been graduated from Clem- sort College are holding lucrative and responsible positions in thir- tv-three States 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, while Clemson engineering men are to be found in the largest electrical corporations in America. BAGGING GRAPES. Grapes can be grown in aim* t anv section of South Carol in i After the grapes have set. thc\ should be sprayed with Bordeaux mixture (see circular No. 25 is sued by Clemson College), anil then lie bagged to protect them from disease, birds and liees. Bag ging also prolongs the ripening season and after ripening the grapes will hang on the vines for a longer time without spoiling Strong Manila .paper bags (si/*- No. 2 and No. 3)-sbould be um I so as to resist the weather and th sharp lieaks of birds. Tbe bag should be slipped ‘»vt t the bunch and pinned or win I closely about the stem. A pin h"h in the bottom of the bag " drain off the rain Water. An inexjierienced hand can p •' on 500 bags a day, ami an exj rienced worker 2,000. It will p ' you to bag your grapes. Farmers in the coastal plain of South Carolina should reinemU i at this season the value of the \ bean, ^rhich is one of their I"-’' friends and which*,appears t<< specially adapted in all way* tr that region. '*.*♦* X