Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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2 Agricultural ^ Department n How The Southern Hills g' Became Poor. pi 15y 1\ M. Yessaui, iu .So. Kuralist. tc All over J he red hills of the , Southern uplands there formerly existed it vast forest of oaks. Through long ages they added humus to the soil through their fallen leaves, dead branches and j decaying trees. There was not |( so great an accumulation of this | humus as in the more Northern torests, siuce the forests were tmore open and the leaves blew ,[ into the hollows and bottoms j and made them rich at the ex- tr pense ot the hills, while in the a] North the heavy snowfalls pack- 7 ed the forest debris down to de- ^ cay in place. Ilere and there in the Southern hills are still found remnants of solitary oaks, or little groves showing what the e, forest was beloro the while man destroyed it, destroying it not t| for economic uses, but killed the tre?s so tfcat croon cnnld be - - - ? - " II raised on the land occupied by the woods. ()| Then the labor system of the old South demanded extensive ^ areas and the virgin soil was used without regard to the future j, When it no longer paid in crops, it was turned out as "old fields" and left for the pine tree, to live on the scanty mineral matter ^ left, while the same process was repeated on new areas, till finally J where once oak forests flourished only pines are known. .1 r? ** i- - rjouon oecarae King hi me South, and all that, the soil pro (j duced was annually sent to the North and to Europe. The cotion liore made small demand on the soil, and so long as the seed ot the crop, which made the heaviest dratt on the soil, was t Kept at home, and ttsed iti making composts lor tlie land, the jdeterioration was not so rapid. But the Civil War with lis de- ^ struction came in and the Southern people were left penniless, j But they still h id command of i ^ th^ cotton supply ot the world j and came t<> the conclii ion 'hat I ; C"t;on was the onlv crr.j) worth . ( their attention, the nly crop . through which they could recoup their lallen fort unes, and .' thai with cotton tliev could buv everything ?Is * reeded better 11 . ; 1 tiian they could grow u. Under the oil s\stem the land* I J.f had heen badly treated, and un- ' der the intense devotion to the i , , 01 one crop of cot on, a ciop that demands the clea le-t of cuhivi- U, .ion, lliey still Iurtire? deplete I j ^ humus in the soil, constantly (j depending on commercial tortil- (if U *rs merely to uei a crop to soli Then, added to the one crop sv s" ol tern, came tl e oil mills, and the |( cotton fanners h id another source of revenue and another agency tor the exhaustion of llie soil The short-sighted policy of sell- ^ iiig the cot'on see I prevail* Stockmen in th? North and in >v Kurope found that in tin* meal f muiie bi the nil mills tln-y ha 1 Ihe greatest and cheapest sr u ce s|( f f pr< e111 lor sti ck leedinir, a id i u ; r i .... .. -i i H in.- <>i ? Mir-t*, ",vere <[i >'i . \v l > add I lie sale of meal t<> their -ource ot revenue, Cottonseed me d contains over 7 per cent nitrogen, neirl. - per eont <?f . . ' i to po' i-.i awl over > per cent ?i 1 ph phoric acid, and n -v iry j Toil >: the i. eal 111 i' i( ivj - the ro Sou'li ther nave be n c, ?rrie 1 ' !! 1 -10 poun li <>i' .. t; , 40 ( j und <?i paro | ota- . and 00 : un is oi phosphoric acid. f , During twenty month in I 01:7 - s tie-many a: one to: lit 304,370 ' as ol <>.n co t >: seed ^ meal Tnat is, she bought I'd, S' 262,560 pounds of phosphoric acid, all ol wli ch came Irom our Southern soils. 1 lie amount sold j| to (lermany was hut a small part ?i ol what went to all Kurope. Yet | an enormous drain was made on m THE LA >utheru lands m even what eat to Germany alone. Then 'lie Northern Slates took lmense amounts, too. Is it iy wonder, tlreu, that the outheru soils have become o >i? At the price at which the cotMi seed meal was sold to Cier tany, the nitrogen in it brought bout 15 cents per pound. The inner who sold it did not get iat much lor it. The potash nil phosphoric acid brought bout 5 cents. A crop of only 0,000,000 hales would make bout 1,750,000 tons of cotton ?ed meal. From the best stantics available, three-fourths of lis amoun' is exported, or ,312.500 tons of cotton seed teal sent from the Southern soils tinuall v. This means that 183,50,000 pounds of nitrogen, 52,U0.000 pounds of actual potash nd 78,750,000 pounds of phoshoric acid would be seut abroad om the soils of the South in iren a 10,000,000-bale crop. But imitting that the nitrogen and le other ingredients were sold t the prices named, what are ie Southern farmarn fimncr fr jpair this waste? Thousands f them are buying the low rade' ?8-2-2? fertilizers, ir hich they pay 20 cents per ound for nitrogen, alter they ave sold the same article foi >ss than 15 cents per pound, ad are using of this about 20C ounds per acre. That is, they re put ting back about four pound* er acre of nitregen and foui ounds per acre of potash, altei iking ten times as much from ie soil and selling it at lowei gures. It is any wonder then lat the Southern soils are be aming exhausted ot phosphoric cid, potash and nitrogen? Is any wonder that the land ownrs get pool while selling theii roducts tor less than they pay ir ihe same thing? What is the remedy? In the ist | lace, more cit'lo and mort leiling otthe cotton seed pro lie's at home. In the second lace, the adoption ol a rotation i which, through ihe more liet'al u-e ol potash, and phos hoiic acid, 1 t>ey can get all the i'rogpn needed and far more ian they pav -o high a price ?r no'v. th(<>u_'i the growing nd k-etiin.v >1 the legume crops, ee ol c s1. Four pr,unds of potash per jr.- v* 1: never tiring li iCa f.?rt\ ootids that h tv -been taken and >1 ' Irom 'i, utd four ponn - ol Hrotren restored t?? ?tie soil is illy about two-thirds ot what at ure would give to everv ace i toe alumni rainfall What I'eet. then, o n -i ii an applicaon h ive on crops, when l>\ enuiraidng the gr >w'h ol the cow eas in applic it ion of 100 poundif muriate o? pot as u and .'100 lc )() pounds of acid plio-phale r acre, would give th on an nch nitrouen as fti *v would get orn a whole ton ol low-grade ? 'J-'J?f:oods. 'I'Iih ret urn <>t ip manure liom th? peas fed ould forever do away with any -(I for the purchase ol nitro m. 1 h" (' itt'in crop following oil a fertilized pes crop would ) va-llv bettor than it is now ith the direct application of e litlle dribble of low-irride lxed fertilizer. The i-ellintr o* ni'roepu in cot.1 M'i'd meal would matter litlor I ha' < in be rotten back lar-rei amounts by a jiood a ion. I' in i h w iste ol t h meral elements, p >la-di and lo-pll'M i ueul, hiell once me Irom ' h ? s ,i mast b?* r-? i el arti!ifi' 11 v, *; at n >s mos' ?j i vil i b soil i oi the Sooth, i il I li rfti i i# It -./.I, . . . , - ... .1*11 I ' |?U 'I* ..t 11, ii nitrog< n ? il i l<? ro o or?<l. nk I'ain Tablets Dr.Shoop's stop eailnchp, womanly pains, any pain, lywhere, in JO minutes surf Kuril la on the 25c. box. Ask your (Iruir>1 or iloctor ahouf the formula?it's le. Fuuderburk Pharmacy. w BOASTER NEWS, SEPTEM PELLAURA. 1 Dr. Babcock's Study in Italy of the Disease that has Made its Appearance in this Country?What Tillman Says About it. Paris Cable to New York World. Traveling with United Sta'es Senator Tillman, who it* at prosen' staving at the Hotel Albany, is Dr. Baboock, superintendent of the South Carolina Insane Asylum. i n. r>? u i_ , i : l- . iji. DtiuuuuK uunug ins iour Ins made observations on a pe ; culiar mental disease called pellagra, and his findings may have a great economic influence in the United Stales. 1 Dr. Babcock had noticed tho ' presence of the disease in various ' Southern States, particularly 1 Georgia and the Carolinas, and ' evjn as far west as Texas. Be ' fore his departure from Ameri1 ca pellagra was thought to be ' unknown there, and it was some ' lime before Dr. Babcock diagnosed it. 1 During his travels in Daly I rv ? ? t iii vr. oaDcoCK naa several interviews with Dr. 1'avoue, who ir the head of the Italian board of public health, aud is the recognized European authority on pellagra. He gave Dr. Babcock facilities ? lor examining cases ot pellagra ' in Italian hospitals, and as a rer suit ot his investigation Dr. Bab' cock is certain the American disease is pellagra. The disease is caused by oat1 ing diseased or fermented corn. It is particularly rite in the 1 Lombary district, where not vuvuh1* rtlivi ail. ill O VCI1 : to the corn. 1 The economic importance of Dr. BabcocK's discovery was ex plained by Senator Tillman. He said that alter the civil war the South abandoned corn growing t, ' on a large scale because such > high prices were obtainable for _ I cotton. The South, tie said, was ''therefore compelled to import 1! corn from other States which 1 were not nearly so favorable tor j cotton growing. ' Some of this corn, he said, is ' di.-eased in the pith, that is the ' nitrogenous part, hut as the > outer, starchy part is still good > all is ground up for hominy or meal. This is the origin of pellagra ' j in the Southern State-. i<> ' I si mi |> it out there must cither I Mb.- a rigorous inspection of corn I or the South must pu* a h^rru-r I nsiaiust o< rn grown in other I ' Stales andr evertjto corn growing I \ clever, popular Candy Cold < tire I Tablet?called Pieventies?is being I dispensed t?y druggists everywhere In a few hours, Prevent irs are said to L i, break any cold?completely And I , I Preventic*. being so >afc and tooih- J ; mmiM nr.* v rv lii,*. I'or r> > I.I -** > V.* (Quinine, no laxative. nothing har-di nor sickening, linx of I* Sold hy Ftinderburk Pharmacy w Tar Heel Farmer Predicted the Floods. i Monrod hnquirer: A. few . weeks ago Mr. Santord Smith, of 1. ino- (Ire k township, fold us tlnu there would he rains enough I ' ] O ll ?f>'i all low lands hetore the I jsiiiuin r was over, tor the lni.s, I | winch burrow in dm earth, in - _/ little tilings which make nolo* r in the ground and live in tie.n, knew hy iii~iiii?'i, or otherwise, I what was cming and had ett i in it ioi'i im ui 1: iiud.i ,tti ?it | wide op'-ii so l hey could -.I'M (i li. ' In drv seas ms 'ho openings t. >'l I lieso homes t tim iit 1 hurrn ?- B iiij.' folks :i?? c o- <1, <() ho I ! . 8 i people who kno r =il>o'i uo'.i I ! tii H .'s fell us | TltPu TaIip 11? ?? kintc Out J V,... } ' I tinvt* used l>r. King's New Life Pills for iiinii> years, with increasing satisfaction. Tliey take the kinks nut ot stomach, liver and howels, without O fuss or friction," says N. II. lirown, of Pittslleld, Vt. Guaianteed satisfactory at J. T. Mackey & Co.. and Punderbuik l'hanuacy. 2$c. w IBER 2, 1908 h I Williams-IIiioIim (V II I V V Jl I M1UII1M Ift^ * \ rvr w v m hh W 0 carry a full stock I f of trunks and suit | cases. .*. .*. .*. .*. .*. | Let us quote some | | prices to you. ,\ .*. .*. f ( J*. Williams-lliiglios Co. 5?K 5^; rr\r\r\ wr I I UUUL/ nJL VV O I FOR = ! EVERYBODY < TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS 1 ====- -4 Worth of Merchandise at Actual Cost. We mention a few Items ' JUDGE FOR YOURSELF 15.00, 18.00 and 20.00 Men's Suits 10.00 and 12.50. 10.00, and 12.50 Suits at 7.50. 7.50 Suits at 4.98. RIG LINE TO SELECT FROM 10 dozen Men's 2.00 Pants only 1.48. Ladies'fine shoes, Button and Small sizes 75 cents or men's Pat Leather Oxfords 75 cents. Good Brogan 08c. 10 dozen Ladies' Linen Skirts worth 1.25, at 88c. 5000 yards Embroidery and Inserting, sold at 10, 12 1-2 and 15c. Your pick at 8 1-8 cents yard. Wear Guaranteed Silk, yard wide at 82 1-2 cents. Androscoggin Bleach, 12 yards for 1 00. Nice line Sample Shirts, Suspenders, Hosiery, Lie., at less than Manufacturer's cost. .' .* .* .* .* .* . .* 2000 yards good Sea Island at 5 cents yd. And a Hundred other things. You can save money by buying from us. .* .* .* . .* Yours to serve, I ** i Funderburk Co. DRnJpMT^?LSH W- P- nOB1 NSON * ~ ' .. , ATTOHNKY A I I,\\Y llice hi hmmoun nuiloing <>p- J pogite First National Hank. M,ioe ,,v"r ?? <?.-Jones Co.'., rttore. Phono No. 8. I.ANl Art I KK, rt. C. LANCAMTKlti S. C- Prompt uttention to business.