The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 06, 1920, Page FIVE, Image 5
FERTILIZER SITUATION
OUTLOOK FOR COMMERCIAL
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FJLIAAVI fUUi/ ovuji**
P Trices Not So High As They
f ; Were, But Materials Are
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Atlanta. Ga.?A survey of the fertilizer
situation by those familiar with
It indicates that there may be a short^
age of commercial plant food in 1920.
W The reasons assigned for thi3 are prini
cipaly that strikes have interfered
with the production of materials. In
t addition, there has been some diffif
culty in obtaininf shipments over the
railroads. j
thp lone drawn
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out strike o? miners in the rock phosphate
fields of Florida prevented a
supply of rock phosphate be in 4 shipped
to the factories. This and the difficulty
of getting prompt shipments
when thr mines re?umed work, it is
claimed, has put the manufacture of
acid phosphate more than tnree
months behind, besides reducing the
possible supply.
As to ammoniates or nitrogenous
materials, it is pointed out that the
coal and steel plant strikes greatly
reduced the possible output of eulphate
of ammonia. Tankage and cottonseed
meal are so much in demand
as feed as to be unavailable or too ex
\n
pensive to use as xenuisera. titrate
of soda is being shipped in larger
amounts, bnt not as cheaply as was
expected. It seems that the demand
lor nitrate of soda in the orient, especially,
has kept up the price higher
than was anticipated.
As for potash, there is going to be
a fair supply, the first time since the
European war began. A considerable
amount of notash has been shipped
from Germany to France, while there
is quite an accumulataion of stocks
of desirable American-made potash on
hand.
The Soil Improvement Committee
of the Southern Fertilizer Association,
with headquarters in Atlanta, is sending
out information to southern farmers
urging them to order their fre*
M 1? ? 3 phiTV_
tinzers eari) <niu iut immruiaiu o^
ment. The reasons given are that
there is going to be great difficulty
in supplying the demand, and the
sooner it is known how muc'i the
farmer wants, the sooner the manufacturer
will know how big a job he
ha#? on his hands and how hard he
must work to accomplish as much of
it as possible.
It is also stated that the rairoada
are anxious that fertilizers be ordered
early so that they may be able to provide
cars, else there will be a serious
difficulty in getting fertilizers delivered
on time. The railroads are also
insisting on full carload shipments,
which makes it necessary to have orders
early so as to consolidate them
into full carloads.
It is stated that the indications are
that thorp will hf? a heaw demand for
fertilizers throughout the South this
year on account of the promising
prospects for southern crops. It is
stated, also, that the orders coming
in to the factories reveal that the
farmer is now wanting higher grade
fertilizers than ever before.
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t DfiicnMiuc Dm i turrifii
v ruiuuivuu vcll iillsjl
What is claimed to be the most effective
method yet devised for combatting
the boll weevil is that of poi
soning it with calcium arsenate. The
method was perfected by B. R. Coad
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, at the Tallulah, La., station,
after several years of experimenting.
The weevil is poisoned by
dusting the cotton at night or while
the dew is on, using a dusting machine
to apply it. The material poisons
the dew on wbich the weevil depends
for his drinking water. The
weevil is killed, but there is another
generation batoning out. so inai me
poison must be applied three or four
times at a week or ten days intervals.
Experiments show that the weevil
can be kept down to such an extent
that they can not do serious damage.
The cotton eaved is worth far more
than the cost.
It is important that the right kind
of calcium arsenate be used. There
are different kinds, made for different
purposes. The wrong kind may
be too weak to kill weevils, or too
etrong and injure the cotton plant
There is no uee to begin dusting
the cotton plants before about t?n
oat of every 100 equares are punctured
th* weevil. It will be a waste of
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money IU UUUC luiac LU op J. a. j a uciu
thoroughly to when there are fewer
weevils in the field. While it will
kill practically all that are alive, the
cew hatch will have to be taken cr.re
of by subsequent sprays. It is not advised
that any one undertake to dust
the plants wi'h anything: el?e than the
regular dus'ins machines. The pole
ard beg methods has cot proven
cessful.
T>*: ..ison rnrtenal will cos1 foi
four app-ic .fions Jicm $S to $4 por
; BRED GREAT MEN
Italian City of Florence May
Claim High Honor.
i
!
j Birthplace of Many of Those Who
1 " 1 Ahilitv and
ndni^i in
Achievement, Far Above th#
Rest of Mankind.
j At rirsj Thought on*1 would he apt
; to claim for London, the grt?;it raetrop'
oli?. rht- honor of hnvini; giveD birth
; ro the {rre:itfst number of (he world's
gent uses.
! Amor.? oth*r profit Londoners the
following DJi.^ht be Hred: Francis P>acon.
philosopher and essayist; Spcn
ser. JOiiSun, Pinion ami ftfins, ?unui
known and honored poets; Hogarth.
Turner. Watts. Millais and Hohnan
Hunt, artists whose achievements are
acclaimed by all the world of taste;
i Fox. Pitt and Beaeonsfleld. statesmen
| who have Influenced the building of
empire; Daniel Defoe. the novelist;
taraaay ann uuxiey, uie scicuupif.
and many others. All these would
stpnd in the very froDt ranks of greatness,
some of them, like Milton and
Bacon, towering above their fellow
men like mountain peuks among molehills.
The Frenchman would undoubtedly
stand up for the claims of Paris, quoting
a long list of poets and painters
and novelists and statesmen to justify
his boast.
The Italian would probably put the
question: "How far back may we go
la this quest? For If ancient Rome is
to be added to the record of the more
modern city, where will you find her
equal?"
Then Athens would lift up her classic
voice in protest, and quote a long
list of her sons who have formed the
models of all subsequent time In art
and poetry and philosophy and architecture.
to onnthcr nnmnptitop
DUi. UlCAC 10 uuviiivi ?
which can beat them all in this combat.
Compared with London or Paris,
or even Rome, it is a small place.
The city is Firenze?Florence?the
native city of Savonarola, of Fra Angelico,
of Donatello, of Botticelli, of
Leonardo da Vinci, of the mighty Michael
Angelo, the glory of his age and
of all succeeding ages; Florence, the
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ciiv oi isoccacciw, i ne uium ui umciists;
of Machiavelli, whose very name
is a proverb, and of the famous Medici
; yes. and lastly, Florence the city
of Dante, the first both in time and
position of this glorious galaxy of
stars of the first magnitude.
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HOW SUCH a SlIKtil punt; v>cj fea>c
birth to so many mighty sons of
genius is one of the standing puzzles
of heredity and environment and education.
Why does not Glasgow breed
geniuses? Nobody knows. During a
period of two hundred years Florence
was a forcing bed for supreme achievement.
During that time the little city
broke all records, ancient and modern,
and it is hard to see where her
competitor is to spring from who shall
take away her crown of laurels.
Somo War Economics.
There is probably nothing thnt
seems so useless in the eyes of th*
average person as an Irish potato
which has begun to rot, but the department
of agriculture in Its war-time
experiments has discovered that starch
can be made from a decayed potato
just as well, if not better, than from
a good one, and so the surplus stock
of the fanner or dealer need no longer
be thrown away or wasted.
in IIKe IUM1IUI1 ciiemiMS scrniuj;
j methods to avoid world-wide food
j shortages have found that sugar cani
not only be made from beets, but
f from sweet potatoes as well. The
j farmer himself can make good sirup
from his sweet potatoes by boiling
them until they can be mashed in the
water to thick, mushy liquid. To this
; ground malt is added and the result,
after properly cooking for about an
hour, is a thick sirup, which is strained
through a cloth and us>ed for any sort
of sweetening.
Modest Hero.
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i Jiy Heroic ucuuii ?ii> ui?. ??c ?cnr
! lying close up to their defenses, and
for four days had not been able to
climb out; we lay like reptiles. There
was not a dry spot; one could riot get
accustomed to it. And II?. the ensign.
had been caught on the wire when
we had started to attack. At first he
asked for help, called on the men by
name; but one could not show one's
nose without being shot. Then he only
groaiu 1 and .breathed heavily. That
went on for four days, and he still
lived. It is a sin to gf"?mble at God,
but here one says: "\Vhy be careful
I of one's soul?" I couldn't endure it
and took him oft the wire; but I got
wounded. Then these was an tack,
and our men captured the post ?London
Times.
Fire-Retarding Paints.
Frnm tests rr.adp at the federal bn
reau of standards It appears that,
while practically all paint coatings
have some fire-retarding action, none
of those so far tested afford very great
protection. All the samples in question
wore materially damn god by application
of tl Mhe for a few second*. Both
in;;! and whitewash rank
Co*;.!>:: ho^. iii.-h. These have 11: >
ad* am::; * of ?-!,"apnes?; arai can both
be u ti the sumo surface. However,
scrolling to ; reed * hrM?''i;? of >!>e hurt
: u n?- ' i ' :ae.ir <? ,i'*or oiv'Cti'<!i
ciilt '??* *>v^ ? .' ! ' *o'*\ e ;:s aTj off?
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(THE TROUSSEAU IN UHUMA
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! Ho? It Figures When Pians Are Made
for Marriage of Daughter of
Family.
i
j \Vh?mi I was r?'a y*?;ir< old my spkvi
Inx woman made a mark h<M-<> in th*4
I *
middle of my forehand. If was mad'*
l with red faee puinr and had to be rei
newed ev?*rv time I went ontside the
! f-or.ioonnd. That fdirn meant iliat i
was old enough to beeonje Lr***!.
and that my parents would consider
! offers for me. Soon after. an <>!d
i w? man carte ro st*e me. She made i:sy
serving ^'ornan remove nil my eJnth:
iu^r. Tlien looked me over. She
j made me threat! a need'e?t<> reft mv
i eve6;. She mode me sew a seam?to
! try try skill. Shs looked at my teeth,
j and nim hcd my body all over?to sre
if I was healthy. Then she went away,
i One day. when 1 was twelve. I heard
j my mother fa.'kim; abotit me?with the
! old woman who had been to see me
; before. They were talking about my
t mMfHa ii'imvin Kjlid 1
| (.'Minting. m lir- iiiiuu r
j should hav* four pairs of s>lk frous;
ers and three of cotton. I was also
to have six white undvrjrariin'nts of
i cotton, and four linen for the hot
i weather. My outer garments were all
; to he of silk. and rill must have
! embroidery about them. Two heavy
| garments were ro he liniMl with silk,
'and padded with new cotton. These
! were to wear In the cold vca'her. They
i talked half a day about my trunks.
1 The middle woman held out ihat I
should have four. all covered with pijrI
skin, hut my mother was determined
; I should have only two. At last it
was agreed that I should have three
pig-skin trunks and two boxes cov
1 ?i?k niotn r>irtth V hen they
Crt'U V> mi ^iaju w
came to an agreement about anything
a teacher wrote It down, so uiere
would be no forgetting after. He
would read It over to them often and
had to change the writing when one
or the others said they did not so understand.
The middle woman grew very
angry when they were talking about
the bedding I should have, and left
the court. A servant called her and
she returned. All the while they were
talking about me I felt most important,
for I had never before had a
value placed on me. Then I thought
I had not understood mv mother all
my life. She had always treated me
with unconcern, because I was not a
| boy, and now she was pointing out nil
i my good qualities and setting a value
1 on each of them. Then they told me
i I was to ho married. I was to marry
a man I had never seen and thev would
not even tell me his name. I asked
' my mother if h& might come to our
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j court and play wnn ine. *>m?
j me. lie lived eight miles away, and
could not come that distance just to
see me. Silly child.?Asia Magazine.
Plenty of Room Behind.
A mule was brought and tied near
the group head headquarters and some
j one asked to whom it belonged. One
j of the young second lieutenants sugj
gested that it must be the chaplain's
; mount. At the officers* mess that
! evening the joke was sprung on the
I chaplain, a dignified college professor
' In lifp>_
| "Where did you get your tint' mount
' we saw tied up out then- this afternoon,
chaplain?" queried one of the
young officers.
"From Missouri," was the prompt
answer, and without a flicker of a
smile.
"I think we ought to have the chaplain
head our review tomorrow on that
| mule, and we would all come parading
j along behind him," said the mis
cmevous lieuifiiuuu
"There is one thing certain," replied
the chaplain, "you would not crowd
j him."
Radium Production in United States.
C. H. Viol, writing in Science, states
! that the total production of radium
' element in the United States down to
' 1019 is about 55 grams, which is
| probably more than half the total
' radium produced in the world. Dur.
ing the war, with no carnotite exports,
the createst part of the world's ra
diura supply has been produced in this
country. In 301S the United State*
produced 13.6 ^rarns. With regard to
a discussion that has occurred concerning
the amount of radium that
can be produced from the carnotite
fields, Mr. Viol says that the carnotite
holdings of the Standard Chemical
j company, which comprise about 35C
I claims and are the largest holdings unj
der the control of a single concern.
: are estimated to be capable of yieldi
ing at least ">00 grams of radium.?
1 Crtiantifip American.
Twins Six Times.
J Mrs. Dowinton, a resident in
j Guernsey, has given birth to six sets
: of twins in 31 years. She also has
ten other children.
Of this remarkable family 18 are
living, and the case was reported to
the king and recommended for special
notice. Seeing that the record
| was so remarkable and that the famlly
was a deserving one, his majesty
j sent a donation.
mkj? ??, tn Hp confused with the
| 1 I1IO 10 UVV, 1V vw
j "king's bounty," which Is claimable
only in the case of triplets.?Lonflor
Chronicle.
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Makes Pine Needles.
A discovery has been patented whieh
!s of crreat interest nnd value in connection
with the ?.-\!i!e industry. }*j
! the process paten i there is obtained
! n useful suhs.'itute for cotton and jute
: ;r n*HPS. Tlie nooUiOs
fjrs- <>r j>ij r ti-'iv <" liorjii'i'ly -r-lrM*
tl?rn v ' I;, t lixod h"* iror'Ii.ia
v' : t!:c fihro!'.-: rnsT
C:\'i bo V"-? 1
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DEFIEOMOKALLAW;
Why Kaiser and H's Huns Were
Defeated.
Like Every Thing of Evil the Seeds
of Its Own Destruction Were
Born With Autocratic Madness,
Pastor Believes.
A group of nien were standing
round the firenlare at the country
club after their game of golf. They
were dlscussiug the cause of Gor-;
ratiny's defeat. One laid It to the:
food shortage, another to At:??ricau !
forces, anoihnr to the diplonn.?v of
the allied governments. whiW) h.id
ranged against Germany virtually the
whole of the civilized world. i
' Just at that point. Dr. Edgewortl 1
the pastor of a local church, joined
OI...1K1 r* r\ri thov InrnOil tit him fuT
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his opinion. The good do?i.or thought
a niomcnt, and then he said slowly,
"You meu kDow me well enough, I
think, to feel that I am not so naf?
row that every thought 1 have ends
in a church spire. And so you won't
think me guilty of a pious plaritud*
when I say that I firmly believe that
the determining factor in Germany's
' (Meat was God. j
1 ?<t\^ vah Mir.cmtwir" rnrtiniied.
I l/u f \IU ICUI\1UUV>| ?V
; **what Victor Hugo said about Napo-!
leon's defeat at Waterloo? It runs j
this way: '"Was it possible for Na- j
poleon to win at Waterloo? We au-;
swer, No. Why? Because of Wei-!
llngton? No. Because of Blucher?,
No. Because of the rain? No. Be- j
cause of God. It was time this vast,
man should fall. He bad been im- J
I poached before the throne of the in-,
j finite, and his fall had been decreed.* j
And thea Victor Hugo adds, 'Napo- 1
leon bothered God/" j
"But I don't see how Hugo can j
p?ove it," replied one of the men.
"No, he couldn't prove that the in- j
tervention of God defeated Napoleon j
at Waterloo," answered the doctor,
"not with mathematical precision. This
sort of evidence is the most ticklish
in the world, but I heard an officer
' from overseas say thai ho couia Jay j
his finger on no less than three instances
whore nothing but a miracle
saved the allies.
"There aro certain historical incidents
that get written down as bear/
ing marks of the intervention of God.
! The storm that defeated the Spanish |
I ic nnp nnd men aro begin
r.ing to look at the first battle of the
Mnrno as another. Competent authorities
tells us that the German defeat
cannot be adequately explained on
human grounds. Il* it is true, as Herbert
Spencer says, that we live in the
presence of a moral order, then something
must happ#n when that order
Is violated. That Germany violated
that order no one doubts, and when
it did so it was fighting against the
stars in their courses. 1
| "The text that has been running
through my nesci ever sine*; uti mnnj
crumpled is, 'Not by might nor by
power, but by my spirit, saith the
Lord of hosts.' and I get a lot of
comfort as I think of it. Ours is a
wonderful world. Wonderful for Its
chemistry, wonderful for its geometric
precision, wonderful for its vital processes,
but most wonderful of all for
the moral purpose streaking it like
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veins of 5>oJd. The world is piteneu
to good, fcs movement is that way,.
Eve^y evil thing has, therefore, the i
seeds of its own destruction born with'
it. Your Pharaohs, Sofinacheribs,;
Xpros, Artilas. Mohammeds, Alvas, Na-j
poleons and Kaiser Wilhelm IPs CO" ;
tinually arise, putting the nations in
fear and threatening to uproot civilization
itself. But there is always;
some rock on which their armadas j
split; some Moscow in which their ai>
mles perish.'*?Youth's Companion.
Answered.
Mrs. Hughes, wife of the Australian 1
premier, is very fond of children and
has a fund of anecdotes concerning
them.
One she is fond of telling concerns a;
visit she paid to a certain elementary
school In Melbourne shortly before j
starting for England.
Among the questions put by the mis-j
tress to her little pupils was the fol-.
lowing: j
"Cunnnsinfr Tee had hoarded a ship
[ Inst night and steamed a hundred miles ,
I due southwest, where should we be'
| oow?" the correct answer beln?. of
I course, 'Off the eoa*t of Tasmania.'" i
There was ft moment of breathless!
silence, and then a tiny girl in the
front row, who had just recently, it
transpired, returned from a rather
roucrh and stormy sea trip, piped out
shrilly:
"In the cabin, ma'am, sick."?Tit-J
Hits.
Teredo, Ship Eater.
Although it was declared that wooden
ships could be built fast enough and
strong enough to outwit the submarine,
they cannot be bnilt to escape!
^^1TT anomr fh* chfn- !
J tneir own iuu^i uc?u..r suvu,.,, t. (
\ wonn, or teredo. This animal or worm ;
' eats away the wooden ship in much the
same manner that cancer eats away,
the human body, but it is so small
when it first inserts itself into the wood
that the closest inspection fails tc
j show the warning pin hole. Once in
: the wood, however, it eats its way'
I alonir. growing steadily, and when a!
! quantity ?>f these tiny worms get into I.
a ship !lx\v turn it into a veritable.
scp.mire h'?Jvy<,o:n!u,d tunnels.
t-or?v] M>/?r i?. .^n tl>
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Indian Prince Blinded by Order of j
Brother.
The tragic story of an Indianj
prince who was. blinded by order of j
his brother after 23 years of attempt- j
ed revolts against him, is related in j
the history of the Mogul emperors of;
India during the early part of the j
Sixteenth Century.
The story revolves around the sons
of King Barbar, of the Mirza family
of emperors who lived during the
years of 2383 to 1530. He was succeeded
to the throne by his oldest
son, Humayun, while his second son,
Kamram Cirza was the governor of;
Kabul. Kamram started rebellion \
after rebellion against his brother, j
each one being accompanied by acts [
more atrocious than before.
(
During the seige of Kabul, Kamram
killed the three young children
of one of the Humayun's officers, and j
threw their mangled bodies over the \
v.-all to the beseigers. He gave the j
wife of the same nobleman to the i
vnV,ble in the bazaar, to be dirhon
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ored. In each case his brother, the
emperor, acted leniently with himr
saying that what was past was past,
and that they could again meet as
brothers.
In the year 1553, however, after
Kamram had been rebelling more or
less constantly for 23 years, Huma
yun finally followed the advice of
his councillors and ordered hisr
brother's eye lanced. Blinded, Kamram
was finally rendered harmless.
A conciliation, between the two
brothers followed. The blind man became
a pilgrim and went to Mecca,where
he died four years later.
"Isabel, since I have been on the
bor.rd of alderman I have been approached
by three different individnflls
xrhn hrvp r.hp insolence to think
they -:an buy my vote."
"That's splendid, dear. There are
so many things \vc need."?T. ife.
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