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•' ■ — sr: £hf farlmnton Jlfirs. PCBLISHKli EVKHT THI'RKDAT Morsiso. ^*KR» J. JHOMPSON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS—$1 Per Annum in Advance 80 cent* for # monthr; 85 cent* for 8 mouth*. Advertieing Rates: One Square first insertion |1.00 have a lesson to learn, and the Tillman movement, if it accom plishes nothing else, wjll at least result in our learning that lesson, which is—“moderation.” The minority should learn that the majority must rule: the majority should learn that the minority have rights that must be respected. In the mean time, i it’s a white man’s tight, and one in which the colored man should cut no figure. He is not' One Square Becond insertion 50 needed in it, and both sides 1C very subsequent insertion 50 must leave him out of it, Contract advertisement* inserted | “Two hundred pounds of lint cotton and 400 pounds of seed carry away from an acre of land six pounds of potash. “Fifteen bushels of corn car ry away from an acre of land three and one-half pounds of potash. “Half a carload of watermel ons carry away from an acre of land seventeen and three-fourths pounds of potash. “This is an immense quantity of potash removed by the water melons, as much removed by w»uld be car- Furniture, Wagons, Hams, lip, Was, Buggy and Wagon material, for | sale, and repairing of same at JOHN SISKRON’S SHOPS; uixm the most reasonable term*. THE LOT OF THE PEACE-MAKER. “Blessed are the peace-mak ers,” quoted Mr. E. Keith Dar- gan at the “peace and harmo ny” meeting held in the Opera House on Friday, referring to Mr. A J. A. Perritt, by whose efforts chiefly the meeting had Facts About Watermelons. At the recent convention of the State Agricultural Society, Dr. George F. Payne, the state chemist of Georgia, delivered a most interesting address con corning the watermelon. The statements contained in his brief address were of a peculiar ly interesting nature, especially to melon grower-, and The Con- s/ifu/ion has received so many applicati >ns for the address that Payne was requested to furnish a copy, which is pres ented as follows: Mr. President. and Gentle- been brought about. Now, it is a well known fact, that he who tekes part as a peace-maker in - a. * * a family fight generally finds cultural 8()( . iety: K Lagt 8Um £ ei out to his cost before he is (ljur attention was called to a through, that the rewards prom- statement which appears to be ised in the beatitudes have ref erence to a future state of exis tence. The political struggle now going on in South Carolina is very much in the nature of a family fight, and the would be peace maker is pretty apt to get himself in the position of one who tries to make up a quarrel between a man and his wife— with both sides turning on him in the end, and fighting him bitterly. The News has had some little experience on this line. Any pa per that takes a decided position on all public questions as they arse, is obliged to come in for a good round share of abuse; but we dare say we can stand it, knowing as we do that it is impossible to please everybody. Besides, our course on all sub jects is the one that we believe to be right, without regard to whom it pleases and whom it does not. Our unvarying oppo sition to Tillman and his meth ods has, of course, gained for us the hostility of his admirers, while on more than one occa sion we have been forced to dif fer with the people on our own side, and have had to come out openly and say so. The extremists on our side are wont to complain that we have not been sufficiently out spoken in our utterances. We defy anyone to point to a single instance of our ever having “dodged” an issue when it was presented. One may occupy a conservative position, and yet be perfectly outspoken, and that, we believe, is what we have done throughout. In the present instance, the alterna tive was presented to us of ac cepting the terms offered by Tillman in regard ts the Con stitutional Convention, or of making the fight. We prompt ly and unhesitatingly accepted the former alternative, a course which is indicative on its face Of more independence and self reliance than if we had tamely “gone with our crowd” without exercising any individual right of thought or action. The only way we could have acted right in the eyes of the extremists of our own side would be to have agreed with them. Not to take the extreme course that they wish followed is to display, in their opinion, a desire “to keep in with both sides”! How absurd! If we had wanted “to keep in with both sites” all this time, we would occupy a far more popu- se *d, or UOO po lar position than we do to-day. Wn '® fte « n bushels of corn per t+i* acre is a frequent crop, and that It is our very effort to rise above j of waterme l ons abo V t half a the trammels of our own politi-! carload. Upon such crops as a pretty well acknowledged as a fact, that watermelons cannot be successfully grown a second or third season on the same land, even with the use of ferti- tilizers. A belief is entertained by several growers with whom the matter was discussed, that if the vines of watermelons were not allowed to wither and decay in the field, a good crop could easily be raised the second season; but even if the drainage water from such fields of decay ing vines and melons, runs over land as yet unplanted in water melons, the land so impregnat ed will fail to produce a crop if planted in melons the succeed ing year. There are parties, however, who raise successive crops of watermelons on the same land season after season, with very small amounts of fertilizers. “Thinking it might possibly be a deficiency in some particu lar fertilizing material which was quickly exhausted from most soils, a watermelon was reduced to ashes to find out how much available mineral matter is removed from the soil by a fair crop. “Burning a large watermelon to ashes would not be an easy job under any circumstances, but when it must be done in a dish, holding only a small cup ful—and not a drop of juice— not a single seed—nor a piece of rind must be lost, and not a particle of foreign matter must get into the ashes from any source, it becomes indeed, quite an arduous matter. A fine, handsome, luscious watermelon is a very tempting article when sliced wide open on a hot day in July, but not a particle of it was tasted. The juice was ev aporated to a syrup, the syrup evaporated to dryness, and the residue burnt to ashes. The rinds were heated until tho roughly dry, when they would take fire and burn like so much wood. The juice, pulp, rind and seeds were finally reduced to ashes and the ashes thorough ly mixed. “The melon selected weighed twenty-five and one-fourth pounds, and was a handsome fellew of the Augusta or rattle snake variety. It was sold as having been raised within ten miles of Atlanta. The ashes obtained from this large melon would not make more than two heaping tablespoonsful. They weighed a little less than two Ounces. Over twenty-five pounds or the bulk of the watermelon, consisted of the materials ex tracted from the air soil and water. It is not necessary to reproduce the many figures and calculations of the analysis. Only the lesson they teach will be briefly stated, and for com parison will be given the amounts of phosphoric acid and ! potash taken frotn the soil by average crops of cotton and corn. A common yield of an acre in cotton is 200 pounds of lint cotton and 400 pounds of seed, or liOO pounds of seed cot- cal faction, while maintaining a vigorous fight against our real opponents, that has more than once placed us in the position of basis are the following figures calculated. Supposing that the cotton, cottonseed, corn and melons only, are removed from the field, and that the remain- having our hands turned against ing part of the plants are plow every man and every man’s ed under, 200 pounds of lint cot hands turned against us At I ton an< ^ pounds of seed car- the verv onenimr of Tillmn^. ry away from an acre of land me very opening oi iillman’s f miP onf i fourth pounds of four and one fourth phosphoric acid—fifteen bushels of corn carry away from an political career, strongly oppos ed to him as we were, we felt compelled, f o r conscientious! a " e . of land six pounds of phos- to .he Ha»heu S'T C a S5*:/“^'T^ movement—a most unfortunate from an acre of land three and movement, from the effects of j three-fourths pounds of phos- which the white people of the State are suffering to-day. The two factions must keep phoric acid. This shows that the watermelon crop does not take away from the soil scarce ly as much phosphoric acid as Carolinians {either the cotton or the corn. the soil as ried.away by three crops of cotton and cottonseed, or five crops of corn. If the cottonseed were returned to the soil and only the lint sold, over thirteen crops of lint cotton would be re quired to remove as much potash from the soil as the one crop of melons. “The nitrogen or ammonia re moved from the soil by the melon crop is not as large as might be inferred, the juice only containing about one-fif tieth of one per cent, the pulp about seven-fiftieths of one per cent, the rind about twelve-fif tieths of one per cent, and the seed about one and one-fourths per cent of nitrogen. The juice constitutes about one-half of the melon, and the seeds are a very small proportion. “A crop of cotton and cotton seed may remove twenty-nine pounds of nitrogen from an acre. “A crop of corn may remove about fourteen pounds, and a half carload of melons about as much as the corn. “The great demand then up on the land is for potash. Some soils naturally contain much potash. Clay soil being formed by the decompositi m of feld spar or granite contains more or less potash, those clays being richest in available potash which have not been too tho roughly leached. Sandy soils are not rich in potash, and when it is applied to them, it is readily leached out by the rains. The soils of the upper half of the state should, as a rule, contain more potash than those of the lower half, as the clays of the latter portion have been subject ed to more washing and trans portation, and hence leaching. “A common amount of fertili zer used to an acre of ground in Georgia is 200 pounds. Fertili zers average 10 per cent avail able phosphoric acid and 2 per cent of potash; so this would be an application of twenty pounds of available phosphoric acid and four pounds of potash, or, other words, over four times as much phosphoric acid is put back as the watermelon takes off; yet it would take over four years of such fertilization to put back the potash taken away by the one single crop of melons. No wonder melons do no'j do well thus starved to death. “As potash and available phosphoric acid cost about the same, chemical manuring can be done much more advantage ously and fully as cheaply by using more potash and less phosphoric acid. The potash should be used in the form of sulphate of potash and not as chloride or muriate of potash, as the watermelon prefers the former, as there was only a minute amount of chlorides found in the watermelon upon analysis, but a considerable quantity of sulphates. “The following is suggested as a formula for a watermelon fertilizer, which will furnish a liberal amount of potash and other fertilizing material per acre: Acid phosphate 100 pounds Sulphate of potash 50 pound* Dried blood 35 pounds “Of course a much larger quantity can be used per acre if the land is well prepared and a large crop is desired. “M. Georges Ville, the emi nent agricultural chemist of France, states as a general pro position: ‘Return to the soil by the aid of manure more calcic phosphate, potash and lime than the crops have taken out of it; restore to the soil about 50 per cent of the nitrogen of the crops.’ “The acid phosphate in the above formula furnishes ample calcic phosphate and lime “Cotton seed meal can be used in the above formula in the place of blood. If this is done, the quantity should be doubled, as cotton seed meal contains only a little over half the percentago of nitrogen found in blood. “These investigations were undertaken in the hope that they might be of some direct benefit to our people.” (0FFI\S, CASKETS and Undertakers’ supplies al ways on hand at low prices. T. C. Jeffords, Jr. Nov. 15—3m. AAAAAiJU.t.ti A A* t, 1.1 .tAAAA.tAAA I. H. SPX1SI. H. T. THOMPSOS. SPAIN A THOMPSON, Attorneys at Law, Darlington, - - - 8. C. Office* Id Darlington Guards' Armory building, first floor. 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