The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, March 21, 1895, Image 2
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^*KR» J. JHOMPSON,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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80 cent* for # monthr; 85 cent* for
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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.”
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Nov. 15—3m.
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SPAIN A THOMPSON,
Attorneys at Law,
Darlington, - - - 8. C.
Office* Id Darlington Guards' Armory
building, first floor.
Special attention given to practice in
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Typewriting and Copying.
I AM prepared to attend to this ciaa*
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and would be gl -d for those needing
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Mrs. LUCY M. NORMENT.
Darlington Lodge.
No. 7, Knights of Pythl
as, meets on l*t and 3rd
Tuksuay Evenings in
each month, at Castle
Hall, Florence street
opposite Broad. Visit
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invited.
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ui
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T HE TAX RETURNS AS PASSED
upon by the Board of Assessors
tor 1895 will be open for inspeetion, so
that claims tor Veduetion cm be
made, for a period of 20 days from
March 15, 1895. J. W. EVANS,
M14—It - Town Clerk.
iWe Never Let Up
f .. |
iior the MONEY Down. We are Giving my
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j Not For What They Are Worth.
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