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W. F. MABSBA1X, MMw and Proprietor. DEVOTED TO THE PtOTECTION OF HOME AND THE VOL. XXV. GASTONIA, N. C„ FRIDAY. APRIL 1 ""-1-LU-”-1 11.... 'l ON FERTILIZING FOR COTTON. The Rational Way la to Buy Cheaslcela and Mix to Suit the Soil to be Fertilized. To lt)f> Bdllor at the fUKU; I have do apology to ofier in devoting time and apace to this ■abject. Since Jane 1891 the exports of com, wheat, meal and flour from the United Stairs aggregated *4,190,000,000; while cotton, cotton seed,* cotton oil and cotton good* for the tame period amounted to $5,900,000,• 000. This shows conclusively that cotton is "King." Statistics tell ns that the average yield of the country over is 10 bushel* of corn. 180 pounds of cotton and six bnsbcls of wheat to the acre; while statistics, equally as reliable show, that 225 bushels of corn, 2,000 pounds of lint cotton and 180 bushels of wheat have been produced per acre. This goes to show there is "something radically wrong" in the fertilisation methods, culture and management; hence ray excuse for writing these articles. It is impossible for the guano manufacturer to mix plant food so as to serve the farmers over a wide area of country. This country contains six kinds of soil, all different sod irregularly distributed. Is thers any guano maker on earth that knows the boundaries, the composition, the physical condition, tbe drainage, the texture and how mnch they have been impoverished and so forth, of the soils be pre scribes for? No. Guano is used "irrationally" whenever it is applied indiscrim inately to all soils and cropa; and in order to get your money's worth of guano it is necessary to learn from experience and observation what combination of chemicals suit* yonr soil and crops and then to buy according ly. Never "lime” cotton ground. Lime shortens growth, hastens maturity, and canses bolls to not ODcn. "Bight hundred pounds,” ex claims some one, "of phosphate per acre,” "why you'd burn the stuff up!” You want to put the guano in the ground, I presume. Yon want a "starter” to give the tender plants a ”send-off.” To do this nse 200 ponnds of nitrate of soda per acre at one time as soon as the plant can be seen along the rows; one hundred ponnds per acre this week, one hundred ponnds per sere week after next. Or, take 10 pounds nitrate soda, 60 pounds of stable manure, 30 pounds of acid and apply in the drill. The above is rational, practicable and benefi cial. 1 would rather fight crime and vidousnesa than ignorance and prejudice. I have no quarrel with "the guano trust." I am going to convince every man I can of the truth, feeling sure he will accept it; that double the guano and you double your lint cotton yield. Some men oppose progress be cause they are not originators, others because of a spirit of op position. When an agricultural writer starts out be must mtke up his mind to respect ideas and opinions of others until be has proved them untenable aod then fight the error to the death. Prejudices indoctrinated and inherited are hard to combat and it takes argument to lay tbein out. Personally it makes no difference to me whether our farmers produce a half bale to the acre or one bale per acre; but I want them to fertilise the cotton plant so as to make a large crop on a little laud. The nitrogen, phosphorus and potash are the "Big Three” of chemical fertilisers. With proper cuuivauon mu Gtre of the barn-yard manure two-thirds ? o t the farm* could be rtin without chemical fertilisers. Buy each of the three chemicals where you can get it in the cheapest aud moat desirable fora. Know what yon want before you buy. It costa any where from $7 to $9 per acre to bring cotton to ma turity and this, with or without guano, on rich land or sterile, re gardless of the yield. It costs no less where the yield la a thin) of a bale per acre or one bale. The way and the only way in which profit in cotton raising can be increased ia to increase the yield pur acre. Instead of 2-8-2, 10% gnsno, 90% "filler" 240 pounds of plant food, 1,780 of dead matter at $20 per ton why not get high grade guano •nd be ahead fn the transaction? The chief abuse is in mixing the cmnasercial gsanos, and the exorbitant prices charged for the so called "complete stand ard" guanos on the markets. This state is afflicted with no fewer than 300 of these "agri cultural panaceas.” But there Is nothing new in this except the brand names. The manu facturers do the best they can to relieve the disease, which we farmers term "soil sterility." They make a mixture that works well on one man’s soil, and Uten sell the same brand over the whole neighborhood. In gnano purchasing, the main principles to be observed are: First, supply what is needed; second, supply tn economical way; or negative ly, not to purchase what we do not need, nor to pay an extrava gant price for fancy names of guano. There are two bases upon which we can accomplish re salts; First, from the analysis of the soils of oar farms; second, a scries of gnano experiments. The first is impracticable, for we have no instruments, knowl edge or implements for soil analysis. Tne second is also impracticable when we consider the vast multitude of "concoc tions and decoctions” upon the markets. The only practical solution is to purchase the raw chemical, in sufficient quantities to get wholesale rates and mix to anit oar soils. We cannot aflord to bny the stnfi in car-load lots. There would be freight, storage, leakage and waste in mixing. How many farmers understand what is meant by 8-2-2, 8-3-3, (3-8-3?) When I speak of guanos as 8-2-2, I mean a gnano which contains 8% of phosphoric acid, 2% nitrogen, 2% potash. Or in other words, 100 pounds of phosphoric acid. 40 pounds of nitrogen and 40 pounds of potash to the ton available for plant food. In designing the composition of guano the manufacturers place nitrogen first, phosphoric acid second, and potash third. It is the desire of farmers who raise cotton that the land pro duce as high a yield as possible. Nature made the land fertile'. What have we done? We’ve been robbing the soil. We are the greatest soil robbers on earth. Hard words these. But it is the truth. Can’t you see that continnal cropping robs the •oil of plant food? How much longer need we consider the question? How many more thousands of acres will be abandoned as waste land? How many more fanners will live pinched and narrow lives? Science has done her part, let's do ours? R. D. Martin. The Wake Forest baseball team was beateu for the first time this stasou by the A. and M. College team in Raleigh Monday afternoon. Score was 10 to 2. MUM RUTHERFORD COLLEGE. Nr. ComoII Writes Interestingly •I Us sew Hems—The College Floor lahlag — One Hundred Cases sf Neaslee al eae Has —Qoed News from Gaston's lepras* at stives—A Ward si Friendly Advice. Connelly Springs, N. CM Apr. 6 —Tub Gazkttk conics regu larly every Wednesday and Sat urday and we axe all glad to get it, as through its column* we can keep in touch with our old Iriencjs and neighbors. We are getting along nicely in our new home and have re ceived a hearty welcome by our neighbors who have shown ns much kindness since we have been here. vve nave a one school, and the student* all seem to be doing good work. This i* the most prosperous year in the history of Rutherford College, there being now nearly three hundred names enrolled. About all the available space for both board and lodging has been taken up so that if tuauv more than are here now come in this fall more room will have to be provided. So far as 1 can see. the people of these mountain counties are taking much more •■‘era* »n the education of their children than the people of Gaston, and this should not be so. The Gaston boys and girla that arc here are making good progress and are conducting themselves very creditably. . The wheat crop it looking fine. Peaches were all killed by the freeze on the 4th inst. . The health of the country is very good. There have been a few cases of pneumonia as a result of measles this winter but only one case terminated seriously. We had a regular epidemic of measles here this winter (six caaes at our bouse) but all are well now. There was over one hundred cases in school at one time. The political question is very tjrtiet up here—scarcely ever bear politics mentioned. When the primaries come, however, Capt. R. B. Glenn will get one vote for Governor, and Judge W. A. Hoke one for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Yon have quite a number of candidates for the different offi ces in Gaston this year. They are all good fellows and it Is a pity they all can’t get to the pie counter, but they can’t. The only disturbing element I hear of from down there is the court house. It seems to me that the thing for both sides to do it to get together and agree to ask the Legislature to order a new court house built and then let the people say where it shall be built, then one side can’t say, *• they did the last election, that this election means a new eourt bouse, and the other that the old one is good enough, and* then go before the Board of ROYAL Baking Powder Makes the food more wholesome, and more nutritious to both brain and muscle, I have given the Training Table to the Cornell University for £ve years very satisfactorily, and am certain that much of the success has depended upon the quality of • articles Vised. In baking powder, I use the Royal, for it is undoubt edly the best. I have occasionally given others a trial, and have dem onstrated to my satisfaction that there is but one always reliable, always making perfect, delicious and wholesome food, — The Old Reliable “Royal.” (Mrs.) Amelia Morey Atkins. Commissioners and try to get them to spend $10,000 on it after aaying it was good enough. It is hurtful to the interests of the county to bare either aide of the county make a political dead line oi Long Creek. Before it cornea to that yon bad better divide the* county' and make Long Creek the dividing line. With the best wishes for the interest of the_ county, her peo ple, and my friends in particular. I remain. Very respectfully, _J. it. Cow mu.. •etioaa ia Boy’s Naas. Char lout Observer. The small con of Mr. P. S. Gil christ, of Dilwortfa. baa had something wrong with bis naae for two yean. His parents be coming alarmed about him called in a doctor and bad the nose ex amined. Several doctors were consulted without result. Fi nally howeveT, a specialist put the boy under the influence of an anaesthetic and made a thor ough examination, the result was the extraction of two shoe buttons. The boy is all right now. Mra. Cordelia Botkin has been convicted of murdering Mrs. Jno. P. Dunning by means of poisoned candy tbrongh the mails. She will now be tried on the charge of having mur dered at the same time, Mra. Deane, a sister of Mrs. Donning in the tame manner. Already the case has coat the state of California $80,000. The Yorkville Enquirer says that the cotton acreage will not be greatly increased in York county this year. There are lots of farmers who want to increase but are unable to do so because of acarcity of labor. There is very good reason to predict that the yield per acre will be great er. This is to be expected be cause of heavier fertilizing and more work. WHArs OOIHO Off. J. H. Kennedy & Co., the popular druggists, are thinking of patting e penay-in-thc-slot weighing machine in their •tore, so that those who use Mi-o-oa can tell bow much they gain in weight every week. There is talk of forming a "Get Pat Society" ia Gastonia. It will be a jolly crowd, as fat peo ple are always happy. Tbia will undoubtedly increase the sale of Mi-o-na, the flesh form ing food, for which I. H. Ken nedy & Co., are the local agents. . It is rather unusual for a phy sician to treat bis patients on the no-cure, no-pay plan. How ra.s&Mvs.aKsifi ■U^stomsch troubles sad increase Real live spring chickens for souvenirs, was an innovation at »n Banter party in Middletown, Jia m• Editor Curtis of the M News moves his paper this week from Madison to Kernernvilie where it will hereafter be pub lished. A freight wreck occurred on tbe Southern Monday afternoon near Fletcher’s « burg branch. number 54 and the wreck was due to a broken flange. Twelve cars were ditched but no ooe seems to have been hurt. MARY JOHNSTON’S GREAT NEW NOVEL Sir Mortimer I IS JUST PUBLISHED Readers of "TO HAVK AND TO HOLD" will welcome the distinct advance which Miss John ston, already a master-band ip fiction, has made over her previous successes. No more delightful romance of Rlisabethan days has been written. Love in English bowers and adventure on high seas go band in band through a tale of varied and bewildering charm. With frontispiece reproducing colon of origteoi pointing by F. C Yofan, and tight HaamtMb i * ■ » paper and mounted (the ■ HARPER A BROTHERS. New York This .YOU /ft Book b one you ought to own. It will grow more iutereatiug every time you turn ire pages. Aa yon ant ra br, it b a book oI deposit in the Gastonia SAvnroa Bank. An account with it b a sign of thrift. It b also a sign of a good business man. For every dollar deposited gets to work for yoo at once. Getting others to work (or you b the way to wealth. The sooner you begin, the quicker you reach the goal. GASTONIA SAVINGS BANK, l. L. nHKmS. Prm L. c. HAKDM, DELIGHTFUL SURPRISES. There are foot points** wish to e«pfcaria*t»4*. Weasen riooed then Tuesday. hat we or* oo strong at thoae that we feel it a duty we owe onr customers to insist udou tbrmobw min They ere these: ‘ Laces and Embroideries* For lovers of laces see hove many delightful aaneins. Brood variety; extra site patterns. ' * New Dress Trimmings. Sane way in trite .ring.- sarpriaesta beauty, aerprioe* in valno. Underwear. Ia great variety. Valae, durability. -Time**. fi'-nlniM. ser vice. Millinery. Everything beautiful, sraonnabla. and styliab, at price* that only odd to rite fascination of theee goods. ^ JAS. F. YEAGER. STATIONERY SUPPLIES. k i. v *,.'/• atTV1«.-<> y\a7>,sp-/*i*y^ ^ feSN^Mi > ■' miifiH if tHartwn «t Ifca latest fsots eat. TUs eakncet toWHMwyfUrwttw. ▼elopes ta match, tablets sf all priow. SnB*f^ peas, pencils, MeUble lab. aa4 writiaf fJokU. s s s s s * ADAMS DRUG C?. PHONE 26. Isaseaabsr we serve emly tbe best at aor Isaatata. TO BE HAPPY ■ man must know that Ida family will not coma to want in case of bit death. You cannot fed that their future is aecnra offered. BtO DIVT DBMDSt liSee ns before jPvtoff •• application, and let an explain it to yon. fatal L»m < Trett Ca Our Immense New Showing of Spring Shoes For men, boy*.little rents, Indies, nlMM end children, represent* !"* ,.hI* the most fssh* lonaMe styles end dssfened by t be most noted Shoe makers who feruisb this store with shot*, Is now reedy for your Inspection. The new Sprint exhibition of •hone is the lamest, the head* ■t Spriox-time. If yonr new Sprint Shoe comes from Robin eon's It's bound to be correct sad the moot stylish of the sen see. Robinson Bros. BICYCLES 1 BICYCLESI ,1 8PAN1II|,| BLUB w ▲ ■ SEASON AT STABLES OP A miles RHYNE NORTH OP THE OLD mttjt JOHN N. ‘HANNA, OWIMU, H.C.
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