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GROWING CORN IN
SOUTH CAROLINA
depends upon the Ufo-lonr study
end oi:>crlonoe of the men who di
rect this business, and who mix a
fertilizer which "makes threejoftcn
a dozen) blndcaof trrnssgrow, where
only one grow before." The name
of It la
Virginia-Carolina Fertilizer.
By Its vory liberal use, a week or
two before, or at planting, as well
nssecond application, multitudes of
farmers in tho South have " in
creased thoir yields per acre," and
with the larger profits which these
increased yields brought, paid off
tho mortgageon their farms. Don't
bo fooled by any denlor Into buying
a "cheap” substitute.
Vlrglnla-Carollaa Chemical C».
Richmond, Va. Atlanta.Oa.
Norfolk. Va. Savannah, Oa.
Durham, N. C. Montgomery, Ala.
Charleston. S.C. Memphis, Tenn.
Baltimore, Md. Shreveport, La.
Dr. Williamson, of that State,
Produces Enormous Yields
of Corn by New System of
Planting and Cultivation.
A. & M. College Located.
Columbia, S. 0., January 13.—
What is creating most interest in
southern agricultural circles at
present is the Williamson plan of
cultivating corn—a discovery that
has revolutionized corn cultivation
already, and appears to presage
benefits incalculable for the fu
ture.
After more than ten years’ of
experiment Mr. E. Mclver Wil
liamson, of Darlington, this state,
hit on the present plan, and has
given it to the public. Experiments
from South Carolina to Texas are
remarkably conclusive, and ex
perience practically unanimous.
The average yield of corn per
acre in South Carolina has been
less than ten bushels, although
Captain Z. J. Drake, in Mareboro
county, had raised the largest
amount of corn on one acre that
had ever been grown in the world,
The executive committee of the
Fourth Congressional District 2 54 bushels and 49 pounds.
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, consisting of J. A. Murrah,
Chairman; T. M. Zellars, of Grant-
ville; Dr. J. B. Sanders of Corinth;
T. L. Thomason, Chipley; and J.
R. Leavell, Woodbury, met in this
city Thursday, and after inspect
ing some four or five places,select
ed the farm of B. A. Sharp, a mile
west of Carrollton as the site for
the school.
The other sites inspected were
the farms of J. T, Bradley and R.
B. Gaston east of town; that part
ol the Kingsberry tarm lying west
of the Temple road together with
parts of the farms of Ed Merrell
and J. K. Griffin, north of town;
the lands of L. C. and L. P. Man-
devil le and S. B. Gaston, a mile
and a quarter west of town.
All of these places were desir
able and it took th
some time to decide between them.
|Now that the selection has been 1
made,let us,without one discordant j
note, goto work and make the]
ear is hurt. Two good rains after
laying by should make you a good
crop of corn, and it will certainly
make with much less rain than if
pushed and fertilized in the old
way.
The stalks will be very small
and will not require anything like
the amount of moisture. Do not
be discouraged by the small ap
pearance of the stalks; the corn
will make out of all proportions to
its size.
Mr. Williamson considers the
final application of nitrate of soda
an essential point in making a fine
ear, and it should be applied un
mixed with any other fertilizer.
He says he is satisfied with one
ear to the stalk, unless a prolific
variety is planted, and leaves a
hundred stalks tor every bushel he
expects to make. He says further:
“I find the 6-foot row easiest to
cultivate without injuring thecorn.
For fifty bushels to the acre I
leave it 16 inches apart; for 75
bushels 12 inches apart, and for
100 bushels 8 inches apart. Corn
should be planted from 4 to 6
inches below the level,- and laid by
from 4 to 6 inches above. No hoe
ing should be necessary and mid
dies may be kept clean until time
to break out, by using harrow, or
of Darlington by running one shovel furrow in
center of middle and bedding on
that with one or more
On the sand hills
county, one of the Pee Dee coun
ties of the state, Mr. Williamson
raised in thejyear 1904 an average j turn plow.”
of 84 busheis to the acre, some of
his best acres making 125 bushels, tops; nor does ho cut peavines or leges proper to each alone, the He
Thousands of farmers in the 1 pick peas. All these go back into
He does not pull fodder nor cut
with the other nations.
This is a dangerous doctrine and
if followed will result ultimately in
the overthrow of the republic
whose integrity stands upon state
rights. It may lie that the agree
ment that binds the states together
is multilateral and that no one has
the right to withdraw from the
Union unless by the consent of the
others. But this does not affect
the fact that the strength of the
nation depends upon such agree
ment, and that once it had failed
of recognition and all powers of
government had been concentrated
in the federal control, a republic
would have failed and we would
become a kingdom with successive
ly elected rulers. This would soon
become irksome to the men in pow
er, and before long even the elec
tive right would be taken away
and an out-and-out monarchy
would result. The United States
must be a union of states, if it is to
continue to be a republic, and un
less states have the right to make
such legislation as shall seem to
them good and proper and not to
conflict with the rights of others,
whether alien nations arc con
cerned or not. they will cease to
form a union, ami will be nothing
nor less than an aggregation of lo
calities whose only differences and
distinctiveness will be merely geo- [
rounds of grapical or topographical.
Unless the states stand with
clearly defined rights, and privi-
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state have tried the plan, notably j the soil and are worth, according
to $20 an acre as
the superintendent of the state
tarm, who made an average of 40
measured bushels to the acre on
land that had never yielded more
than 15 bushels as a high yield,
with an avera b e of less than 10
bushels.
In the red hills of the western
part of the state, as high as 75
bushels to the acre were made, and
averages of over 50 were common.
Mr. Williamson’s plan, boiled
down, is as follows:
Land is broken up in six-foot
committee! rows, leaving a four-inch balk. The
soil is broken one-fourth deeper
than is common, and a water fur
row made, in which the corn is
planted, care being taken to plant
to him, $15
fertilizer.
Any practical man may follow
the plan, which requires less work
than the old way, and so far re
public will fail. This is not men
ly a personal opinion uttered
through the fear of an alarmist,
but is forced by recent utterances
and the trend ol events. There is
danger in the declarations of Mr.
Hoot in that already widely-talked
school a great
ton Times.
success.—Carroll-
Juniors Installed Officers.
At a meeting of Newnan Coun
cil, No. 22, Jr.O. U. A. M., held
Friday night of last week the fol
lowing officers were installed:
John \V. Kersey, Jr., past coun
cillor; J. C. Leach, councilor; J. 8.
( ole, vice councilor; J. A. Wads
worth, recording secretary; G. L.
Johnson, assistant recording sec
retary; B. H. Strozier, financial
secretary; C. A. Merck, J. \V.
Kersey and J. 8. Cole, trustees; C.
P. Stephens, treasurer; J. It. Hyde,
conductor; W. M. Haynie, war
den; 8. E. King, inside sentinel;
J. B. Aston, outside sentinel; Rev.
W. 8. Gaines, chaplain.
Newnan Council now has a mem
bership of 160 and is in every re
spect one of Newnau’s foremost
fraternal organizations.
results indicate that South Caro-! ul speech wherein he shows the
lina can raise the crop of Iowa on administration in regard to state
three-fourths the area, the product fights. Mr. Roosevelt, too, has
being worth more than twice as! said things that cause tear to In
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much here on account of the high
er value of corn.
As the state of South Carolina
has something like twelve million
acres of land available for this pur
pose, not now utilized, it will be
seen what a revolution this would
make, if the pktns fulfill expecta
tions.
i
as early as possible. No fertilizer
is applied, and the first working is
done with a sweep on both sides
of the corn and give first working
with harrow. Thin when corn is
about eight inches high. In plant
ing drop the grains about five or
six inches apart. (Mr. Williamson
breaks out balk with scooter and
follows in the furrow with Dixie
plow, with wing taken off.)
Then, this first working with
harrow and thinning, a stunting
process should be begun, on which
the success of the plan depends.
Corn should usually be from eight
to twelve inches high when the
stunting process is done, and “look
worse than you have ever seen
corn look before,” says Mr. Wil
liamson The fertilizer used is a
mixture of 300 pounds acid phos
phate, 200 pounds kainit, and 100
pounds nitrate of soda.
! At this point, “when your corn
! has been sufficiently humiliated,”
j put on half the fertilizer in the old
The easiest thing in the world j sweep furrow, on either side of the
The Question of
tion.
Centraliza-
is to make mistakes; the hardest
is to acknowledge them; the next
hardest is to profit by them.
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Oats
Choice,
Heavy,
Recleaned
Stocks.
We have thousands of bushels
in stock, selected from the best
crops grown in this country; all
the best and most productive
kinds:
8 Burt, or 90-Day,
Black Tartarian,
Swedish Select,
Red Rust Proof,
White and Black Spring, Vir
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8
1 middle and cover by breaking out
this middle with a turn ploy,
j About one week after treat the
1 other middle the same way. With
in a few days side corn in the mid
dle with 16 inch sweep. Put all of
your nitrate of soda in this turrow,
if less than 150 pounds; if more,
use one-half of it now. Cover with
one furrow of turn plow, then sow
peas broadcast in the furrow at the
rate of at least a bushel to the
acre and finish breaking out.
In a few days side corn and oth
er middle with
balance of nitrate of soda in this
furrow. If it has been divided
cover with turn plow, sow peas
and break out. This lays by corn
with good bed and plenty of dirt
around the stalk. This should be
from June 10 to June 20 (in this
latitude) unless season is very
late, and corn should hardly be
bunching for tassel.
Lay by early. More corn : s
ruined by late plowing than by
'a:k of plowing. This is when the
There are evidences that the
United States are drifting to the
point when they will be no longer
required to take the plural verb.
The government in Washington,
feeling the restrictions upon its
policies by state limitations is
struggling to break the bonds
which fetter it. As the country
attains greater importance abroad
it comes more and more necessar-
ry for Washington to deal with
other nations without having to
consult the wishes of others. In
certain contingencies the state de
partment feels called upon to speak
ex cathedra, as it were, but finds
itself hampered by sectional or
state restrictions that it must con
sult. For instance, take the fric
tion in California with the Japan
ese. It incited Washington to be 1
able to announce to Japan that it
(the United 8tates collectively)
was ready to see that the cause of
dissatisfaction would be removed,
and to be aide to have carried out
each promise was a great desidera
tum. Unfortunately for the plans
of Messrs. Roosevelt, Hoot and
others, California had to l>e con
sulted, and having been requested
to retreat assumed a belligerent at
titude, refused to back down and
forced the government to turn to
the slow processes of the law for
redress, with the chance that ulti
mately it would have to face the
lievers in this portion of the con
stitution. Editor George Harvey,
in the last number of the North
American Review, voices the sen
timents of many when he says that
the situation is grave. A portion
of his editorial that follows is very
much to the point. He says:
“Daily now we behold open and
avowed subversions of the funda
mental constitutional principles by
neither ineffective “political dream
ers,” nor even political organiza
tion, but by an active, able and
resolute clique, which, under most
aggressive leadership, holds abso
lute control of one arm of the
government, successfully coerces
another and insidiously endeavors
to influence the court of last resort,
That, in holding centralization of
power to lie mere substitution of
one regulative authority for anoth
or, and not dispoilment of the
rights of the people to govern
themselves, those responsible for
the “tendency” are conscious
of wrong-doing we neither assert
nor believe; circumstances and the
glamour of place have really con
vinced them that all regard for
public virtue and all sense of busi
ness morality are confined to the
government group, and their con
viction that good can come from
no other authority constituted
among and closer to the people is
sincere. Therein lies the same
greater measure of danger that re
cently confronted the country when
false principles were personified in
a candidate for the presidency, of
whose personal genuineness there
was.no question.
“The gravity of the situation
plainly evidenced by the presi
dent's recent declarations upon all
conceivable topics, from before the;
J. R. Hodge’s
Coweta Shops
Back of Hardaway & Hunter store house.
We do all work in good style.
Horse shoeing a specialty. Prices
right, either for spot cash or on
time. It will be to your interest
to see me before you commence
your shop business for 1907. I
have two of the best all-around
smiths in middle Georgia.
J. R. HODGE,
Proprietor and Manager Coweta Shops.
eign consumption, we may be at
the beginning of a constitutional
struggle unequalled in danger to
the Union since the Civil War.”
“It is our firm conviction that
we are at the beginning of such a
struggle now, and that, as solemn
ly adjured by Daniel Webster, we
must “not” wait till groat public
mischiefs come, till the govern
ment is overthrown, or liberty it
self put into extreme jeopardy, if
in the words of Thomas Jefferson,
we would retain “our peculiar se
curity in the possession of a writ
ten constitution, not made a blank
paper by construction.”
“The present great prosperity,
though pleasing, is a menace since
it makes the people at large indif
ferent to matters that concern
them not immediately, as regards
the government. Of course, the
results of an inroad into the rights
of the stales would not be felt at
once; it might even be a score of
years before anything transpired
that would force some particular
Oliver Will Dig
With Southern
Big Ditch
Negroes.
Washington, Jan. 14.—In the
event the Oliver-Bangs combina
tion is given the contract for dig
ging the Panama canal, which is
likely, southern negroes will be
used extensively for labor. Oliver
will take five thousand negroes to
Panama the minute he is notified
that the contract has been awarded
his firm, and this number will be
increased from time to time as con
ditions warrant.
Conditions in Panama in some
respects are similar to condition in
some of the southern states, where
Oliver has done rauce work. He
is familiar with the l>est methods
for handling the negro and feels
that he can use them to advantage
in digging the big ditch. In addi
tion to the negroes, Oliver will
take a force of white steam shovel
men, superintendents, foremen,,
sub-bosses, etc. These, too, will
come from the south where they
cradle in respect to race suicide to b<l what it had s< j have worked with negro labor, and
after the grave in relation to in
heritance taxation, and by con
slant im
| that the danger is being unheeded
by many. Nevertheless, we are
dilemma of either siding with Cal
same sweep, put j ifornia against a foreign power or tension ot
of upholding that power against j less than by the outspoken menace
one of its own integral parts.
As the Republican party has al- j ing public utterance
ways been prone to centralization,
anyway, it naturally occurred to
the President that if California
and the other states had no speci
fic rights and could do nothing
that the Washington government
did not deem for the general wel
fare, such entanglements would
not arise and the state department
would be able to act as it saw fit
patient demands for ex-!< jt ' those who are sure that eventu-
f executive authority, no | 8 reat harm would ensue. I he
in his chief official adviser’s amaz
reached the
comprehension of foreign obser
vers with extraordinary rapidity,
as contrasted with the gradual
dawning of understanding respect
ing it on the part of our own peo
ple. The “Saturday Review”
sums up a full statement with
terse accuracy in these words:
“ ‘If Mr. Roosevelt intends his
threats for anything beyond for-
form of government will die the
day it is decided that all power is
vested in Washington and the
greatest experiment in Republican
ism the world has ever seen will
have failed, the work of our lath-
el's gone for naught, and we our
selves would be drifting backward
upon the seas of time.”—Augusta
Chronicle.
it is declared they will experience
no trouble in pushing the black
men at making the dirt fly.
In connection with the Oliver-
Bangs combination, it develops
that Oliver controls two-thirds of
the syndicate. Bangs is the only
other man interested, and this fact
in part explains the lowness of
their bid. Only two men will
share profits.—Atlanta Journal.
An aggressive man soon acquires
a reputation as a, knocker.
We do not like to see babies too
awfully clean and dressed up. It
leads us to bilieve that they are
not having a good time.