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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- The BIG FURNITURE STORE Wants Your Trade for the Year 1907 We sell everything in furniture and house furnishing lines. Goods always new and reli able. Prices as low as any dealer can name for first class goods. OEPOT 8T. E. O. REESE, NEWNAN, 6A. 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 NEWNAN MARBLE WORKS J. E. ZACHARY, Proprietor. Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinds of marble and granite. GEORGIA MARBLE A SPECIALTY All work guaranteed to be first class in every particular. Parties needing anything in our line are requested to call, examine work and got prices. IRON FENCE OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE AND WORKS NEAR THE RAILROAD JUNCTION NEWNAN, CEORCIA OFFICE 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. Wood's Seeds Seed 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 ginia Gray Winter, etc. Write for prices. VBBO’S IEV SEEB IBBK far 1117 tells all about Seed Oats and all 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.