DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. IX. NO. 40
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1916.
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tbes and Abuses of fertilizers.
The News has been so fortunate ^
as to secure a series of articles or. :
the Uses and Abuses of Fertilizers,
prepared by Prof. H. J. R. D'
Loach, director of the experiment
station of Georgia, who is the rec
organized authority on fertilizers n
the South. The frst of these ar
ticles wd! appear in the News thh
we k and one will appear each
week until the series is exhausted.
Prof p*5 Lo ch is a nat>ve of the
South. b-mg bur and raised in the:
-r. f G'-orgn. He has made'
t . • ti • ,, 1 f -.o g
stu ay. and especially the benefits1
t ’ f f ti z-''r<= Prof Do
Loach graduated from the Univer
sity of Georgia aid then spent j
three years as the botanist at the
Univr r>it> of Georgia experiment
and five years as professor of cot
ton i custry at th ■ ' college of
ag;-culture df G cig-a Pi, w
fvr.on : summer in tt;c
bin -lU of plant i; ,1 .'.JirU
t'-v i-rnv > . ’ Cornell U•..v -rsi'y
-■ n't :or a time a studem. at the 1
scientific laboratories of the United
States department of agriculture
in Washington, D. C. Prof. De
Loach is a member of five Ameri
can scientific scci Ties and three of
Europe.
Prof. De Loach fns written
much m the way of bulletins on
Southern agriculture, especially of
c tton. He has recently written
a book on The Amer'mn CTtor.
Industry, which was published by a!
prominent New York publishing
house. He is also editor of the
Farm and Farmers department or
tbs Atlanta Tri-Weekly Constitu
tion and is the author of an Agri
culture for Common Schools, which 1
is a text book in Georgia schools
His years of research in the;
S uth especially qualifies him to
write this series of article, and it is
certain that those reading his ar
ticles will be benefited thereby.
J. C. Wallace for Justice of the Peace.
The News this week carries the
announcement of J. C. Wallace of
Strong as a candidate for Justice;
of the Peace of Lapile •townshin.
subject to the action of th«=> Demo
cratic primary on March 29.
Mr. Wallace has served as jus
tice of the peace eleven years at
various times and was not a candi
date for reelection at the last pri
mary, having just finished a four
year term at that time, and would
not be a candidate at this time but
for the fact that W. P. Richardson,
the present encumbent from the
west end of the township, is not a
candidate for a second .erm. Mr
Wallace's past experience in this,
office makes him' qualified in every1
particular as his past record has1
been above reproach.
For the convenience of the pub
lic it is customary to elect one jus
tice from each end of the townshin
and we bespeak for Squire Wal' roe
your vote as the candidate from
the west end, knowing the office j
will be in capable hands if he is
elected.
The Call of God to Attention
Will be the subject of the pastor
of 3aptist church Sunday morning.
Evening subject: The Resurrec
tion. You are cordially invited to
attend. Sunday school at 9:45
a. m. _
Senjtor Garrett and Mr. Hodges.
Mad because the efforts to find
something crooked in the books of
Earle Hodges, secretary of state.
Senator Barrett made a speech at
Arkadelphia dur.ng the past week,
following the address of Hodges, jn
which he charged all sorts of things
against Mr. Hodges. As a servant
of the people, and their trusted
representative in the legislature, if
Mr. Garrett has evidence to show
that Hodges had violated the law,
he should have gone before the
grand jury and had him indicted,
i and not wait ;d until there was a
j campaign for governor on, to briny
; the charge. In fact Mr. Garret:
is angry because the audit of the
uooks of the secretary of state pro
ceeded under the supervision of
Go], George Thornburg, and in
stead of making a goat of Mr
Hodges he himself was made th.
goat. Mr'Garrett was one of the
legislative committee having in
charge the auditing of the books ir
the various state offices, and he
makes verv clear to the people,
when he gets mad now, that the
auditing of the books had just th-,
political significance that Earle
Hodges charged it had. and that n
wa started in order to play a part
in the present campaign. Havin*
'-iied to ploy the part Senator Gar
! hoped it would play, he now
a mad, and shows too plaink
that it was not for the sake of cor
recting errors in the books or as
sisting in the enforcement of th*
law. but was clearly -a political
scheme, just as Mr. Hodges h, d
said it w-is. Mr. Garr tt shock
hold his temopr. and not give wa\
to disappointment to such an ex
tent as to b-tray the real motive
he had in seeking the investigation
of the books in the secretary ol
state's office.
To get the news read The New*
J. L. Bond Candidate [Or
State Superintendent.
One of ths principle planks in i
the platform of J. L. Bond, candi
date for State Superintendent, is a
strong and efficient system of rural
| schools. Mr. Bond, of course, fa
I ors good scools in cities and towns.
!
but he proposes to give special at
tention to the improvement of
i rural schools of the state.
He has been'engaged in school
! work in Arkansas for more than
, twenty years and has served in a
'number of school positions as
county examiner, secretary and
president of the state teachers' as
; sociation, and for threp years and
a half was deputy state superin
tendent. During the past four
years he has been Supervisor of j
Rural Schools, and as such has |
met thousands of teachers and pa-!
trons of the public schools.
Mr. Bond was educated in the j
public schor ls of Arkansas, and.
graduated from Hendrix college. 1
Among the many things he advo
cates for the public schools are:
Longer school terms, better school
buildings, strong rural high schools,
better school attendance, better
prepared teachers, school work
made more practical, close co op
eration of the ducat oral and agi i
j cultural forces of the state to the
end that there may be unity and
system in all educational work of
the state.
Mr. Bond obligates himself to1
' give "Bond for service" if elected
the next State Superintendent.
Public Spcdk i’g Dotes.
J. S. McK i:ghf and J. K. Maho
ny, candidates for Prosecuting At
.orney. have agreed to address the
voters of Union county at the
t:mes and places below mentioned
Everybody is respectfully invited
to attend:
Caiion. 7 p. m.. Monday. Fev.2'.
Union Church. 10 a. on., Tuet
• V. Feb. 22.
Lawson. 7 p. m., Tuesday, Feb.
22. |
Hillsboro. 10 a. m., Wednesday.
Feb. 23.
New London, 7 p. m., Wednes
Jay, Feb. 23.
Lapjfe. 10a m., Thursday, Fe!.
24.
Huttig. 7 p. m., Thursdiy, Feb,
24.
Strong. 10 a. m.. Friday, Feh.25, ‘
Caledonia. 7 p. m . Friday. Feb.
25.
Upland, 10 a. m., Saturday, Feb.
26.
Scot'and. 3 p. m.. Saturday, Feb.
26.
Junction City, 7 p. rn.. Saturday. '
-eb. 26.
Three Creeks, 3 p. m., Monday,
Feb. 28.
Wesson, 7 p. m., Monday. Feb.
28.
New Hope, 10 a. m.. Tuesday,
Feb. 29.
Shuler. 3 p. m.. Tuesday. Feb. j
29.
Wesson Camp. 7 p. m.. Tuesday
- eb 29.
Bethel Church. 10 a. m., Wed
i nesday. March 1.
Mt. Holly/3 p. m.. Wednesday.
March. 1.
Lisbon,. 7 p. m., Wednesday,
March’ 1.
Smackover, 10 a. m. Thursday.
March 2.
Ncrphlet, 3 p m.. Thursday.
March 2.
El Dorado, 7 p. m., Monday,
March 20.
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for Sale.
S:xtecn acre Truck farm, in high
state of cultivation. One five
room house, two tenant houses,
two good wells, pasture with water
tank and barn. One-half mile west
of Huttig. For prices see
W. L. Reagan,
at Huttig Meat Market.
January Weather.
The highest temDerature record
d here durng the month of Janu
ary was 81 degrees on the 1 Rh.
and the lowest was on the 13th
when it went to 14 above. The
rainfall for the month was 9.14
inches. 'There were only fou
clear days during the month.
The Uses and Abuses
of Fertil zers
A Seriew of Six Article* Which
Should He of Valuable VsnIkIhimt
to AKrlciilturlnt« nvid Mori i«*«i i tu r
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1'xi»erinicnt Sintlon.
1. THE USE OF COMMERCIAL FER
TILIZERS—HISTORY.
We would not be disposed to try to
Five a complete history of the use of
commercial fertilizers, but only to
show how this (treat industry began
and grew in the Southern United
States. Generally speaking, the far
mors of this generation inherited the
habit of applying fertilizers to soils,
but have not been taught the underly
ing principles of ihe industry.
The use of route kind of manures on
soil? with crops for the purpose of in
creasing the yields goes back to an
cient times. We know that many an
cient people applied ani il manures
to their soils for this pu'p ?i*. The
Chinese centuries ago, appii d ma
nures of various kinds to their suits
and gardens and with phenomenal re
sults. In Von Tshudi’s Travels in Pe
tit we find that as early as the middle j
of the last century notes we e being
taken on the actual value of Guano by
’lie Peruvians.
Bousingault speaks of seeing fields
in Peru on which wheat had liven
grown every year for tv,o centuries,
and the yield still high and the grow
era prosperous.
The practice of using mineral ferti
lizers was introduced direct from Pe
ru t the T’nited States in the year
184(1, and was based on such reports
as we find above, it had already been
used in England before it found its
way into the United Slates, but Pern
seems to be the country in which the,
application of minerals to so Is as
plant food originated We do nnt
know (his is true, hut all evidence
points to this. I( of greater interest
to us therefore that we know about
the customs in Peru.
The iirst man in the Southern States
to ttse this Peiuvian guano was Oavi l
Dickson, of Sparta, (in., who saw an
advertisement of it in the old Ameri
can Farmer published in Baltimore.
The South lias perhaps never lmd a
more successful farmer tin n David j
D:\on, who made many millions of j
dollars fanning, and who was a pio
neer in many oilier 'inos as veil as i:i
the ime of mineral fertilizers. In the
year 1S4B, the vear after it was intro
duced into the United States, he bought
three sacks and used it, and on find
ing that it paid him, bought it in in
creasing quantities till the year 1855
and 1856, when he “went into it fully.'
As is suggested above this is no doubt
the first instance of the use of a con
centrated mineral fertilizer on cotton
in the United States.
I The universal success with which
Mr. Dickson met in the use of this Pe
: ruviun Kiiauo led many other pro ni
\ nent farmers to follow his example,
anil in every rs>t>orted cum success
followed its use. We are constrained
i to bel'eve that the way that the appli
cation of this mineral fertilizer to the
cotton arm other crops in the South
could not po -ibly have been an acci
dent. Its success was unquestionably
based on 11 <• actual needs of the soil
A quickly available manure was wnat
the crop needed, and when tiiis was
once applied results were evident.
After a time it was found that the;
Peruvian guano. which contained prin- !
cipally nitrogen, produced too muen j
stalk and not much increase in th j
yield of fruit, and lienee ns use was
somewhat discouraged for a season.
About this time the war between
the Slates began, and at the same
time the discovery of the potash bens
of Germany, alo, .the offering on the
market of various kinds- of mineral
fertilizers resulting from the teach
ings of von Liebig of Germany, who
was at that time the greatest cham
pion in tit'' world of agriculture ant!
its possibilities \s a result the pop
utarity of Peruvian guano subsided j
and more study was given to the gen
eral question of tiie use of mineral
manures, he It by farmers themselves
and the students of agriculture.
Two great contrhnting factors tel
the rise of the fertilizer trade in the;
South are tirst th‘ abolition of shiv
ery, and second, the rise of agrieul- •
tural education. Hefore the war the j
question of tatid was secondary, if
growing farm crons in the Sou*k "wore j
the land out," there were plenty ot
slaves to ' take in n ore land." It was j
cheaper to take in land than to pay |
tor any ariilicial manure In 1 ,st>^. i
the Morrill Hill passed t'ongress. |
creating agricultural colleges in the j
various states, after which there be
gan a campaign for improving meth
ods in agriculture, Experiments at !
public expense were liegifn on a small
scale, and the public was Induced to
make greater use of plant foods of at!
kinds, as well as to improve methods j
of tillage. This, of course, caused an |
immediate increase in the use of min ■
; oral plant foods, and out of which
grew demands for great quantities of
fertilizers. From this great demand
there sprang up fertilizer factories in
all parts of the country. All kinds or
materials were tried out, some was
good, and some was not, but much of
'both kinds used. The factories hah;
no restrictions and many of them
palmed off on the farmers anythin,
that would smell strong and tiinr 1
could be put in sacks. This condi
tio.w on account of slate laws did not
last very long. We begin the next
article by giving a resume of Ihe part 1
taken in the, rise of the trade by the
states themselves.
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| bargain call at the News office. I
; We have a new No. 25 White ma~ j
chine diiect from the factory that!
we will sell you for one half what
an r.gent charges.
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every pay day. You know it is the RIGHT
thing to do. Let us handle your money do
your bookkeeping and relieve you of the work.
It is a good plan to know what you spend from
month to month. A checking acccu it at our
bank will tell you to a cent what you spend
each month. We keep a record for you. No
man ever tried transacting ALL his business
througn a bank and regretted it. Call today.
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HUTTIG. ARKANSAS
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Another New Train For
The Southwest
On December 5tb a new. all steel, fast, dally,
through train, to be known as
The Sunshine Special
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was be placed in service between
St. Louis
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
Galveston
San Antonio
or intermediate paints oy the
Iron Mountain Route
Texas and Pacific
International & Great Northern
This train will be a duplicate of the famous Scenic
Limited and wi'l leave St. Louis at 6:15 p. m.
Fastest Time—Shortest Route
Between St. Louis and Texas
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AGENT,
HUTTIG, ARKANSAS
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