Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-11-01

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the Constitution principles indicates
the progress of the country and reflects back upon
the social features of the nation the characteristics
| of the government How important then is this in
dvidua opinion Theideas of the people are strong
| er than armies. If bayonets think, ideas glisten
So far as the South is concerned the school books
| issued by Northern concerns must be closely
| watched The republications of Leonard, Scott &
| Co., are extremely dangerous, and Harper is more
| to be feared than Putnam. But the great effort
must be counter-effort an effort to found great
journal, 'the embodiment of the learning and power
| of the Southern mind" That journal must be me-
tropolitan and here in Washington is the place for
| it. What have the Southern people to expect from
| their men of learning and power when their VIII
tings cannot bring enough to pay for the paper on
which the article is placed while the Northern press
| pays largely and literally for contributions? They
possess capital; they pay for the mind which gows
on every page-and yet there is not one page on the
political history this countryfrom the Declaration
| of Independence down-whicl did not come from
| Southern pen. The South has the mind, she has
the WILL but unfortunately her influence is cut up in
! to fragments by political parties
The future of agitation before her-the course of
Putnam and Harper, all tend to foster in Minds
the Importance of an united effort Such effort
will be made this winter. There will be concen-
tration of influences to establish Monthly to take
the field Southern Monthly, against Putnam.
1t is to be hoped that the effort will succeed. But
what is there in the past history of the South to
justify such hopes? Nothing. She is like care
less boy, who exposes himself on the highway and
is over and for the first time realizes his humi
ating position, as he rebounds, covered with dust
and foaming with rage and modification. In ten
minutes he will be walking along with his hands in
his pockets, his hat crushed in, his coat spoiled,
whistng, regardless of the succeeding train almost
on his heels again. The Indignation of the South is
like of the sayings of the French" mustard af-
ter dinner" If however, the present crusade against
their rights property peace and security, does not
ooad them to action they will deserve that last
and lowest state of degraded people-mentat sub
lection. LOUISIANA.
RoxBoRo', Person Co., Oct. 90 1864
To His Ercellency, DAVID S. REID:
1t may appear paradoxical to maintain that plan
ter may diminish his crops by the use of fertilizers
still shall attempt to show that such result is
possible. theoretically and practically the doctrine
is both interesting and important 1t is founded
upon principles which have had occasion to state
while speaking of manurcs and fertilizers The doc
rine alluded to is based two facts viz that each
plant requires certain inorganic elements for its
growth and perfection of seed, and that the most in
portant of these elements exist in the soil only in
smaller proportions. Now plant, in certain res
poets, is like animal. If young old ami
NAL is supplied with large quantity of food its
growth is promoted, its fat accumulates This is
the if the food contains all the elements of
triton. 1t is not the case, however, if
of them wanting. In the of young ami
NAL for example, the milk which is the natural food
contains in its normal condition every element which
the system requires but if the milk should be de-
ficient in phosphate of lime phosphoric of acid
the animal could not grow, or If it did grow by
means of small amount of phosphoric acid
phosphate Of lime, the bones would be soft and fiex
ible But this is not the point attempting to
prove or elucdate and the allusion is made merely
for the purpose Of stating the fact, that in the food
of both animals and plants there is speciality which
should be remembered by all planters and stock
growers. But plants unlike animals in certain
respects; their mouths for instance, placed in
magazine Of food, but this magazine may contain
rich supply Of certain elements of nutrition and
very scany supply of others but enough of all for
the present to ensure the growth of the plant and
perfection of the seed. If the planter resorts
to the of the mineral fertilizers, plaster the
result will be for the first two three years greater
growth of heritage we'll greater increase of
fruit seed. If this magazine of food (hc soiD
contains small quantity only of phosphate of lime,
the employment of plaster or sulphate of lime puts
the plant in condition to and take up a larger
amount Of phosphate of lime than it could provid-
cd this mineral had not been employed. If this
magazine contained phosphate of lime which would
have lasted ten years with no fertilizer it will not
last more than five with it. BY the of this fer
tiiZer the root is increased in extent and to speak
figuratvely, the number of mouths formed to take
up TODD is proportioaaly increased also, and hence
the store house IS more rapidly exhausted. We
have now arrived at the point where can see the
consequences which accrue from the of mineral
fertilizers the elements of food which exist in small
quantities only become exhausted in a short period
under this system of cultivation, and every plant
must have every one of the clements of nutrition
for the perfection of Seed the time when
seed cannot be perfected for the want of clement
The general effects of such system of culture is
at once, and yet the planter may persevere in
it for he in the beginning most gratifying re-
s1ts; his crops may have been doubled, and in Or
der to keep up and perhaps attempt to increase the
production still more, supplies his favorite fertilizer
in greater quantities, though he may have after
the second and third year, that its employment did
not turn out so favorably at first. This result
may be attributed to the season, it too wet or
too dry, too hot or too cold, to any but the
right one The neighbor3 say he has killed his soil !
by the of plaster but the true philosophy is, he
has exhausted prematurely and unnecessarily of
the essential elements of fertility 1t is evident
enough he can no longer paser-hc must find |
out what has become deficient in the soil. There is |
such thing killing a soil running it, it is |
simple exhaustion of one two elements What |
those lacking elements must now be found out |
and the remedy becomes simple application |
toration of what has boon inudiciousy removed |
What is true of Gypsum is equally true of Peruvian
Guano The proportion of inorganic matter in this !
variety is much smaller relatively than in the Next
can. 1t is highly active upon out soils, pro-
ducing heavy crops of the cereals the first year The
continued use of this kind of Guano alone for sue
cession of years brings about that condition of the
soil have alluded to- according to the expressive
phrase of planters and farmers the soil is killed. 1t
may be inquired here, if these the results of |
plaster and Peruvian Guano what they good for?
answer they the preparatives fora good system
of husbandry and are designed to save time. They |