Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-18
..cs 'gEIzIsN LABOR AND NORTH
EfN CAPITAL.

This being an "off" year i'll politics,
some uf our Northern contemporaries,
that usually delight in talking about
Southern "rehels' and "traitors :"
and The proper punishment due their
criraas, have made the astonishing
discovery thai ,!le South is capable Of
something else than Matching treason.
The Philadelphia -imcricon and
G0>lH,, affords Il notable instance of
this surprising sagacity. 1t gravely
informs its readers that, although ''for
long period tie Northern press was
in tha habit Of depreeiating the modes
OF agriculture at the South, as being
wastefui and ,nthrifty !: as wearing
ont the land and abusing the gifts of
nature, the planters now study economy
III every practical way, and are espe
cialIy aevstnd to the use OF fertilizers
ontheirpoor iands.' This is gratifying.
They lIaye been a long lime at it,
bat 1ur Northern friends have learned
al last, ana II considerable cost, that
what Southern niet, i:iiGW about plant
ing is worth knowing
The failure OF Northern men to grow
the weed successfully has been almost
literally without exception. They
have learned that the aristocratic
Southerner can raise cotton as well as
he Get, t,ght. It is well.
But o1u i,iaii;a4s:el;;s1ia contemporary
hes scarcely began 10 teii ~ story. 1T
Grayely informs It's readers that our
friends over in South Carolina, by the
extensive use Of fertilizers, have
"pFoaHae4 cotton crops three weeks
ahead 81 iiIa HeiaiissQfing States, " and
that, too, superior, "both in the
quality and the color" OF the staple,
and lave thus "reaped the benefit of
fr1!I prices bybcing first i'll the market. .
We 2sa,s,ss:.ttly- rejoice in the good fortune
of our f1o,ist. .,,lrolina friends; We
rather think. however, -aeet the fact
will take Mr.. Dickson and our oeo4gia
friends somewhat by surprise. "Three
weeks i...sad' would do well enough
for gl1ano advertisement.
But. according to ohr eotemporary,
it appears that in Georgia, So great
has been the demand for fertilizers
that the supply has run short and no
more can be had. Indeed, some of the
''gray lands" OF Northern Georgia,
where neither corn nor wheat would
grow, have. hy the use Of guanO,
become the choicest cotton lands,
80 that son some Of the poorest of the
luHd ta.i1tr bales of cotton were raised
CT thirty-eight ;,.4e@c, We presume
however that it is only L.. lI,2rtnnate
So1,I. Carolina that fertilizers mature
cotton three weeks ahead, as we
hear nothing Of thear -vonderful power
IN this; respect i'll Georgia.
IN Alabama and Mississippi too, fer
5iliZers have come into use and call
,he poor, exhausted and abandoned
ands have been put under culture
With cotton III this manner" The
,nly ''trouble is that the supply is ex-
What a D.tty that our benevolent
friends at the Nort4, Lad not increased |
helr hspufacturing capacity in order
o prevent the exhaustion of the sup
,ly of those wonderful fertilizers that |
promise to create such a tremendous
Increase in the capacity of the South
or the production of cotton. Especial
= does it seem strange that our be-
evolent friends at the North have
allied to produce n supply equal to
BE- demand in view of the fact, q fact !
hat W 2ii got learn from our cotem-
or.uH however, .thia.: tfatflyses by com
etrns experts proved that six cu of
s. ss.eive sumples'' OF special fertil-
:crs offered faT sale ina single North
III city Contained 80 much sand or
rick dust that they were WORT, lass
ian $50 per ton for the fertiizing in -,
'elients they contained yet the =
lls,lllg price was about $50 per ton" 5
ney ought, indeed, to be called the .
Door mans friend" for, according to t
Y Philadelphia cotemporary, the Q
ect produced by fertilizers is re :
ost remarkable in the poorest dis i
cts where the lands were exhausted t.
naturally bad" Here again is c