Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-03-29
COMMUNICATED.
PHOSPHITZ VS.. PROFITS.

ABOUT the year OF lS40 Peruvian Gu
an, was introduced as a fertilizer in St.
Mays county. The price st first was
S4l.OO, and its effects were almost mag
ical. have been shown tracks on the
land where it had been used, which
were as large as No. Is or IA shoe,
which il was asserted were children's
tracks the previous day. l do not as
sert this as a fact on my own knowl-
edge; but | do assert. that CALLED xnolls
and barren fields, too poor to cover
themselves with MAY grass, gave all
the appearance, when sown in wheat,
of highly improved tobacco lots. A
column for account for low prices and
blight and guano. and one for gain,
showed that the Farmer had the pun
ishment Of Sisyphus to suffer, and that
when he would roll the stone nearly to
the top Of the hill it would roll back to
the bottom.
II was asserted that the supply Of Pc
ruvian guano wa. inc xhaustible. About
Is years proved this to be an error.
The manipulatcr was the progeny, be-
gotten Of Chincan exhaustion. This
business hourished with short life, be-
cause the compounds were cheap-Fed-
eral Hill, street DIRT and slight savor-
ing Of guano. Manipulation had but
short life, and experts in Chemistry
went upon the stand and proved that
Peruvian guano was nothing, and ma
nipulation was nothing and that Phos-
phitz was everything. Phosphitzers
sprang up like mushrooms, and they
have been giving the Farmers the Phitz
without the Phos ever since. The
stone which Sisyphus rolls up the hill
no longer stops at one place on its back.
ward roll, but goes farther down each
time. till the Farmer desponds and signs,
glancing at lost labors. What is to be
done: Everybody everywhere knows
and joins in the chorus ''Old hard times,
hard times come again." but they leave
outthe concluding spondee--"No more"
There is nothing in which Farm
er's credulity is more vulnerable than
on the subject OF fertilizers. He is no
Achilles, but soft crab. On any other
matter, for instance, some newly pat
ented plow or implement, he doubts,
though dozen men certify to the ex-
cellence. But il he has received a
pamphleton Phlumux Phertilizing Phos-
phitz, all that is necessary is to find one
person who says he has tried it side by
side Of some other fertilizer, (good for
nothing,) and that he found it as good or
better, and away he goes and orders
from one to ten tons-because il is sold
on time.
his is much worse than buying for
cash. II man loses what is his, it is
bad fortune. IL he loses another's, j,
is worse, for he has to make it up from
some other source. The times are hard,
very hard, and have consolation tina,
all men have not-rm used TO it. The
Farmers have a remedy, but it is al
most akin TO an impossibility to obtain
1t. Over-production aud bad products
have produced the result. Take away
over-produetion and bad products-its
ehild-and good times will come again.
Extortionate taxation and thieving off,
Gals swell the onus: but let the Farm
ers act in concert, generally, and taxes
and thievery can be borne. II is a
known fact that Maryland Tobacco is
nearly, independent Of any other varie-
ty, a. II such variety did exist. There
are two remedies: one the reducing
the crop planted % per Ct, the other,
the disuse of Phosphits. Some win ar
que. eff We do not, Others Will" Let
them do il. The disease will cure it
self. II is the very thing We have all
been doing to our cost. s
The universal cry Is. scarcity Of
money." Why is it, Because, the
Fasmers have nothing to sch that will
bring the money. More corn than the