The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-28
Revival Of Farming in Mississippi on the
g., ~. l.. and n. d. Railroad.

A few DAYS since we took a trip on
the great Chicogo, St. Louis and New
Orleans Railroad to Wesson, summit,
Brookhaven and Osyka, TO inquire Of
the farmers aud merchants what super
phosphates are doing for the farmers
along this line Of railroad. We found
that Stern's Fertilizer and Chemical
Manufacturing Company commenced
furnishing superphosphatcs 10 some in
telligent farmers around Osyka o
after the war. Some other fertilizers
we're also furnished by other manutac-
turers that have long since ceased to
exist. The farmers around Osyka, and
long distances east and west of that place
soon began 10 feel the s%alutary effects Of
these fertilizers, and have been paying
their old store accounts until they are
mostly out Of debt, have no mortgages
on their places, and the Osyka mer-
chants desire 10 have them trade on a
credit, which most Of them, as We are
informed, do NOT desire.
Next, these fertilizers broke out like
an epidemic in Pike county, around
Summit, and the farmers began to be
hopeful, and more energy and zeal were
infused into the farming interests of
the county, old debts were paid, the
merchants, ~ we'll as farmers. pros
percd and, nov, almost without a dis
senting voice amongst farmers or mer
chants, superphosphates are praised as
the Moses that has been leading them
out OF the wilderness, and making Pike
county their promised land
Next, the fertilizers epidemic broke
out az Br0o&havcn and in Lincoln
county. Merchants and farmers in this
town and county bear the same testi-
mony in regard 10 the magic influence
of Stern's fertilizers, there, as those Of
Summit and Pike counties have borne
In their favor below. Some other super
phosphates have been introduced on this
railroad, from South Carolina, Balti-
more. Louisville, st. Louis, etc, but
superphosphates that had been used
on the road, aud that have so complete
ly regencrated the farming interests
here are from the great New Orleans
factory.
At Wesson the merchants and farmers
told precisely the same story as those
lower down the road. And in the late
drought the triumph of these fertilizers
was complete. G.. NJ. Soria, the Presi-
dent Of the company. often repeated en-
phatically, last fall aud winter. that his
chemist and the company had been pre-
pairing a formula we'll adapted TO the
soil on the great railroad leading through
Mississippi, and that it would be com
plete triumph in a drought as well as in
good weather. His claims were com
pletely verified in the last crop. Though
the crops have not been so large as a
good season would have secured, they
gave according 10 the testimony Of mer-
chants and farmers, been one-third lsrgeE
than they would have been had not the
superph0sphate been employed to bridge
over the chasm. The crop this year in
Pike county, according 70 the shipments
at Summit and Magnolia, is greater than
the crop of 1850.
Fertilizers and better farming viii
now he the watchword Of the farmers on
this railroad. and permanent prosperity
in all branches Of agriculture in this
section o~fcountry bordering on the road
in Louisiana and Mississippi, and far be.
yond the road east and west, we be.
lieve will surely follow in due time, and
that time not far distant.