The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-01
MUSTBE A MISTAKE E.
THAT IS WHAT MR. YIELDS BOOK
KEEPER SAYS.

Between Nj. Weld and the Scriven
Alliance Club-Inspector Woolly's
Investigstion-Prof. White Says His
Analysis Was Made from the Top Of
the Sample.
The trouble between John D. Weld and
the Scriven County Alliance Club, reported
in the MORNING NEWS Atlanta dispatches
yesterday, was the talk among fertilizer
men on the Bay.
The transaction took place last spring.
Briefly stated, Mr.. Weld sold to the alliance
club thirty-seven tons of Bowkers' dissolved
bone phosphate, every sack of which had an
inspectors tag upon it. The club, it is said,
drew from three sacks a sample Of the
phosphate, which was sent to Representa-
tive Humphreys, at Atlanta, to DO ANAL Zed,
! when IL y as found that the result was I'M
satisfactory. The matter was placed before
| the commissioner of agriculture, and he
marked the bottle containing the sample
and sent it to State Chemist White, at
Athens, for analysis. The analysis showed
the phosphate to be a high grade, the
commercial value Of which was $25 AZ. The
| truth OF tre analysis was questioned by
Representative Humphreys, and portions
of the samples were analysed by chemists
in Atlanta, whose analyses showed the
guano to be poor grade phosphate with
com mercial value Of $l1 n and $l2 81 re-
spec lively.
| LOOKED INTO BY AN INSPECTOR,
Commissioner Henderson then sent In
spector Woody of this district 60 5criven
county to investigate the matter. Another
| sample, it is claimed, OF the same fertilizer,
was procured and both state chemist White
and the chemist Of Atlanta agreed that it
was poor grade of phosphate with a
commercial value not exceeding 81 ~
| Inspector Woolly came to Savannah to see
Mr.. Weld, and found that the thirty-seven
tons had been tagged, but the record Of the
! department shows that il was fraudulently
tagged, as it had never been inspected. The
inspector has been instructed to take steps
at once to prosecute Mr.. Weld for INSIDE
meanor.
Tie peculiar status of the case has given
rise to speculations of all kinds, and nobody
will be the outcome of it. A MORNING
NEWS reporter called at Mr..
Yields office yesterday. Mr., Weld is in
Boston and no one knew when he will re-
turn. Mr.. w. 2. OFT, who represents Mr.
| Weld in his absence, was not disposed to be
at all apprehensive of any tedious htiga-
| ton. He believes that there is a mistake
| somewhere and that Mr.. Weld will have no
trouble in proving that the standard Of the
phosphate was all right.
WHAT MR.. OFT SAYS.
"We have sold thousands Of tons of the
| phosphate" Mr.. OFT said, ito some Of the
very mon who compose the Scriven
| Alliance Club, and never before
has there been a single complaint
| We have never received a line from the
club, and were not apprised of what steps
the farmers had taken until informatio
was received through Inspector WOOL v"
Mr. hot > A.,
he procured a sample of the phosphate
after the first analysis had been made, but
he said that he is under the impression that
the fertilizer was in the ground before that
time. 1.-The phosphate that we sold," he
added, sis used only for composing; that
is, for mixing with cotton seed, lot
manure and leaves or pine straw. 1t
cannot be used on the farms in the same
| manner as fertilizer is used. II it is, the
result is unsatisfactory. In reference to
the grade of the phosphate, Mr.. OFT said
that it Is as good as any for the amount
asked for it. The supply which the Scriven
club got, he said. was fresh lot
HOW THE FERTILIZER is RECEIVED.
"How do you receive it?" he was asked.
''In bulk from the manufacturer. 1t is
then inspected and afterward sacked and
tagged"
|
Mr.. Woolly says it was not, ,but,,it is my
impression that it was. | know all the
other phosphate was"
How do you account for the difference
in the analysis and the difference in the
relative commercial values placed on the
phosphate by tue state chemist and the
Atlanta CHEMISTS"
II am unable to say. The analysis of the
state chemist is too high, while that Of the
Atlanta chemist is much too low.n
THE FERTILIZER REPORTS.
Mr.. OFT showed the agricultural fertilizer
report issued by the state agricultural COM
missioner giving a list of the guanos
and phosphates, inspected, analysed and
admitted to sale in Georgia during
the seasons Of 1S88-'S9 Bowkers'
Dissolved Bone Phosphate appears
on the list with a relative commercial value
of SIT "A. He produced an analysis of the
state chemist at Bradley, S. c., Of the same
phosphate, admitting the fertilizer into the
state for sale. The relative commercial
value of it was practically the same as that
OF the Georgia CHEMISTS.
M Ott said that it is plain to every req
sonable mau that no manufacturer will per-
init goods to go out when they are below
the standard, or not what they are repre-
sented TO be, if he hopes to retain the GUS
tom OF the people. He said that Mr., Weld
has been in Savannah for the past eight
years, and he has been selling the brand Of
phosphate about which the complaint is
made steadily during that time, and where
1t IS used properly it has given the most
perfect satisfaction.
AN INVESTIGATION PROBABLE
Mr.. OFT added that no doubt an investi-
cation of the matter will reveal many
things that the public does not now know
Nobody knows yet, he said, who put the
samples up. MIR. Weld was certainly not
represented when the sample was drawn.
Mr.. Weld, he said, win be in Boston TODAY
when he will receive the notice of the in
spection, and it is likely that he will return
to Savannah.
Inspector Woolly, in his report to Com.
missioner Henderson, says in regard to the
samples of the fertilizer:
Mr. Evans accompanied me to the farmsyof
most or the gentlemen who purchased the lot
or fertilizers. AT the farm of Mr.. H. D. Lee l
FOUND two sacks of the lot and brand in cues
non, which had not been opened. | opened
These two bags and proceeded to take a fair
sample, which l bottled and sealed and de-
livered to your office in Atlanta on Aug 10
| together with report covering said
sample. After leaving Mr.. Evans went
to the depot at Halcyondale, and on inquiry
from the agent found that this thirty seven
tons was shipped from Savannah on March s
last went thence to Savannah and on the
morning of March called at the office of John
| ID. we'd. On comparing my record with his il
was clearly shown that no such lot of fertilizers