The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-04

THE CONSTITUTION PEA.
Harry Edwards Makes Valuable Discovery
and Tells About 1t.

Harry Edwards Makes Valuable Discovery
| and Tells About 1t.
Editor Constitution-This is year for can
didates, and L beg that you will allow me 70
| introduce new one through the medium OF
your widely read columns. He comes, not
seeking office Of any kind, and his mission mas
| treasures. unlimited coinage nor pensions.
| He is philanthropist, pure and simple. his
| labor will be to restore the Impoverished COT
| ton and corn lands of the south snd add lat
to the desolate swine that at this season OF
the year go about seeking what they may
devour His name-the one l have bestowed
| is The Constitution Pea.
do not Claim in this introduction the
discovery Of new variety. 1t has been known
| for manv years to the negroes upon a plahta-
ton in this county that some time since came
into my control, and it was there first pointed
out to me 1t is probably known to others.
But L do claim that the pea is one that III
these times, at least, has been overlooked,
when it should have been zealously guarded,
and thai it has no contemporary OF equal
value.
The first claim this outcast may make is
Immortality. 1t is practically impossible to
1t grew the year before, hOurishes and passes
away to come again. Corn and then oats
planted above him the same, and even late
crop of cotton on the oat stubble Will not, not
discourage him. When the last crop IS lalu
by he makes his appearance, grows with mar
velOus rapidity, spreads his leaves. runs out
his pods and natures his seed. If the land
lies out he comes up among the weeds, WING
ing in and out and crawling over them, making
The well known "Claybank' will also repro
duce itself, but it is not rival by any means
The SECOND claim to public favor is me vig nd
and prolificness of this pea. The vine l send
you by express today IS from one rootstock,
as you will perceive. This root is about an
inch in diameter. 1t was the largest L found
in three minutes search among the corn.
The vine, as growing, would have covered the
floor OF an ordinary room 1t was growing on
land that will produce this year about ten
bushels of corn to the acre-a gray loaIn. Inc
root was first extracted and then drawn untn
cornstalks weeds and grass. Probably 10
per cent of the vine remained behind Ger
tainly the rough handling must have stripped
it Of large number of the pods. Yet from
the vine L plucked 800 pods. Ten pods taken
at random shelled out 161 peas, an average
of sixteen to the pod, and grand total from
that the ends of other vines were drawn with
this one, but not as many as the vine lost by
for half a mile before the picking
Can any peavine In the world equal this
productI Think of it, practically 10000 for
one, and this one an UdtcaSt.
But the peas upon this vine represent its
smallest value. 1t has without care or cul
tiyation covered fifteen feet square, or 225
plantfort than 1t was six months since. If
the vine had been turned in by the plow it
however, upon The Constitution floor may en-
rich mnay thousand acres.
And And therein is its third claim The
turned nndc. green or cured is well known
everywhere in this day and generation. No
commercial fertilizer can supply all the equya>
Tents of pea crop. Not only through the
medium of its own organization does it rob
the air and subsoil for the benefit of the
cool and moist, promoting condensation and
lie fFther maftea" RtepIbmsg the Soil
Loose Sc ana no, pllabie This is the proven action
this service in the highest degree is nss,rcdlg
the most valuable. The only rival THE Con
Of GRID
the Conch is not prolific nor is it Immortal
1et 1t sells, or sold few years since at S.
Lastly, the modest little black pea have
t been writing about is eagerly devoured by
the corn fields eagerly choosing peas thp
other vines and leaves, and both trampline
In sde SEED , fGr next years supply Planted
with the fall oats and given few weeks
after the oats are cut in the spring they
for cotton or corn and are on hand aeain the
following years. Probably if cultivated. thnv
vii produce two crops in a season. but this |
The vine ! send you is from land in this
county CBibbl. near Macon. In ante belinm |
who lost his life iu the confederate serve
The old negroes sav it has "always' been
upon the place, and that twelve years ago
troublesome q lad every vine pulled IN but
without affecting the pea very greatly, which.
IKE many tDeiIDerS or the Pulse family |
seem to have the faculty of holding in reserve
q supply OF seed for any contingency II is |
also sald thar IN some years the peas come red,
ma i'll support of this, it may be added fbot |
have found few vines with seed so nolorad
The pods are about seven inches long N
If there IS any other land-euricfing product
n Georgia that will fatten stock y0IintoriIr
tnd perSStcnty reproduce itself and yiaid |
ooo0 to one without cultivation. I have MOI |
leard of it. Ever farm in Georgia shouId
lave II, and in this respect. as well rs In tLa |
nanfold advantages 1T possesses il resembles |
IS namesake. The Constitution itself.
HARRY STfLLWELL EDWARDS |
Macon, Ga, September so, 1892
The Champion Cotton ?ickers.
Cordele, Ga, September .-S-(Speciall
'lr. j. Q. James, che OF Dooly's most nrnsl
erouS farmers, Who lives a few nil
outhcast OF Cordele, near patesyille. has
our sons that are certainly in it when If
ONES to picking Cotton. Here is the mum
er of pounds tha they picked one day t
lst week. and it wasn't q good day for
licking cotton ethd': Henry. 3l,2: Jimmie G
Is; Charley, 392 and Johnnie, 2jO Total: I
/ $50 :
If any one in this county realizes anv-
hing from his cotton, that man will he
@. James.
The New Gold Cure.
rom Judge.
'JobSon is n different man since he triad
lie gold cure" u
II Gidu't know he drank to excess"
ne didn't lie was poor and he married
heress."