Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-02
Fertilizer For Farms.
HOW CROPS ARE PRODUCED ON
THE WORKOUT SOIL
IN THE EAST.
1t Costs as Much to Enrich The Land
As Western Farms are Worth,
still The Eastern Tilier
of The Soil Makes
Money.

Money.
Editorial Correspondence of the Ledger.
SOUTHAMPTON, L.. l., n. ",
July 2S.-Farming has its hardships
everywhere, but in the east the
chief trouble is the amount of money
paid for fertilizer. Every year for
every crop you have to spend more
per acre for fertilizer than an acre
of fine land in Missouri, which
needs no fertilizer, will cost. This
seems a strong statement but it is a
fact, and, at the same time. farm
ers make money here. Immense
crops can be raised where you use
the right kind of fertilizer, and we
think something of this kind could
be used to advantage in portions of
the west. A very little money spent
in this direction would work won
ders on cold worn out" land. From
what we can hear there must be a
million, more or less, different kinds
of patent fertilizer. In the west we
have patent beds, patent stoves,
patent cnurns, ETC.; in the east you
have patent fertilizer without num-
Der, each one warranted to be bet
ter than all the rest. Patent medi-
cines are not in it for efficacy when
compared with patent fertilizer.
Children can tell you the analysis
of each kind before they know their
letters; they can tell you which
kind is good for corn, which for
oats, potatoes, etc. After prayer
meeting and after the ball you talk
about the latest patent fertilizer.
The coy maiden asks her steady
company, "Are you posted on the
patent fertilizers? How many kinds
are there? What is the analysis of
each? What is good for such and
such a CROP" etc. All depends on
correct answers. No wonder the
boys begin posting up early. All
this and more seems strange to a
westerner who is used to the broad
rich prairies of Missouri; but, as We
intimated above, good results can
be obtained in this direction in parts
of the west. In the course of ten or
twenty years more pains will be
taken in caring for farm lands in the
western states. Lands everywhere
will wear out if not rested and fed.
This is a veritable garden spot under
the careful attention of the hus-
bandman. Careless farming here
would bring the worst results.
Enough would not he raieea TO pay
for the fertilizer.
| am becoming anxious to get
back to work and will leave here in
a day or two for Washington City
and after a stop off there will be
back in dear old Mexico soon. l
guess now is a good time to visit
Washington if one wants to see how
things are done there. 1t does look
to me as though the Senate and
House ought to get together and &C.
complish something. The Demo-
cratic majority knows what the peo-
pie want and | don't understand
what is the matter. Is it possible
that German and one or two others
can block the wheels of the govern
ment? | believe that if the Senators
were elected by the direct vote of
the people they would be more in
touch with and more anxious to
please their constituency.
Taking advantage of the Demo-
cratic necessity, three Senators COM
bine to protect their own special in
terests. To accomplish this they re-
verse the principle of tariff reform to
which the Democracy is pledged,
change the character of the tariff
bill as it came from the House, and
then declare that the bill as they
have transformed it must be accept
ed as a Democratic tariff bill or the
country must remain under McKin-
ley protection for the corporations,
trusts and monopolies.
Three Democratic Senators stand
up in opposition to forty of their
Democratic associates, to the over
whelming Democratic majority of
the House of Representatives, to the
| Democratic President and the Demo-
cratic Secretary Of the Treasury, and
say: ave will confer, but you must
yield what we demand or we will
defeat your tariff BILL"
This is in plain truth the position
occupied by Senator German and his
associates.
1t is imperative that the Demo
cratic party pass a tariff bill at once.
Surely the will of the people cannot
be defeated. Something must be
wrong with the rules by which Iegis-
lation is accomplished. If this is a
fact, the people are patient but will
prevail. BOB WHITE.
TIP YOUR HAT