The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-12-16

HIGHEST of all in leaven1ng strengthi
--latest United Stdtes G0terH"'e"'
Food Report.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER Co.,
New York.
two foot rows aud at four inches
ensrt there would be sc, $50 plants to
tSe acre. So that, allowing for oao
seasons, accidents: ravages OF lhsec.s .s
and worms, it would appear that t%o 70
bales to the acre might ainlost oo
counted on as an average crop. TOT
one thing does seem to be clearly es
tablished, aud that is, that, unlike Tue
ordinary cotton, this plant IS more
thrifty and prolific when planted close
~ Al the time visited toe patch the
open bolls had been pretty well PICK
ed but at Mr. Jackson mouse were
n.mber of stalks which had been cu'
with all the bolls filled. No photo
anhs had been taken OF the cotton.
! 7 secured a photograph OF the held,
with the pickers just cleaning up the
natch and had several OF the stalks
With filled bolls photographed. Tne
sho~test of these is about two feet
hioh = cuttiog, and has Is open bolls.
I also had them photographed Wnlie
being held by negro laeorer. Iney
vera average stalks, and from the
root to the tip measured aoou' se'en
feet. NJ: Tho
: house counted So open oollS. 1louuSS
=. that 81 Of these had five LOCKS anu anu
S EIGHT mad six, and I was informed tnaL
some had been found with as many
+ as 10. .,ou
It peculiarity. It's smaller than thsI
l :: ordinary Gotten, so that !, 500 poun nus
n of seed cotton is calculated to MAKE
= hale ofthelin instead of ], 600 pounds
n &c viii, ordinary cotton. It appears
st aISo to hsye a characteristic mark,
o seam down the centre of one side, ane "
e Mr.. Jackson is authority for the sIate-
ir rent that it terminates from the cen
v ire instead of from either end, as does
is The common cotton. 1t IS SAID tnere
Of are nine seed in each lock, inyarlaoly.
n No new thing ever appeared shroUo.
y ed with more mysterious oflg1h ~
s. had a more romantic history. Ihls y
i'd the story that is told. Two years ago
IT, q soldier of fortune, sort on Watoet
oy ing Jew named Keil, stopped oil az AZ,
'e- Ia9ta and tarried awhile. lie 1ell III
o. with Mr.. 3. T. Jackson, took 1ancy
IL t. him and exhibited varied collec,
tion of curios which he said ne hao
cd gathered in his travels. Among them
* Was wonderful specimen OF cotton.
Nv ~ r. T',S yss - a cntting IS inches long, which
I IoS- contained Sc perfect opsn bolls. ne
ver had cut il. he said from q 20-foot stalk
av. he found growing in front OF nut IN
20 Wild nsrt of interior Africa, near
led CONGO river 700 miles from the coast.
mt There were numerous other stalks OF
the toe same height, and they seemeo 20
ew ha nsed for ornamental purposes: ms
ne cutting he had secured and KEPT sin'
hat vly as curiosity.
nds Mr. Jackson's interest was naturally
ch, aroused. His father has long been an
ady exuerimenter in the fields OF hortlcul
Dos. tnre He produced the Jackson
be wonder butter bean, which has oeen
cot taken up and pushed by one OF tn'
r of LEADING seed men of the country. nj
said startled some friends once by giving
Tere them ripe tomatoes from the top OF
.use |;ne % and unearthing potato bulbs a
that its roots-a vast mystery III ne eA
ton nlained his success at grating; am
the there is in his door yard peachI: ire
: Sc wbich bears double blossoms like
ETY.. rose, and psachy-looklng frult VIZ; sa
suit tastes like the seed OF rose l0r Or.
The is peach graft on rose STOCK. ~
ght, ally it was agreed that s9e oaoh'stH eh 81
me. should take the cotton and see "hat
ap- would do in this country. FROM Ln,
this seed 81 stalks only were ralsed' .g o.
ct in some of them were wonders. MI
Jackson sent three stalks tothe Alial
urad IA exposion, where they appeared
sIks. the exhibit OF the Plant railway sY
rreat tenn. One stalk was seven feet hlgl
Iess smother nine and another fourteen
r. is and there were 15S bolls on this on
YER, The results were so satisfactory tn;
roWs Mr.. Jackson concluded to send he
fo,r bsck to Africa for several bushels
stalk seed. He was gone four months, an
,ntl7 when he returned reported Inat
and found the whole region where ne ms
seoured the cotton devastated by
short forest fire. and there were no lrac
II the left of either cotton or villagers
fruit, What will be the future OF the CT
med. ton is yet problematical 1t IS 'r!
that that a responsible looking maa was
drops Atlanta, representing himself 70 70
than the agent of crowd OF South Gee
n the gis farmers who were ready 10 p
lvan- SIS. 600 for the seed to destroy. thel
i as out he didn't succeed in reach1ng y
the Jackson. Negotiatiops-zEsl-1Sss-
Torm, to sell the entire ps5duct, some
Some bushels of first1ersss seed, to New
at this leans parties, Eut they evidently a
,e due no.Esai4l.>in TIE representations MAJ
some: and beyond sending telegram to
alton, Atianta house which could give
ly ac information, they took no steps to
plant vestigate the merits Of the cotton.
after heoins to look somewhat as thou
the SINGULAR fate which has been
arcely credited to the stranger VIII pupfu' =
stage nave been divided into three porto
s,;oot, and Mr. Jackson now retains o.
ansive shout third. Mr.. Jackson agreed
Sar Of cive third of the profits to keli
nd its another third to man IN Alaoat
matu who advanced the money TO seno
s been back to Africa. Some months
OF au- Keil disappeared, and was last ne I
;eot of from in Alaska. Recent y man II
and its Texas appeared with a claim for kf
room third, alleging that it had been ir<
a DIS ferred 20 him, ana SO . 0lstSion
and made. Mr. Jackson may sell ont
,.gond holding IN bulk or ne may ,,,st 81
5 talk small lots 10 lnolElouais, 9"o
v who friends are urging him to replantl
'ns,;nn ~ entire lot of seed, so that more t
belief ough experiment may be made Al
.;ot;os r,eena con uincinn demonstration be