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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-09-22

DON'T lose sight of the fact that
clarksburg has today brighter prospects
than ever before. Her future is not spec
ulative, it is plain as the Handwriting
on the WALL" just consider the many
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-09-22

has not been offered before,
We have large list Of properties q
all kinds and IN al parts Of the city ana
at prices within the reach Of al buyeE
If interested, call ON US and We WIZ
be pleaIed to show you.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06
Farmers Storing Their Cotton.


All of the cotton brou0ht into the
city yesterday was not sold. There
are two or three bonded warehouses
here, where cotton may be stored,
with insurance, for about Is cents
a bale per month. A large number
of farmers have been taking advan-
tage of these warehouses for the
past few years., and have held their
cotton for better prices. Some OF
the farmers who had cotton yester-
day, when they learned that the
staple had fallen to 9 cents, stored
what they had.-Charlotte Observer
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06

be sensibly controlled by the nutri+;ro
ratio only if other more important
factors of growth and DEVELOPMENT
such as environment, etc., have bean
given due consideration. From onr
field Investigations it does not an
pear that the low yield of five 70
eight bushels to the acre on the Cecil
clay of North Carolina, as comnarad
with the twenty-five to thirty bushels
of wheat obtained from the same soil
under better methods Of cultivation
can be due to a defective nutritive
ratio in the first case, and that. there
fore, this can not be in general an
important cause of low crop yields.
and that the subject of nutritive ra-
ito can, therefore, safely be put aside
for the present as of relatively little
Importance to the farmer, however
great its Importance may be to the
horticulturist and foriculturist un-
der the intensive system of c~ultiva-
ton practiced in those special lines.
''THE CONTROLLING FACTOR IN YIELD
Is NOT THE AMOUNT OF PLANT
FOOD
"The exhaustive investigation of
many types Of soil by very accurate
methods of analysis, under many
conditions of cultivation and crop
ping, in areas yielding large crops
and in adjoining areas yielding small
crops, has shown that there is no OBJ
vious relation between the amount of
the several nutritive elements in the
soil and the yield Of crops; that is
to say, that no essential chemical
difference has been found between
the solution produced in a soil yield
ing a large crop of wheat and that
in a soil of the same character in
adjoining fields giving much smaller
yields. The conclusion logically fol-
lows that on the average farm the
great controlling factor in the yield
of crops is not the amount of plant
food in the soil, but is a physical
factor the exact nature of which is
yet to be determined"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06

Waxhaw Enterprise: Perhaps the
first corn harvester ever in use in
this section has been at work in the
fields around town this week. 1t
is a fine piece of mechanism and har-
vests the corn as though it had a
certain degree of intelligence OF Its
own. It cuts the corn and ties 1t IN
bundles and punches it like a reap
er does wheat. It is drawn by wv
mules and harvests several acres OF
corn in aday. The machine is the
property of Mr.. Fl. F. BiVens. Inc
corn harvester is a great feed saver,
especially if it's work is followed
later by that of a shredder.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06

composition in different types of soil
and in soil under good and poor
methods of cultivation, and that
there is more of these fertilizing in
gradients in all the soils reported
in the foregoing tables than the
plant actually needs be sustained, it
may be that the role of fertilizers
require other explanations than
those now generally accepted.
"There is no question that in GER
tain cases, and in many cases, the
application of commercial fertilizers
is beneficial to the crop. The ex-
perience of farmers, the enormous
sums expended for commercial ferti-
~lizers, and the many experiments
carried on at the experiment stations
prove that under certain conditions
fertilizers are very beneficial in in
creasing the yields of crops. The
fundamental idea under all of this
work, however, has been that of sup
plying plant food in an available
form; that is, adding to the supply
existing in the soil. It is significant
that other conditions of growth have
so much influence on the yield that
in but very few instances, even after
long continued experiment, has il
been demonstrated hat any particu.
lar fertilizing ingredient or ingredi.
ents are required for any particular
soil, and that even then the effect Oh
the fertilizer varies sc greatly from
year to year that no specific law has
been worked out, even for a particu.
lar soil, from which the fertilizing
requirements could be deducted il
any exact manner.
ct is also significant that, in gen
eral farming, fertilizers are mos
useful in the early stages of the
growth of plants, and the common
practice is either to put the fertilizer
in with the plant or to put it in a
some time before the seed is planted
Very little effect is obtained in field
culture in attempts to increase the
value of a crop showing signs of in
ferior growth, by the application o:
fertilizers. This would indicate tina
the effect is early and immediate. II
opposition to this may be cited tn,
special cases of the application Q:
nitrates to increase leaf development
potash salts to increase starch, an
many similar cases, particularly IL
greenhouse culture, to hasten tn
maturity, to prolong the growth, o
to produce artificial stimulation O
certain plant processes. But the US
of fertilizers in such cases is recog
nized as PRODUCING artificial and ab
normal conditions
NO PERMANENT STANDARD FOR FEE
TILIzING.
"In the cooperative expert
ments carried on by Atwater, numel
Gus cases are cited where phosphori
acid is said to be a regulating il
gredient and the predominatin
factor in controlling crop yields on
year, while it is more or less emc
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06

be designated as a dominant factor
in the yield of the crop, while on the
same soil in a different season it has
no apparent effect. 1t is not that
the effect is one year greater and the
next year less, which might be at
tributed to the previous application,
but it is just as likely to be ineffci-
ent n year and the controlling fac
tor the next year as it is to be a
controlling factor one year and in
efficient the succeeding year.
PRoPER CULTIVATION MORE IMPoR-
TANT THAN FERTILIZERS.
zone possible explanation of the
effect of fertilizers, which would be
in entire accord with the hypothesis
that has been formulated, is that the
fertilizer is needed during the early
period of growth when the root sys-
TEN is beginning to develop, that is,
as the plant terminates and begins
to feed upon the soil the root sys-
tenn has to be ~artifcally nourished
by a temporary increase in oncen
tration as regards n or more con-
stituents, whereas, when the root sys-
tenn is developed into a considerable
| volume of soil the plant will be quite
capable of collecting all of these ma
t~erials it may require. It is a fact,
admitting of no argument, that fer
t~ilizers rarely take the place of eff
fcient methods of cultivation and of
cropping in increasing or maintain
ing crop yields. With the present
methods of cultivation, the difference
between the yield of eight bushels of
wheat per acre on the Cecil clay in
North Carolina and twenty-five to
thirty bushels per acre on the same
soil in Maryland can not be adjusted
by the application of any kind or
any amount of fertilizers to the
North Carolina soil. Some instances
occur, however, where under more
perfect methods of cultivation and
cropping twenty-five bushels of wheat
have been obtained year after year
on the North Carolina soil, but this
involved fundamental changes in
the physical character and condition
of the soil which would be amply
sufficient to explain the difference in
yield.
RATIO OF PLANT FOODS A MINOR
CONFEDERATION.
"The idea now held by the Bureau
as a result of these Investigations
is that the ratio Of the nutrient ele-
ments in normal soils does not play
a very important part in the yield
of crops, or, to be more explicit, low
yields are usually related to the ply
steal conditions and characteristics
of the soil, and hat it is only after
these major controlling factors are
changed and the yields thereby in
creased, that it would be necessary
or profitable to consider this ques-
ton of the ratio of plant foods. In
other words, that it is only where all
other conditions of plant nutrition
and growth are satisfactorily CON
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06
STARTLING STATEMENTS ABOUT
FERTILIZERS.
An Agricultural Department Bulletin
Contradicts Some Popular Theories
About Plant Foods.

A week or two ago The Progressive
Farmer received the following state
ment from the Department of Agri-
culture at Washington:
CHEMISTRY OF SOILS AS RELATED TO
THE YIELD OF CROPS
"The Secretary of Agriculture an
nounces that the Bureau of Soils has
Just finished an exhaustive investiga-
ton of the chemistry of soils as re-
lated to the yield of crops. The re-
suits indicate that practically all
soils have sufficient available plant
food for normal crop yields, and that
this supply is constantly maintained
through natural agencies in the soils
~dissolving the material of the soil
grains. The difference in yield is
dependent upon the condition and
kind of cultivation and rotation of
crops, maintaining certain necessary
physical conditions in the soil, under
which this plant food can be used by
the crop. A bulletin has just gone
to press giving the details of the in
vestigation, and discussing the infu-
ence or climate, texture of soils, ro-
tation, fertilizers, and soil manage
ment upon the yield of crops. The
work is based upon analyses by new
and exceedingly sensitive methods,
by which the amount of plant food
in the soil moisture itself, which is
the great nurative solution for the
support of crops, has been deter
mined, and not by digesting the soils
in acids which attack the inert min
eral matter of the soils.
"While the conclusions appear to
be in conflict with the opinions held
for so many years by agricultural
chemists, they are in strict con
formity with the experience of good
farmers in all countries, and with
actual facts which have long been
established by agricultural chemists.
The fertility of the soils is thus
shown to be due to physical causes
which control the supply of water
and plant food which it contains, as
the soil moisture in all cases appears
to be about the same in composition
and concentration. The fertility is
therefore controlled by a physical
cause, and a chemical examination
of a soil can not be expected to in
dictate the yield of a crop. 1t is
believed that a simple physical meth,
cd will be devised for determining
the relative fertility of soils"
Our Washington correspondent al
SO alluded to this matter in his let.
ter in last weeks paper, and the
bulletin itself, which has since come
to hand, bears out all that has beer
said regarding the novelty of its
ideas and the f~ar-reaching effects OF
it's conclusions. Southern reader.
will probably be most interested il
the discussion regarding fertilizers
and the more notable paragraphs OF
this subject are given in full here
with:
THE ROLE OF COMMERCIAL FERTIL,
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-05-28

Three acres produced a crop OF
apples which sold for 81. 800.
Two and one-balf acres sold for
N. 100.
Ten acres sold for $5,ol9.
There are doubtless many Others.
but we have not the facts in the
cases. 1t will be seen that the repu-
tation Of the prodtableness of apple
growing is well founded.
Cherries. especially the late varie-
ties. are almost equally profitable. We
know Of one tree which two year.
ago had 3 crop which sold for s34.
We also know Of eight trees in one
orchard which produced cherries that
sold for so2.
As there can be easily eighty cherry
trees planted to the acre. and the
last example showed q profit in the
gross of go per tree. it can be seen
that one acre Of cherries could possi.
bly, produces 1900 worth of fruit.
Allowing for every conceivable ex-
pense the total cost of placing such n
crop on the market should not exceed
$500. leaving a very nice balance to
the credit of profit and loss
PIums and peaches are nearly rs
profitable. the great trouble with
these crops being. however, that
neither can be depended upon for n
crop. and the labor Of burying the
trees to secure crop. with the short
ened life Of the trees as consequence.
makes their culture somewhat unde-
sirAblc.
There are growers in our midst.
however, who claim that the culture
of the peach 10 moro profitable than
thas OF any other Of our large fruits,
and they can demonstrate their Asser-
tion: but while they are able to do IL,
= new hand would court failure in the
effort.
So much for what is generally
termed orchard fruits. And now
would like to draw your attention to
the more intensive farming to which
referred At the beginning of this
article.
The space between the rows Of trees.
especially in . young orchard. can be
utilized to bring in handsome returns
to the ranchmAn properly looking
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-05-28

crops 10 grow as our soil and climate
is we'll suited TO it The Fruit Grow
ers' Association, am told, could
have contracted this spring for several
cars Of cantaloupes per diem through
the season.
Sweet corn is another extremely
profitable crop, and foi which we
have All almost unlimited market at
fair prices. The average returns Of
the cantsloupe growers can be dupli-
Gated. aud the crop coming in at a
different season. can be worked TO
more advantage by the same man and
his family.
The sugar beet can be grown here
Just as we'll As in the far famed beet
fields of other portions of the state,
but do not advise the planting or
growing Of them as other crops which
we can grow in this locality, and
which our friends in other parts of
the state cannot grow are much more
profitable to the grower.
Last year one grower here made a
net profit OF el1s on one acre of sugar
beets. 1t is well to state. however.
that he was an expert at the business.
Stock beets grow we'll here, and there
is ready sale for them; . more
abundant yield could not be produced
in any land. and the usual high price
of feed in Colorado insures q very
ready sale At from $50 to t5 so Per
ton. and the tonnage per acre is only
limited practically by the amount of
care bestowed on the crop.
Tomato. growing is also capable of
producing assonishins results. Tho
Yield psrS Uss ~ Aalsssss sssssasSl<.
aud the market during the early part
of the season is quite Unsuitable at
fine prices Later in the season the
extreme prodigality Of the crop
naturally floods the markets, and the
balance of the crvp has to go to the
cAnneries, who will handle all that
can be given them. The one difficulty
with this crop in this locality is that
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-05-28

Captain @. 81. Sterry. a prominent
attorney of Los Angeles, died last
Thurtday night. He was brother of
Mrs. A. Hurlbut who resides in Fruit.
mere.
: Miss Emma Biersmith. charming
young lady Of Kansas City. will spend
the summer in Canon with her bro
ther. Mr. Herbert Biersmith the
popular Knight of the Grip.
A great deal of interest has been
manifested in the series of sermons ON
character that are being preached
by Rev. J. Kent Rizer of the Luther.
an church. The last of this interest
ing series, Influence of Character"
will be preached Sunday night.
James Noble was arrested Saturday
on complaint by Howard Russell on
the charge Of assault with intent to
kill. The arrest was made by Mar.
shal Mackenzie and the case was tried
before Justice Of the Peace Mcdonald.
who taxed the defendant si7.so which
was the fine aud costa. The trouble
arose over the much agitated water
question.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-05-28

@. NJ. Palmer an ex official of the
penitentiary moved to Seattle, Wash.
last week
Mr.. aud Mrs. W. II. Cleveland
have returned to their old home in
Abilene. Kansas.
Alfred F. Seeley has returned from
a weeks vacation in Denver. He re
ports good time.
Miss Lula Hawkey returned last
week from a pleasant visit to friends
and relatives at Rocky Ford.
Mrs George B. Raimon of Silver
Cliff who has been Visiting friends in
Canon left for her home Saturday.
William H. Cainell and Pearl Ham
ilton Of this county were married in
Canon by Judge Minor, Wednesday
May 20.
Ned Nafe has taken position in
the d. & r. G. freight of'ices At Pc-
cblo. Next year he proposes TO 60 to
Harvard University.
Miss Cora Green who has been in
the city for . number Of months left
for Rocky Ford Saturday. on the ID
vice Of her physician.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-05-28
By
JAMES TURNBULLI
Fruitgrower

sent a very ailuring prospect, and
taken all in all, believe that the
average ranchman can make more out
Of them than from any other small
crop.
The profits of strawberry culture
scarcely need to be touched ON, as
as nearly all our ranchmen are united
in saying it is the most profitable
of crops.
A few years ago one of Our fore
most fruitgrowers sold q, ,e25 worth Of
strawberries from the land between
the rows of trees on two and one
half acres of land.
Last summer, on Lincoln Park, one
grower sold $500 worth of berries from
less than an acre of land. These ex-
amples could be multiplied ad infini-
tum. We get from y to e. SO per
crate for our strawberries, and even
at u per crate there would be good
money in raising them.
The beds last for three to four
years without resetting. and come
into bearing the second year. The
crop is very hardy and very sure. and
the marSet for them appears to be
wholly Unsuitable.
Doubtless the price will go down
some in few years, but in Arkansas
they are raising, and selling straw
berries at seventy-five cents a crate
and still making lots of money at it.
A net profit of $500 per acre under
present conditions is conservatives.
Raspberries do nesriy if not quite
as we'll. especially if the grower will
raise the red and improved black
kinds.
Dewberries will yield an even
greater return per acre. but the labor
is increased. as they are like peaches
they must be buried to protect the
fruit buds in winter, and the chance
of late frost does not render the
crop so certain as the strawberry; but
for those who care to take the trouble
and give it the attention. there is
practically an untouched field in front
Of him. The berries sell for about Is
cents per pint. and then you only get
about dozen berries, right here in
Canon City.
Gooeeberries do we'll if given plenty
Of shade, As also do currants Of the
large varieties; but for this fruit the
market Is more limited.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-05-28
Sunshine in
Colorado.

Travelling for two or three months
through the great west teaches one
accustomed to New York ard New
England many things.
The native westerner knows all
about the east, but he knows all about
the west, too, while the eastern man
rarely knows anything not connected
with the east or Europe.
have heard much all my life of
sunny California, and l found in
deed much sunshine there. yet for
real continuous, glowing. golden.
reliable sunshine, Colorado is far
ahead of California. wonder we
do not hear more of that fact.
1t is an intoxicating climate at best
in the springtime. 1 am sun wor-
shipper, and it appealed directly to my
heart and mind and senses-that con-
tinual, glorious glow. And yet there
is sting and tingle to the air that
stirs people to do things and is q spur
to business and social life. saw no
dull. ennuied or pessimistic f.ce while
in Colorado. Ella Wheeler Wilcox in
New York JouAnAl.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-05-28

after it. The assertion is made. and
think Justly. that it is detriment
to the fruit treeS themselves to liant
such crops: but this detriment can be
nearly, If not quite overcome. by not
planting too close to the trees. giving
as much cultivation and as little " ater
as possible to the other crops as well
as the trees. and keeping the ground
in a high state of fertility. Then
the profits from tine small stuff added
on will more than balance the ledger.
There is. as we'll. great deal of
land near here devoted TO alfalfa that
could be put in much more profitable
crops.
Take for instance the cantaloupe.
Who has not heard of the Rocky
Ford? II is known all over this con-
tinent, and is grown very near here
in q climate practically the same as
ours, in soil much the same. aud
growers there make net profits from
the growing of the cantaloupe of all
the way from sioo to ti5o per acre.
Their great market is the eastern
market. to which we can ship just as
cbeaply as they eau If we will only
grow tn. melons in sufficient quantity
to enable our commission men to do
30. 1t is claimed that nothing will
sell but = Rocky Ford. 1 defy an
expert to tell the difference between
our melons and the real Rocky Ford
article. and our melons can b. sold as
Rock Ford's till we also establish q
reputation in the eastern markets.
We are mnch pearer to the bulk Of
the Colorado markets than il Rocky
Ford. and can therefore sell at lees
cost and make the same returns.
There arr some Of our farmers here
who even under the adverse condition
of being isolated growers. and having
therefore = limited market have yet
made returns rivAline those of the
Rocky Ford gro~ers. 1 am asked the
question frequently. Can 1 find a
mArkety'' And I answer most uu.
hesitatingly, Yes" We can sell
every cantaloupe that you or any
other grower will produce here. and
at fair prices. too.
This is one Of the best of The smaller
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-05-28
HERE AND THERE
AND EVERYWHERE
K

Mr.. NJ. 1. Maddy is quite ill Mt the
home of her daughter. Mrs. A. II.
Seeley.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. O. Foltz and son
John of Colorado Springs are visiting
In Canon this week.
F. ID. Heath. agent ID. s. r. @.
spent Sunday and Monday in Denver
on business Of his road.
Mrs. L. Shide left for Grand juno
tion whore she will reside in the fu.
ture with her daughter and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. O. Parsons who
hAvo resided In Canon for the past
three years, left for their old home in
Evcrton. No.. last week.
e. o. wescott Of Colorado Springs
was in the city last week soliciting
new members for the Modern Wood
men. We understand he was very
successful in his efYortx.
George d. Kaye formerly Of the
firm Of Kaye d Davis has sold all his
interesta In Canon and moved HIS FAM
lily TO Bouldcr. Colo., whers ne IL In.
tarra<ad in surno MINING urornrtv.