The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-20
NOTE OF WARNING
To THE FARMERS
Potash Does No Good to Sell
In Mississippi
CROPS NOT BENEFITED
Professor Hutchinson of the Expert
ment Station Is Authority For
Statement That Fertilizers
Are of No Value.

Jackson, Miss, October 19-(Special. J.
Prof w. L. Hutchinson, director of the
Mississippi experiment station at the A.
and M. college, has sounded a note of
warning to the farmers of Mississippi
that will be money in their pockets If they
heed This warning is against the use
of potash, for which the farmers of this
state have been spending an average of
100000 per annum, and which Professor
Hutchinson declares has never increased
the product of a single acre in the state,
and therefore does not pay. "They could
buy 100000 worth of sand" says Pro-
fessor Hutchinson, land 1t would profit
them just as much"
The writer declares potash has never
paid on the A and NJ college expert
mental farm, and has been found abso-
lutely worthless on the branch expert
mental farms at Mcneil, in the southern
part of the state; on the farm in the
delta and on the third farm in Marshall
county in the northern end Of the state.
Many EXPERIMENTS have been conducted,
potash has been used with every imag-
Unable kind of crop grown in the state,
and did not produce any perceptible eff
feet on the crop.
The farmers of Mississippi who have
been spending hundreds Of thousands of
dollars annually for commercial fertilizers
of one brand and another will also be
interested In the following from the same
authority:
I'VE have not found any form of COM
mercial fertilizer that would pay on the
college farm"
That may be due to the character of the
soil on the college farm, and certainly
does not apply to all soils in the state.
Al the recent state convention of the
W. C. T. U. at Port Gibson, resolutions
were adopted demanding constitutional
prohibition at the hands of the legisla-
ture, and the promise Is for another fight
before the law-making body. At the first
meeting of the legislature the champions
of cold water demanded and received stat
utory prohibition. But they have never
been satisfied and are now after more,
evidently forgetting that a great many
members of the legislature would vote
against prohibition straight from the
shoulder rather than involve their state
in contest at the polls that is bound to
cause great animosities, array father
against son, neighbor against neighbor
and create i'll feelings and hatreds that
will not be wiped out for years.
There are members of the legislature
who voted for statutory prohibition who
would not think of voting for constitutional
prohibition and If the vote was ordered
there is no telling what the result might
be Under the present law the state is
getting along very well. True, blind tigers
are numerous, but there is no reason they
should not exist just as well under consti-
tutional as statutory prohibition, and any
effort to make present laws more strin-
gent may lose prohibition what it already
has In Mississippi.
The largest single purchase of railroad
equipment ever recorded in this state was
filed here today in the office of the sec
rotary of state, under the law which re-
quires record of conditional sales or
equipment, by the Frisco road-the st.
Louis and San Francisco, which owns the
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham
railroad that operates through the north
eastern part Of the state.
The total purchase price contracted to
be paid for this equipment is nearly 49,
100000, or to be exact, 81, $50, O00 of which
s0O2Oo0 is to be paid in cash on delivery of
sAio INST Gals, the remainder to bA
paid In regular semi-annual installments
covering a term of 10 years and bearing
5 per cent interest
The rolling stock included in this sale
is as follows:
Thirty locomotive engines, 10 to be of
the mammoth Pacific type; 1000 steel coal
cars 500 to be of the hopper type; thirty
one steel passenger cars five to be COM
plnation passenger and cafe cars, 10 to
be combination coach and baggage cars.
and six mail cars, with 10 elaborate pas
senger coaches; $50 fiat cars, $50 cabooses.
three hoists and three 10O-ton wreckine
cranes.
large part of this equipment is to be
delivered during the next month and the
remainder at intervals during the next
eight months. and all is to be delivered in
the city of st. Louis.
This is the second large order placed bv
the Frisco during the year.