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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-07
THE JUDICIOUS USE OF
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS
By C. K. McQusrrie.

DO best sfvantage On hand that has
been In constant cultivation for q num-
Der Of years and where the proper TO
tation Of crops has not been prao-
ticed. o; certain depletion OF son fer
tility has occurred aid q one-sided
state Of son fertility remains. This
might be called soil exhaustion"
However. II the true principles OF
scientific agriculture were carefully
observed. we would never have soil
exhaustion condition A rational sys-
tenn OF crop rotation Is the best way
Co avoid ft because different crops
make different demands on the soffs
fertility and thus maintain q bad
yields But. as already mentioned, we
have not yet arrived at the stage when
the rank and file of our aSrfcultu-
raiists understand. far less practice.
these methods. Therefore we have to
tail back on commercial fertilizer to
help W. IN growing crops. and the
foruns1iss we use on the different crops
we grow is a very important matter
in this connection, and TO work intelli-
gently along this line, we must have
some knowledge of the demands OF the
crops under consideration. For ex-
ample: It would be poor economy to
use heavy applications of nitrogen on
legurnf1fous crops because they have
the ability TO collect the free nitrogen
for the air and store 1T on their roots,
not only for their own use but for the
succeeding crop. 1t would be unwise
to fertilize Irish potatoes heavily with
phosphoric acid. whereas potash is
what this crop needs. All crops con-
sist largely of starch and sugar and
Oh 3~ fe,7
with the formation of starch and
sugar during the development of the
plant, It Is always found in combina-
tions in plant juices. Potash also al
ways plays a very important part in
the development of the f1eshy part Of
fruits of all kinds. The same may be
said Of starchy crops like corn, and
sugar crops like sugar cane
This brings me to the main point
that want DO make and 1t ts this;
that in using commercial fertiff7er for
all crops of any kind, we must see to
1t that the percentage of potash in
the mixture Is AMPLE to produce a
hight grade product
The citrus growers Of Florida have
been practicfng this method Dor a great
many years and use more potash in
their formulas than any other class
and they are getting results. Our
growers are coming around
to It and SO are the most progressive
of our general farmers, and do not
know OF any case where an ample al
allowance of potash was made in the
formula that the crops did not show
q profitable increase in yield.
The day OF the high per cent phos-
phoric acid and the low per cent of
potash in our fertilizer formulas, Is
nearing an end. Because fertilizer
is low In price Is no proof that 1t is a
good crop producer. In fact, the re-
verse is the case. and we are just be-
ginning to realize that fact. There
fore, let US pursue the policy OF seeing
that when we use commercial ferti-
lizer, we use what will give BEST re-
suits c. K. McQUARRIE,
Agricultural Adviser, Escambda Co.
Crop Imp. ASSN, and U. s. Demon
stratAon Agent, Pensacola, Florida
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-07

Arr4o11ftzrra IN the oldest OF sciences,
bur it has only been in recent years
.that str scsentfffc character has bean
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LnoA1' anu ~ us 1l'.-a $3.50 - -
eose a8r1cuiIe mas peen Dssu On :
more moepenoenL OASIS. inc sl'
Of crop rotanon' pasturin&. and rens-
ing tho soil practically In operation
centuries ago ana 5ust1ned Dy results
obtained, - today acknowledged to be
thoroughly scientific.
i r. ~ not 80 very long ago, however,
Biuce the true relation existing betwoen
tho soil and che plants which grow IN
It were discovered. When the chem
icaa baaanoe vgas perfected 20 tfat the
relnt1onship botween the condit3ons N
tho sou and results obtained was
pnoven. them crop production on q
scientific basis was established A
second great step was taken when It
was found that the food of piante was
not wnlegy furnished by water and air
as had been supposed. and when It
was further discovered that the ashes
or plants a4vTagg contained the same
substances, although In varying pro-
portions according to their type. an
other forward step was taken.
When the fact that the soil furnishes
. large part of the food Of the plant
had taken firm root I'm the MINDS OF
agricultural scientists. II was supposed
that the key to independent. success
fsn, and we might say. Revolutionary.
agriculture had been found It was
believed. and is attll SO among quite a
number OF our best asricritq,rafists.
that the analysts OF any given soil
would show the crop best suited TO it
and the deficiency for other crops
could be made up by the use or COM
anercdaa fertilizer compounded to GER
tain formulas. When we believe this,
we overlook the most important point
OF mA and that is the physical condi-
tson az the sol which L. really the key
NEE 40 rsrof1ts1hye arrfc,rItrrra. Every-
thdnx In the share OF plant food for
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-07
THE NEW STORE
OPENS MONDAY
r. C. v. SMITH, WHO HAS EsTAB-
LISHED A POPULAR PRICE
"EvERYRoDY's' STORE, HAS
GREAT FAITH IN PENSACOLA.

The new store, 'tEverybody.s,. at 123
South Palafox street IN the old P. O.
Cafe stand, opens Monday morning. It
is a popular price House Of 10000
Articles and prospects are that 1t will
DO a good business from the beginning.
r. c. v. Smith, the proprietor
whose striking resemblance to Presi-
dent Wilson occasions comment wher-
ever he goes, has come to Pensacola
with the settled conviction that this
city Is going to undergo a very rapid
growth in the very near future Mr..
Smith began making an Investigation
of Pensacola more than two years ago
and every feature OF the investigation
has configr1ed his belief as to the flu
ture greatness of the Deep Water City.
He also has q store at Guffport which
he will continue to operate there, but
he intends TO make Pensacola hts place
of residence and win bring his family
here In the winter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12

black this, verify 1t IS the Africans way
Of doing things as well as his way Of
walking. and mentally Mr.. Negro spends
his life carving out for himself a theory
that will ft the facts Of this corkscrew
path. Take. for instance. the necessary
monotonous Indian file this same narrow
trail OF ours involves: there is whole
negro philosophy OF follow your leader
meaning in this. For. as We saw. see and
shall see. the ncgros way Of doing
thing is merely to do it as the man who
went before him did II. The slaves Of
precedent, they dog the steps Of thou
sand ancestors. and such t. the tenaclty
OF the negro typo that to this day their
" hole outfit Of the twentieth Gentry y. ID
can be found perfectly reproduced on
Egyptian monuments of the same century
Il. {. Hence the Bantu song:
A well-worn trail Is a very good thing.
II must lead up TO very great kins
And so with customs OF days Of yore,
We do what millions have done before.
That is 10 say precedent not principle.
IS their black law. And any African die
tlonary tells the whole tale. for around
this germnal word path there constel-
late a dozen ideas like law. prohibition,
transgression, plan, etc.
Thus glorying in this long Indian trail
Of antiquity the Bantu tribes boast the
Identical Egyptian Kilt. mortar, pestle and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
ONE o|.
MUSHIDls
500 C.s9
q mcLoH)
WIVE

cooking ware OF the Moses period. Nor
need we wonder az this. for Is not Egypt
the door Of Africa? Moral: A thousand
years are as one day In African manners.
Time may laugh at the Pyramids. but
the Pyramids laugh at time"
This slavery to precedent is note that
is sounded very often by Mr.. Crawford.
and IL had not a little 10 do with the
fact that ne was all of thirty-two months
getting from England 10 his goal In the
Garenganze Hills. He found that recruit
ing carriers for journey was exactly
like working Il slot machine. He had 10
drop his money into the political mach!n-
cry of the district being canvassed before
anything could be got out. Then for
days. or even weeks at time, the cara
van would be held up by staring tribes
men, who blocked the trail under the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
The Story of One Who Bored Into the
Dark Continent and Made Himself the
Mental Interpreter of the "Festooned
Mind" of Tribesmen There.

wooden and dead. You have lost the
gesture, the cadence, the flash Of the
eye"
Mr. Crawford nevertheless, has instilled
into his story of Thinking Black some
thing that seems to culver with life. 1t
was suggested that he had emerged I.Jm
the jungle with d vocabulary far from
rusty. Had he kept by him "a choice
lot of English classics iest he forget?
Not so.
1.-The greatest JOY of my life in Africa
he said, was in getting away from your
literature. Give me any word have used
in my book and | will give you some
thing equivalent in the Lubaland tongue.
My theory in life always was, Truth is
far stranger than fiction When blood
was running far thicker than water in
Central Africa | made it point If only
in five lines, to record the incident tor
posterity Yet such is the curious neon
sistency of life that / have come back
TO my own data long afterward and re-
fused almost 10 believe my own record.
"A native saw me thus writing. At last
the idea of what ! was doing penetrated
his brain" And into the black mans
query as he repeated il Mr.. Crawford
wove surprise hurt note, sound OF
sorrow and pity in the tone: Are you
imprisoning words"
Then again comes that upward sweep
of the arm. as the missionary cries out
at the futility of the written word. Gag
ing an eagle-imprisoning a lion" Let
us turn to the pages of mis- own book to
see what Mr.. Crawford has accomplished
by way Of making verbal 700 of words.
Most of it was written in the midst Of the
blacks, by the light Of a campfire or
crude lamp burning sesame. something
like linseed oil. The author is thinking
black" from cover TO cover.
Grover Cleveland had just begun mis-
second administration when Mr.. Crawford
sat down in Benguella to wait for his
band of black carriers who were 10 lead
him through the mountain gateway and
along a thousand miles of jungle-choked
trail, "the most famous slave track in the
world" as he calls il. This cartwheel rut
is the main highway from Benguella to
the far interior.
"In this serpentine path" says Mr..
Crawford. I'VE have the strategic key to
the citadel of the black brain. Thinking
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12

Is one of the biggest abrupt labor dis
turbance phenomena in the field Of mod
err economies Yet it Is scarcely a dis
turbance, so smoothly does the army OF
merchants and caterers and show folk
glide off into their new orbits
Some will rest throughout the winter.
some will take up other forms Of work;
others will work elsewhere at their
trades, and others will go home TO Eu-
rope. TO Africa. to Asia The ripples
from this outnung mass OF workers will
radiate across the Atlantic till they lap
the shores Of Morocco and Egypt. across
the Pacific till they lap the shores Of
Japan.
This has been the most prosperous sea-
son the amusement parks have ever
known, due In no small measure to the
exceptionally fine run of the weather.
oddly enough, however, there has been
lacking the usual seasons novelty In
amusement devices. No new contrivance
TO thrill or captivate has made its APP
pearance. Several surprises. however, are
promised for next year.
1t is the food sellers at the amusement
parks who have been making the most
money, and, moreover. the men who sell
food cheap. The owner OF a frankfurter
and sandwich booth at Coney Island,
with l5-foot counter. is reputed to
have cleared $4,000 net profit this summer
all on nickel sandwiches. lemonade and
coffee. Indeed. the sandwich and cheap
lunch places have been making far more
money than the expensive beach restau-
rants. With few exceptions, the expensive
places don't produce much net profit In
the course Of a season.
You hardly realize, until you have
begun to make a list of them, the great
number OF trades and callings represent
ed In modern amusement park. They
are pretty we'll all there except the un-
dertaker-and he too. is represented at
Coney Island, though he doesn't find 1t
necessary to take booth on Surf ave-
nue. and bark" for trade First, there
are the construction men-carpenters and
painters and decorators and electricians.
Then the cooks and walters and dish
washers. The "spielers." the ticket SELL
ers. the guides the gatekeepers. the
movie operators. the photographers, the
novelty dealers, the fortune telers. the
Wild beast trainers and attendants, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
MAGIC OF HAssAN BEN ALI.

Hassan Ben All will breathe a sign or
rolIef when the last OF the Serbs, the
Arab tribesmen who have been appear
ing I'm Fire and Sword at Luna, have
been safely shipped aboard vessel
bound for the Mediterranean. for Hassan
IS under bond TO the immigration authori-
ties for every man OF them. and must
kiss goodby to a sheaf OF 800 bills for
every one who is not accounted for at the
end of the month.
Hassan is Luna's provider OF denizens
OF the desert. II Luna wants a tribe or
two OF swarthy sons OF Mahomet the
MANAGEMENT nonchalantly mentions the
fact TO Uassan, over postprandial
cigar. and Hassan does the rest. He
went To Northern Morocco for the Serbs
appearing In Fire and Sword. TWO OF
them have brought their yelled wives
along. and one of the ladies has. besides
a baby. a little boy who VIII be having
the time Of his young lie all winter,
holding forth to his untravelled comrades
at home on the marvels MS american
year has shown him.
Nine. Carmen. who wears bang and
three West African rock pythons most
OF the time and has two giant POISONOUS
lizards-a gila monster and THU mon
ster-and a handsome husband close at
hand. In Crazy Town, expects to go TO
Cuba. for the winter. taking along the
serpents and the monsters and her hus-
band and two young alligators from the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
Tie Mop HEADReSS DOES As MUCH
EXECUTION ~ g. HOoBLE Skl2T

guise Of making blood brothers with the
strangers and allowed IL TO be opened up
only after their curiosity or fear or
greed had been satisfied.
The natives were not struck with awe
at the newcomcrs-by no means Unless
the white men could prove superiority
their possession OF it would not be adj
mitted. AS the author expresses the
black mans thought: why should he
scrape and bow To persons with no more
fingers and toes than he has himself?
And the feeling of racial snobbery he
finds wherever he goes, for here" he
says. we discover the black sons Oh
Adam to be such born Pharisees that
each African tribe thinks its neighbor
only a coarse gentle mob. Tit for tat,
right across Africa. and thence right
round the globe. these taunt names are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
MAILING IN THE HAREM.

In the distant land where the NILSSON.
airy builds his house. in tne country ruisa
over by King Mushidi, there is much Wo's
for the cody man 20 do. On July cay
he writes: More executions OF women
which means more putrefytng skulls ane
clouds Of bluebottle flies. Skulls heape'
on long rustic tables, skulls hanging upoa
trees like hat pegs, skulls with yaTf
ing mouths that would not shut even u
death. This Bmebeard business. refnsn'
Der, means hard detective work. and Wv
Emperor spends sleepless nights ra'aiH
his own harems. Five hundred land
fractiom wives and not a paddock 10 ns
land"
The suffragette, too. is abroad In Kins
Mushidrs land. At Munema court GOV
sip brought 10 the ears OF the mission
airy news of an unusual item IN 'n'
hymenial fold OF his royal highne'e
This woman-no slattern she!-dared I"
preach in a dark. limiting way" Wr''e.
the narrator, the far-off dream u
woman's rights. but King Bluebeard ~
wind OF IL through her rival Win ~
grettable vulgarity Mushidi called ln'
propaganda a goat for such sip
speech. Yea. my lord Mrs. Ama10'
pouted, even the goats are model mar
riage. for the female has as good p'A
of horns as the Billy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
FEsTooNED THOUGHTS.

Three hours later he came 10 me
again, and gave me his own translation
his own. mind you. And what do you
think ii was? Listen: land with SLOW
delicious cadence he poured out the black
lads melody.
1.-The stars are the lights He has left
burning along the dark road that leads
up to His city
And there is your Shakespearian blank
verse" cried Mr.. Crawford with a wave
of his arm. "Oh, you blessed beggars a
la Fifth avenue. you and your eooped up,
watertight compartments The imagina-
ton is all gone out OF you; there is no
change; II is all the same from London
TO Paris, from Paris over into the Latins
the same hobble skirt, the same little tin
gods.
"And from San Francisco to New York
II is all the same-the same Anglo-Saxon.
the same ideas. All along the line the
people shake the same old chestnut tree
and down come the chestnuts. tumbling
about their heads.
You snatch them and rush on. You
are living too fast. 1t is all hurry-hurry
hurry. You take life with a zip. If
you bolt your food you upset the CASTRO
nomical apparatus. and then you have
Indigestion. Your nation is betting its
life, and sooner or later 1t is in for ma
tional indigestion.
This silly thing overhead" an
upward, open-hand gesture toward a
cluster Of incandescent globes-"you shut
yourself in and then you try to bring in
the light. The native says. You are max
ing an enemy of God
1.-The glorious imagery of your thought
you do not put II down when you write.
The word lies there"-and he rested the
back Of his outstretched hand on the
4lh'o across which he leaned-"but Il is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
Dan Crawford, F. R. C. S. and Missionary
Tells How He Spent Twenty-Five Years
in Bunowiing Under the Skin Of
African Savages in Their
Native Haunts.

the more the scales OF prejudice fall from
your eyes, and you begin to see her strik.
ing resemblance TO some English lady
you have known"
In Lubaland he met just such another
grandmother who had been cook for the
tribal chief and thereafter forevermors
regarded herself as the chief cook Of all
cooks. Boiled dogs were her specially,
she said, but when the writer's seryan.
boy told her his master ate eggs, which
could be cooked in jiffy by breaking the
shell, she hustled away TO get some al
once. Nor does she forget that the shells
must be broken. I'm best cocksure man.
ner she now gets a stout stick, smashes
it up shell and yolk together, the result.
ant omelette being studded all over with
Jagged shells. sticking out like carpet
tacks."
In the Lufira Valley Mr.. Crawford
came upon a whole town in the teroS
of a war with monkeys, big yellow fel'
lows, who stand up TO man and fight
him." They swarm down on the corn.
fields at every harvest time, and It II an
annual audlf TOT tNe UdllFtS u ldHy dhu
beat them off. "Tithing the corn they
call IT. The fight has human touches on
both sides. when a negro wounds bis
monkey with an arrow says the author,
Tin a jiffy the army surgeon OF he
quadrupeds whips up the WOUNDED
monkey. splits vigorously over the spot
tears off a morsel of bark from tree
and rubs in the resultant medicine, spit
ting and rubbing again and again fora
cure"
Again and again has he enjoyed feast
on monkey during the time OF famine.
dozens of them, as he says. soaked N
banana vinegar Nevertheless he goes
on. "a long goodby to monkey stew
Never no more. The last | shot got MS
bullet in the breast; but, standing bon
upright. he tragically put his hand on
the red, oozing blood and three times
thrilled me by pointing Indignantly at hh
wounds. Like a X. c. for the prosecu'
ton, 'j'accuse,' these three mute but e.o-
quent appeals to his wounds stabbed NJ
with remorse."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12

chauffeurs the musicians, the shooting
range men, the try-your-skill confrater-
nifty OF dozen kinds, the men and boys
who rearrange the crockery of the crazy
kitchens. the sellers of drinks, the bath
house men. the freaks. the attendants AT
specially shows. the men who start you
down the switchbacks and launch you OH
your trip through the underground rlVer'
the pedlers Of "A hundred-and-ohe se"-
gaws. the cabaret entertainers the Try
your weight men. the merry-go-rouhd ~
tendants-the category Is endless. Most
OF them are married and have their wives
and children living nearby And week
or two OF mid-September will see tho
utter disintegration of this army OF thir-
teen thousand human beings tearing loose
from their roots and drifting on to new
fields Of endeavor-some to Brooklyn
some TO Africa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
RADICAL TOWN PLANNING.

To get a dark and tangled mass OF "
lapidated huts. swarming at every crew.
with blacks. cleared out of the way a's
a long. straight street bordered py w.
or three room huts with plenty OF wv
between was the problem successfully
piled to more than one native town,
whole tribe took up the idea Win
traordinary enthusiasm. and WIZ
more ado burned their long time Aa
tations to the ground in one mons,
blaze. and at once set about reoui',
them according to the clean and o'u'''
plan Of the missionary.
Elephants and lions that had
shot stroll through the pages OF =
ing Black" in a casual way, and ha'.
glory descends on the two women
slew crocodile with penknives anu AZ,
ether lone widow who brought hHs
lion to his death by a timely appH''S
of scalding water. -
Spending a night perched atop III
hut with flood waters swirling al :.
says Mr.. Crawford, was about the va
evenings entertainment he ever SUM
Neither did he enjoy the wild night - :.
he took refuge from a sudden deluse -
deserted hut, and then. when ~
ing fash of lightning came. foon. -
escape cut off by serpent rearing "a
across the doorway. He came oal ''Ny soa
the side of the house-made ne" '.,rf
on the spot. in fact. and without
for the rain to slacken. "a
And when are you going paeA -.
all?" asked the reporter OF MI y"
ford. as he said goodby.
I'm on my way now" said me-