The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21

years he can show an equal number of
acres which have been abandoned and
now has grown up in weeds, brush and
| trees. He continues that such prog
ress can get us nowhere and the RENE
dy must come at once and he says we
are sick and tired of hot air, and when
we have nothing else to offer had best
keep quiet for the good Of the COM
munity.
You said it, and in prescribing, you
should take the biggest dose, and con-
| tinue taking it, for I know of nothing
more detrimental to the entire county
and Pensacola than such diabolical,
unheard Of falsehoods that you have
stated in your article. and no honest,
right thinking man would be guilty OF
such false and misleading statements,
but, like Bobby Burns, the Scotch poet
has said: Some books are lies from
end to end and some great lies were
never penned, even ministers have
been kenned in holy rapture to tell a
rowing lee and nail it with the scrip
ture; but this am going to tell is
just as true as the devil in hell and
Dublin city"
am very much inclined to believe,
like Bobby Burns described, he worked
himself up to. the highest pitch in con-
demning Escambia county farming and
soil and he candid1y believed that all
the false statements he made We're
facts. have lived in this by the good
Lord blessed Esca mbia county 56 years
before this Solomon ever came here
Sorry that such mistake was made:
that he was dropped here by the "a
vens instead of leaving him where he
came from. -
Another point this Solomon made, he
said that any farming section that
cannot raise at least some kind of good
clover is certainly laboring under a
disadvantage. l would advise this
know-all to go out to Major Crank's
farm; he will see fields of clover and
fields of the finest forage crops: the
kudzu, the strongest and best for ami
mails. from a goat to cow. The writer
has also raised as fine clover in Es-
Gambia county as is grown anywhere
in the United States; also the velvet
bean and COW peas. Consistency, thou
art a jewell"
After he condemned Escambia eoun-
ty and West Florida, then he advised
us, all real estate men, farmers, nut
and fruit growers and dairy men, for
all to plant this wonderful king of all
clovers, the annual white sweet clover,
described by Prof. Hughes of Alabama.
Then he advises us, and says: Let us
inform ourselves in every possible way
about this wonderful king of all Glow
nrG fr1t, he h :.
that the future of West Florida de-
Ponds upon how earnestly we try to
make this a real clover country All
clovers are legumes. and the king of
all clovers is the kudzu, and while all
the legumes are soil builders, the kud-
zu stands 100 per cent ahead of all
others, as the long roots contain a
greater per cent of bacteria in which
the soil is inoculated; also it absorbs
the nitrogen through its leaves and
takes up the potash and sulphuric acid
BY its long roots from the subsoil
which makes any soil planted in kudzu
a rich soil, and which will grow any
crop requiring good ground.
In conclusion, will tell this Solomon
that ] am not a real estate man and
have none for sale. but I am thor
oughly familiar with farming and fruit
raising, not from hearsay, but from
personal experience. and in nv Sc
years Of experience In West Florida
and Escambia county and Pensacola
in particular. have never read such
torade OF abuse of wholesale con-
domination and false statements about
West Florida. and E7scambia county in
particular as was made in the evening
paper OF Wednesday by this know-all.