Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-03-04
From the Constituttonalist.
The Augusta Feriilizing Company

The Augusta Feriilizing Company.
The necessity of enriching the soil was
never greater than at present. So poten'
tiaI hiss Been this requirement that mill
ions of collars were expended, last sea
son, for various kinds of manure. Nesr-
ly every dollar of this money went North.
ward and, we are sorry to say, it did
not secuee. in all cases, aproGtable return
for such very hard cash. We should
Judge, from numerous complaints, that
many of the manipulated manurcs were
gross impositions. The desire to grow
rich suddenly is, probably, as conspicu.
GUS in this line of. business as in nearly
all others, and so, number of con6ding
planters had to pay dearly for credulity.
Under such circumstances, we are pleas
ed to learn that Company has been
formed in Augusta to supply tine agricul-
tural community with genuine fertili-
ger, and one, too, within the reach of all.
Tae well.known integrity of the gentle.
men engaged in this enterprise, and the
materials within their grasp, warrant the
assumption that the article offered to the
public is what it represents to be. The
-nitre-beds of the Confederacy have been
purchased and become the bases of an
extensive development. Beside these rich
deposits, valuable collections of peat have
been discovered in the immediate vicini-
ty, and appropriated and worked with
success. In the process of manufacture,
true Southern hospitality is practiced.
There are no secrets and no mysteries.
All interested ale invited to an investi-
CATION, and the Company is determined
to deserve everything it wins in the way
of encomium or trade.
To enable the planter to restore to the
soil that which has been extracted from
it by small grain, cotton, corn, vegeta-
bles, &C., the Company, with an enthusi.
as:ic ard commendable diligence, has its
agents scattered broadcast, engaged in
ransackins the city and county for all the
elements which enter into the compost
ton of plants. The refuse of the city is
carefully removed and premiums offered
to all for articles, which, hitherto consid-
cred nuisances, are made immensely val
liable when brought under the dominion
of science. A two-fold benefit is thus
produced. The city is rendered healthy
by the scrupulous removal Of all noxious
matter; and the soil is enriched by those
very materials which numbered the earth
and were an offense to all. A movement
ofthis kind is one in the rig. direction.
1t is bold and honorable attempt to en-.
courage Southern independence and an
example for other branches of industry in
the important item Of keeping the money
of our people at home.
TIE manures produced by the Angus
ia Fertilizing Company have ceased to
be experiments. They are now OF es,
tablished reputation, and those who were
so fortunate as to try them. during last
year, have reaped substantial har-
vest.
The chemist of this company is Gene
raj Rains, whose fame is not limited to
any narrow area, but is familiar to the
Old as we'll as to the New World. With
such directing genius, in conjunction
with such an honorable company, there is
no such word as fail. All the requisites
of success have been combined, and we
feel convinced that the progress of the
enterprise will be commensurate with its
undoubted excellence.
The attention of all concerned in agri-
culture, who read these lines, is directed
to the subjoined remarks, which proceed
from one whose clear understanding, crit
ical research and long experience entitle
him to hearing. Gen. NJ. c. M. Ham,
mond thus writes Of the Augusta Fer.
tilizing Company and the result of its la.
bors:
"a high cultivation, on Tess land, ,oith more
manure, is the great object Of modern t.llage."
If this remark be true in a general
sense, it is especially applicable to the
South, where capital is greatly reduced
and labor impaired and uncertain where
large plantations and annual clearings to
supersede the worn or exhausted lands
are no longer practicable, and where
the utmost production from present open
fields has become necessary for subsist.
ence.
The prime question is, where to pro-
cure the least costly and most effective
fertilizer Heretofore, we have import.
cd, at high prices, many kinds Of manures
Peruvian and other guanos, phosphates
and other saline compounds, raw and dis.
solved bones, etc. The larger portions Of
these have been specifics and applicable
properly to soils containing all the other
ingredients, and requiring only these COM
paratiyely few of the many elements de.
manded for the perfect growth Of plants.
These requirements of the plants have
been left generally to conjecture-some.
times have been discovered by often re.
peated experiments, and, only on rare oc-
casions, by analysing the soils.
But the deficiencies cannot be ascer.
tanned every where. It is utterly impos.
sible, from want of skill and means, to
obtain analyses of every ones fields or
farm and, without these, the selection of
special'fertilizers or specifes-few CON-
bining more than five or six of the twelve
or fifteen substances essential for vigor-
Gus vegetation--is mainly guess work.
Even the mixture of several of these, per-
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