Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-08-13


have been so great; hence fertilizer possess
ing the highest value may be, and often is, has
tily condemned, and its use retarded, to the
detriment of the agricultural public. There is
no power in Peruvian Guano or any other fer
tilizer to perform its functions if contravened
by natural causes, else rich bottom lands would
never fail to yield a cop, when it is a known
fact they do fail as frequently as fertilzed lands.
A bene6cent Providence has aggregated the
cruee elements oftertilty in exhaustless quanti-
and in the sea itself and elsewhere. Nature,
however, does not yield her treasures without
an equivalent. Coal is found embedded in
mountains the precious metals are held bound
in the quartz rock, and are adapted to the uses
for which nature designed them, only at the
cost of labor, enterprise and capital. So also
these deposits in their natural state are not in
condition for practical utility, but modern SCI
ence has developed methods by which they are
capable of the highest utility to the most i'm
portant of all interests. Hence, while nature
furnishes the crude material, and science the
method, still there is required capital, skill, en-
terprize and labor.
The fertilizer introduced by US in 1865, under
the trade mark of Soluble Pacific Guamo, is the
product of the
PACIFIC GUANo COMPANY.
1t has been extensively used for the culture
OF all crops from New Jersey to Alabama, with
results entirely satisfactory with no great num-
Der OF exceptional cases in consequence of un-
propitious seasons, than have resulted from the
use of Peruvian Guano. If the disinterested
testimony of farmers is an evidence of truth,
and we are sure it is, then it is true that results
from this guano, like quantities per acre, have
been fully equal to those from Peruvian Guano,
and IN not few instances, superior on the first
crop, while on grass and clover crops following,
it has manifested an effect unknown to Peru
Wan, and it must be noted that the cost of this
guano is so much less, that 800 lbs. may be ap-
piled per acre at little or no greater cost than
zoo lbs. OF Peruvian Guano can be applied.
In view of the Importance of this trade, and
the just demand on the part of consumers for
assurances, first, as to the ability of the Pacific
Guano Company to bring into market con-
centrated fertilizer of the highest excellence, at
the lowest cost to the farmer and secondly, as
to the claims of the Company to the fullest pub
lie confidence, we propose first to show aohat
their facilities are; and secondly to show upon
what grounds they lay claim to full public con-
fdence in their products.
Firs-The Pacific Guano Company is the re-
suit of private association of few Of the larg-
est shipping merchants engaged in the Califor-
MIA trade in the United States, the primary OBJ
ject being to furnish return freights for their
ships from the Pacific. This private associa-
ton was subsequently organized into a stock
Company with an actual cash capital invested
and at command of 81, ZOO, 900, and is unques-
tionably the strongest company in the country
engaged in this important trade. Its stock
holders are limited to but few in number, not
exceeding fifteen, embracing some of the most
respectable and wealthiest merchants, all of
whom are actively engaged in business enter
prises of trade and commerce.
The large capital of the company is the ag-
gregation of surplus means, by reason of which
they are enabled to accomplish results unat-
tainable by private enterprise. Hence, the
Company are the sole owners of the extensive
deposites from whence they draw supplies of
natural phosphate of lime, and the other eie-
ments which enter into the composition of their
fertilizer, therefore, with these facilities they
procure supplies at lowest cash cost of produc-
ton, and do not pay profits and commissions
to importers or intermediate parties.