The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-01-20
THE
PACIFIC GUANO CO.
CAPITAL. 100000.
It's Products and Trade; Its Relations to
Agriculture; lis Interests, Pol
Icy, Character, and Claims
to Public Confidence.

commercial fertilizer, Of real excellence, iB an
essential adjunct to successful farming in the
Southern and Middle States
1t will be admitted, that with tho crude elc-
ments Of fertility afforded by Nature, it is
within the scope Of human ability, aided by
capital, enterprise and science, to furnish con-
ce1'tratea commercial FERTILIZER Of real erccl-
kence
1t is Of Tho highest Importance that such a
fertilizer should be furnished at the lo,vest
possible cost, in order that the outlay required
may not preclude its gene, al and liberal oppA-
cation. 1t is also necessary to tho general use
Of such on article. that tho character, RESPONSE
bstty and facilities of the producers should be
such as to afford reasonable guarantee that
the fertilizer brought into market may be
relied upon for present and continued erccl-
la,ce
It is true that many farmers are deferred
from the use Of fertilizers other than Peruvian
Guano, by want Of confidence in their con-
tinued reliability, though convinced of their
present value. They adhere to Peruvian
Guano. though its price be too high to Justify
it's liberal uso, and though experience teaches
them ita defects, which are manifest in its
tendency to produce excessive growth without
corresponding yield; in its tendency to OK
haustion; in its injurious effects in time Of
severe drought, &C., all Of which result from
tho incorporation Of its clements
= This want of confidence is not unnatural;
and arises from two principal causes: First
Fertilizers have been placed upon tho markets
Il 1>l - e., ~, -
Ignorance or tho inability of the producers, or
from less c@cusable causes, have proved from
TIE first or after awhile Of little or no value
to the serious loss of The consumer, both of
time and money.
Sccondy Disastrous seasons occur, in which
crops fail from the intervention of natural
causes, in which event The consumer pre-
disposed to ascribe the failure in part at least
to the particular fertilizer uscd however ex-
collcnt it may have been, even though his
ncighbor realize as great u failure from Peru
Wan Guano.. The thought is suggested, that
If Peruvian Guano had bcon usod, the failure
would not at least have been so great hence
fertilizer possessing the highest value, may be-
and often is hastily condemned, and it's use
retarded. to the dctriment of the agricultural
public.
There is no power in Peruvian Guano or any
other fertilizer to perform its functions if con
travened by natural causes. else rich bottom
lands would nevor fail to yield crop, when it'll
is a known fact they do fail as frequently as
fertilized lands.
A bencfcent Providence has aggregated tho
crude elements Of fertility in exhaustless guam
titles all over tho word-upon islands of the
sea, and in the sea itself and elsewhere
Nature, however, does not yield her treasures
without an equivalent. Coal is found en-
bedded i'll mountains; the precious metals are
held bound in the quartz rock, and are adapt-
ed to the for which Nature designed
thcm, only al tho cost Of labor enterprise and
copital So also these deposits in their natural
state are not in condition for practical utility,
but modern science has developed methods by
which they are capable OF the highest utility
to the most important Of all interests. Hence
while nature furnishes The crude material. and
science the nctl.Od, still copital skill, enterprise
and la5or are required to adapt them to the
purposes designed by Nature.
The fertilizer introduced by us in 1865,