The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-02-10
CAPITAL, 100000.
Its Products and Trade; Its Relations to
Agriculture; It's Interests, Pol.
icy. Character, and Claims
10 Public Confidence.

Southern and Middle States
: It will be admitted that with the crude ele-
ments Of fertility afforded by Nature, it is
within the. scope Of human ability, aided by
capital enterprise and science, to furnish con-
cea'trated commercial fertilizer Of real creel
lence.
1t is Of the highest Importance that such
fertilizer should be furnished at the lo,rtst
possible cost, in order that the outlay required
may not preclude its gene, al and liberal appli-
cation. 1t is also necessary to the general use
Of such an article, that the character, responsi.
6iisty and facilities Of tho producers should be
such as to afford reasonable guarantee that
the fertilizer brought into market may be
relied upon for present and continued ercsl
kcaace.
It is truo 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 it's price be too high to justify
its liberal use. and though experience teaches
them its defects which are manifest in its
tendency to produce excessive growth without
corresponding yield; in its tendency to ex-
haustion; in its injurious effects in time Of
severe drought &c.. all Of which result from
tho incorporation Of it's elements.
This want of confidence is not unnatural,
and arises from two principal causes First
Fertilizers have been placed upon the markets
and commended to farmers, which, either from
ignorance or the inability of the producers, or
from less excusable causes, have proved from
the first or aftcr awhile of little Or no value
to the serious loss Of the consumer both of
time and money.
Secondly-Disastrous seasons occur, in which
crops fail from the intervention of natural
causes, in which event the consumer is pre-
disposed to ascrbe the failure in part at least
to- the particular fertilizer used, however ex-
cellent it may have been. even though his
neighbor realize as great failure from Peru
Wan Guano. The though! is suggested that
If Peruvian Guano had been used, the failure
would not at least have been so great; hence
fertilizer possessing the highest value may be,
and often is hastily :o:i s.nnea. and its use
retarded, to ,hs ie:rjAusnt :t t3ls agricultural
public.
There IS 30 power i'll 5eyuri&D Guauo or any
other fertilizer 10 perform its fuDcti ons if con.
travened by natural cnuhaf, elne rich bottom
lands would neye, iail TO yield crop, when j,
is a known fact they 90 fall ss fraoueotly as
fertilized lands.
D., A beneiicent Providence has aggregated the
crude elements Of fertility in exhaustless guam.
titles all ovcr the world--upon islands Of the
son, and in the sea itself and elsewhere.
Nature. however, does not yield her treasures
without an equivalent. Coal is found en-.
beddcd in mountains; the precious metals are
hold bound in the quartz rock, and are adapt
cd 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 arc not in condition for practical utility,
but modern science has developed methods By
which they arc capable Of the highest utility
to the most important Of all interests. Hence
while nature furnishes the crude material, md
science tho method, still capital skill enterzri,s
and labor ore required to adapt them to tie
purposes designed by Nature,