The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1870-11-03

HIS uelSuuOIS have uOuluCu Ii'O
above formula, and are expert
menting with the following:
No. !. Stable manure. 30 bush.
No. = Common salt. bush.
No. 8. Nitrate of Soda. lbs.
No. 4. Sulphate of Ammonia. go lbs.
No. 5. Ground bone. barrel
No 6. Land Plaster. barrel
No. 7. Ashes s.---....-...m......1 barrel
A single field of cotton falling
under our observation upon which
this second formula was used, COM
pared favorably at the time of+our
visit with crops stimulated with
the other we'll known guanos. The
cost per ton of the first formula is
$l5-that of the second $22.5O-
the difference in price being owing
in some measure, probably to the
different method of obtaining the
necessary chemicals; Messrs. Jer-
nigan and Tappan getting theirs
direct from New York-the others
ordering theirs through two or
three intermediate agents.
1t is the opinion of your COM
mittee that the very high price de-
manded and paid for all Of the
standard fertilizers in general use,
is drain upon the labor of the
farmer, heretofore only sustained
by the extraordinary high rollirg
price of cotton, and which must
prove utterly ruinous in the future
10 him if tile cotton market should,
as anticipated, suffer severe and
uniform decline.
This committee has not now at
hand the means of ascertaining
the profits or dividends of the diff:
ferent guano companies through
out the country, but they are
known generally to be large, and
in many cases enormous, while
many of their compounds have
been proved to be comparatively
worthless. This increasing mania
for high sounding, high priced,
and often worthless fertilizers,
must be checked throughout the
South, or the farmers must make
up their minds at once to sell them
selves and their lands to the COM
mission merchants and guano men,
and labor in their interests alone.
But cannot every intelligent
farmer organize a guano company
IN his farm-he and his laborers Ia
king all the stock? We think this
feasible. There is no plantation
in the county that does not afford
ample and the richest material to
be used as basis. The chemicals
necessary to utilize its materials
are well known and to be obtained
cheapIy and in abundance. The
enterprise and energy of a few
practical planters in this and an
adjoining county have proved by
experiments falling under the OBJ
servation Of your committe, that as
good or better corn or cotton can
be made by the use of material so
bountitully spread about our very
doors, as may be yielded by any
of the nostrums sold to Us at such
extravagant prices by men who
feel generally an interest only in
stock dividends.
Your committee submit for your
inspection samples of the fertilizer
made by the gentleman using it.
We are assured that from two to
three tons can be manufactured
per day by two competent hands,
and you will perceive that the mix
ture is thoroughly compounded as
friable, and as easily applied as
any of the most popular fertilizers
used. Your committee therefore
recommend to the members ofthis
club, that they carefully and expel-
mentally manufacture and Use this
Bryant Compound upon their crops
of all kinds. They disavow any
purpose in this report save that
falling strictly within the purvlew
of their appointment, viz: that of
placing before our members
figures and data respecting much
needed economy in farming, fur
nished US by altogether reliable
gentlemen, and facts coming direct
" under our own personal OBJ
servation. 1t is understood to be
the purpose of the Club to further
investigate the utility of this fer
tilizer, by sending back this or
another committee to visit and
inspect the cropi where it is used.
at some time later in the season,
when the crops and hnal results
are more matured.
We will await with interest the
report of this second committee.
We seek light and information up
on a subject Of overshadowlng
Importance to us-not merely rs
theorists or as chemists, nor yet as