The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-12-30
TIL E
GUAN0 co.
CAPITAL s1,OOO,OO
Its Products and Trade; Its Relations to
Agriculture; Its Interests, Pol
icy, Character, and Claims
to Public Confidence.

1t is an admitted fact that concentrated CONNER
cal Fertilizer, of real excellence, is an essential
adjunct to successful farming in the Southern and
Middle States
1t will be admitted, that with the crude elements
of fertility afforded by Nature it is within the scope
of human ability, aided by capital, enterprise and
science, to furnish concentrated commercial Fertilizer
Of real excellence.
1t is of the highest Importance that such Fertii-
should be furnished ct the loest possible COST in
order that the outlay required may not preclude its
general and liberal application 1t is also necessary to
the general of such an article that the character
responsibility 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 excellence.
1t is true that many farmers deferred from the
of Fertilizers, other than Peruvian Guane, by
want OF confidence in their continued reliability,
though convinced of their present value They
adhere to Peruvian Guano, though its price be too
high to justify its liberal use, and though experience
teaches them it's defects, which are manifest in its
tendency 70 produce excessive growth without COR
responding yield in its tendency to exhaustion; in
its injurious effects in time of drought, &C..
all of which result from the incorporation of it's
elements.
This want of confidence is not unnatural and
arises from two principal causes FirstFertilizers
have been placed upon the markets and commended
to farmers, which, either from ignorance the ina
bty Of the producers or from less excusable causes
have proved from the first or after awhile of little or
value to the serious loss of the consumer both of
time and money.
Secondly-Disastrouss seasons occur, in which crops
fail from the Intervention of natural causes in which
event the consumer is predisposed to ascribe the
failure in part, at least to the particular Fertilizer
used, however excellent it may have been, even
though his neighbor realize as great failure from
Peruvian Guano. The thought is suggested that, if
Peruvian Guano had been used, the failure would
not at least have been so great; hence a Fertilizer
possessing the highest value may be, and often is,
hastily condemned and its retarded to the detri
ment of the agricultural public.
There is no power in Peruvian Guano or any other
Fertilizer to perform it's functions if contravened by
natural causes, else rich bottom lands would never
fail to yield crop, when it is known fact they do
fail as frequently as fertzed lands.
beneficent Providence has aggregated the crude
elements Of fertility in exhaustless quantities all over
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 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 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 method still capital skill, enterprise and
labor required to adapt them to the purposes de-
signed by Nature.
The Fertilizer introduced by us in 1865, under the
trade mark Of Soluble Pacific Gano, 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
trely satisfactory the instances of failure in conse-