Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-09-01
TIL E
GUANO co.
CAPITAL 100000.
Its Products and Trade; It's Relations to
Agriculture; Its Interests, Pol
icy, Character, and Claims
to Public Confidence.

It is an admitted fact that concentrated CONNER
cial 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 ercel,ence
1t is Of the highest importance that such Fertili
yer should be furnished at the oaces possible COST in
order that the outlay required may not preclude its
general and liberal application. 1t is also necessary to
the general use of such an article that the character
responsibility and facilities of the producers should be
such as to afford a 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 Guano by a
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 produce excessive growth without cor
responding yield; in its tendency to exhaustion; in
all of which result from the incorporation of its
elements.
This want of confidence is not unnatural and
arises from two principal causes: Frst-Fertilizers
have been placed upon the markets and commended
to farmers, which, either from ignorance the ina,
bty of the producers, from less excusable causes
have proved from the first after awhile Of little
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 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 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
fail to yield crop, when it is known fact they do
fail as frequently as fortified lands.
A benefcent Providence has aggregated the crude
eteHtS JoTttty III eAHauSbicSS quaHtltleS Ill over
the world-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 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 not in condition for
practical utility but modern science has developed
methods by which they 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 ssU enterprise and
labor are 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 Guano is the product of
the #.ree lis
PACIFIC GUANo COMPANY.
1t has been extensively used for the culture of all
crops, from New Jersey to Alabama, with results
trey satisfactory the instances of failure, in conse