Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-08-20
THE
GUANO co.
CAPITAL 100000.
IFS Products and Trade; It's Relations to
Agriculture; lis Interests, Pol
icy, Character, and Claims
TO Public Confidence.

1t is an admitted fact that a 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 ercelence
1t is of the highest importance that such Fertili-
ger should be furnished at the o,res possible cost in
order that the outlay required may not preclude its
general and liberal GpPlcaon 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 reasonable guarantee that the
Fertilizer brought into market may be relied upon
for present and continued ercelence.
1t is true that many farmers are deferred from the
use of Fertilizers, other than Peruvian Guano hy 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 lis
tendency 70 produce excessive growth without cor
responding yield; in its tendency to eXhaustion in
its injurious effects in time of severe drought &c,
all Of which result from the incorporation Of its
elements.
This want of confidence is not unnatural and
arises from two principal causes; Firs-Fertilizcrs
have been placed upon the markets and commended
to farmers which either from ignorance the ina
blty Of the producers or from less excusable causes
have proved from the first after awhile of little or
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time and money.
Secondly-DiSastrouss seasons occur, in which crops
fail from the Intervention of natural causes in which
event the consumer is predispoScd 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 Fertilizer
possessing the highest value, may be- and often is,
hastily condemned and its use retarded, to the detr
ment Of the agricultural public
There is no power in Peruvian Guano or any other
Fertilizer to perform its functions if contmyened by
natural causes, else rich bottom lands would never
fail to yield a crop when it is known fact they do
fail as frequently as fortified lands.
4 benefcent Providence has aggregated the crude
clements Of fertility in eXhaustlcss quantities all over
the world-upon islands of the sea, and in tie 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 Lt52r enterprise and capital So also these
deposits in their natural state are not in condition for
practical utility, but modern science has developed
methods 10y which they are capable Of the highest
utility to the most important fall interests. Hence
while nature furnishes the crude material, and
science the me.ioa, still c1pi;al Skill enterprise AMI
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 Soajl P1efe GaaH0, is the product Of
the
PACIFIC GUANo COMPANY.
It has been extensively used for the culture Of all
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