Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30


The land was DID, had much manured and near
" exhausted nevertheless cotton grew Oft spenddy ana
continued to do we'll until after the heavy rains IN july %hen
it began to stop growth Such effects are g
b;ob mannrnp on thin lands calculated early July upon
at least 1000 pounds seed cotton to the acre. Ihe y M
500 pounds Where 1000 pounds Fertilizer were aPp @ ne
land was fresh and in good heart, ana 1he yeo was '
On another portion of my farm Iappted the Fertilizer s2o
pounds to the acre. where aPp@eq @ as year uJ r the
increase $50 fod); through this lett some u5l 4J
rows The difference between the rows cou9 hog pe
From the above experiments and their results
conclusions which may prove of interest to others
First That Peruvian Guano which has been considered te
standard for comparison all commercial fertilizers as 10
produce much cotton, as 1ertlzer clannS w oo ~
ammonia at al-the Etiwan No. l.
second That neither Peruvian the unmixed
nbae Ewan l. produce we'll combination OF the I"o
p commercial fertilizer containing both Supephosphate
and Ammonia like the CaroRa Fertilizer wnch mas
better results for than any other commercial
Third That commercial fertilizers general or special man
ures NAV vet be greatly improved to meet the wants
any crop upon ali soils For instance by the combination Oh
Peruvian Guano Etwan No. Potash and Soda not only was
the crop considerably other fertilizers but what
is more important STILL there rust where TINS
ton was applied which on two separate nela ass s
onar and where had than other poroh
the farm These maintained their greeness both Dolls anu
limbs till FROST while the surrounding cotton was oeao anu
black months before do not that the
of the ingredients what analysis or urtner
NAV decide to be BEST do believe would be universally
applicable SOME such combination, perhaps improved o
the addition of Suphae of Magnesa would prove manure
for the cotton plant on soils kind OF special manure
Agricultural Chemistry tells that potash ana magnesa are
found in sufficient quantity in clay Soils for the proper develop
ment of plants especially the cotton plant This may De tue
but practically they available Any soil OF the sest
red Clay may be permanently improved as know by the
application of ashes where commercial fertlzers ana ordinary
eomposts were of but poor, temporary advantage.
Fourth That the Charleston Fossil pre-
pared are more equal the Raw Bone
as insanced in the yield from the Carolina fertlzer ana
Baugh Raw Bone which conceded to be the
best and most honestly made up OF Its class
Fifth That Guano the BEST or most prohtaoe
phate nstanced in the greater OF
and Etwap No. all the commercial the source
of whose ammonia generally fish meat scrap ADMIT
this m owing to the presence OF other valuable sas IN e
Peruvian
Sixth That the amount of soluble phosphate in
makes great difference in it's value Instance the different
Yields of tiwan No. Pacific Acid Phosphate and Comp and
the Palmetto Acid Phosphae neither of which LATTER pre-
sumo claim near so high per centage In other words
believe that 100 b containing Is per cent of soluble phos
phate will produce about the results at any rate he nr
year. 200 lbs of manure containing only ~ 10 10 per cent
Seventh possibly fine ground phophates might prove
emuneratve to the planter presume acid used
in the manipulation of Wilcox Gibbs Manipulated ye po
duces as good results Baugh Raw Bone
The main source of its phosphate he Wilcox Gbb must
be the finely divided Phoenix Guano
Eighth That poor soils moderate application Oh com
merca manures will prove most remunerave That better
soils may be more highly manured with profitable results
Ninth That some soils soon get sucency of phosphates
and that others require much more TO saurae e
Tenth That on some soils good results obtained for two
wears from application Of superphosphates had an IN
crease OF lOO per cent. this year iol "PPio"Oo " W ~
lima last year. ,,.
Eleventh That very poor soils may be rapidly brought
to fair producveness by the use OF supephohates alone
Twelfth That subsong barely pays such years as this has
proved-so much rain.
Meteorological conditions have influenced all the results
considerably We had no rain sufficient bring up
or cotton from 10th April 9th May consequently the stand
of all late planted imperfect From the last date to
it was almost impossible to plough the hills for bog
this Journal says Il t ths u
date last YEAR 3D. 3d. 4tb 9Th and 9th Juy-Cotton in full
bloom but impossible to plough account of wet Indeed
this the time hadtho rains were ALMOST deuges
it's about the August the most highly
manfred spots and extended quito rapidly
Marion s. c.. December 5, 1870 ED. B. SMITH, W. u.
FERrILIzERs-A LETTER TO DIR. EDWARD B. SMITH.
[Ertract from Ms Rural CarOinian
Er1wAN WORKS. CHARLESTON, February e. 1871