The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-02-06
HOMEMADE FERTILIZERS
AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISEIN
AUGURATED IN COLUMBIA.

linas.
Animportapt.branch of home industry
has just hoen established at Columbia,
s, c., under the name CT the Columbia
Phosphate Company. The officers are
as follows: President-W. A. Clark
Vice President-J. Q. Haskell, SecIe-
tary and Treasurer-Wilie Jones, Su-
perintendent-T. G. Robertson, Direc-
tors--W. A. Clark, James Woodrow, j..
q. Haskell, G. l.. Baker.
The company has just issued circu-
lar setting fourth It's purposes md its
facilities. Itsays: Before purchasing
YOUR fertilizers for another season we
desire to call your attention to the
goods we will put upon the market for
the crop of 1890, and trust that you
will give them full trial, satisfied not
only that the result obtained from this
our first years production will fully
realize your expectation, but that
succeeding years will confirm them. As
this is our first season, we have II"
Testimony TO offer, but have this to
saw. 1.-The best is always the cheap
est" and with this as our motto, have
erected in the city Of Columbia, at the
very head Of river navigation, Fertili-
Zer Works that, for thorough equip
menti very respect. stand unrival-
ed ne United States, and SO shall
PRODUCTS be uneXCelled.
Our works cover four acres, and are
situated at the interseCti III of the Rich
mond & Danville and the Atlautic
Coast Line, and only 1905 yards from
CRANKY. the head Of river navigation,
with which point it will be connected
bv track, now being laid. The Allan
llu Coast ine gives Us direct Gonnec-
ton with the ports Of Norfolk, Will
minpton. and Charleston, from any Of
which we receive our sulphur direct
from Sicily. The r Il ID. gives us an
outlet 10 the entire Piedmont section
ufom State, and THE Old Retlablo'
(the Couearce and Santee) connects us
directly With the phosphate beds, and
delivers the crude rock to us at a
freight rate that parulyzea the great
est of traffic managers and reiegates
to innocuous desuetuae the Inter-
State Railroad Laws.
Surrounded with such freight IA ILL
ties, we ask protection from none, and
boldly assert TIM. We Will deliver our
Fertilizers nt any point IN the state,
duplicating prices Ct amy standard
goods on the market
1t may not be known, but it is fact,
that an iron steamboat OF 2oO tons ca
Dacity has made weekly trips bel wecn
CRANKY and Charleston siuce last
March, without missing once. 1t is Il
tact, that our Oil Mills i:nve sold the
planters of Pee Dec 500 tons meal, and
IL C,,, trlE
all to be delivered by steamer; and
that an extra boat will be put on the
river this month to meet the increased
traffic. But the fact Of all facts il, that
we offer the trade of the Pee Dee and
the San,ee, of the mountain and
the seaboard, Il Fertilizer cXcclled by
none, and at Charleston prices.
The names we have selected for
our goods are "Granby Ammonia
ted Fertilizer" "Granby Acid Phos
phate
Our ammoniated goods will contain
full q per cent of Ammonia, and our
Acid Phosphate 10 per cent OF nvaila-
bic phosphoric acid. This will be- our
minimum guarantee, and should the
trade desire the cheap, and Il per
cent ammOniated goods being now SO
largely put upon the market, tney will
be made only at their risk and under
their brand. We intend that in the
years to come "Grunby Fertilizer" shall
be IL household word III the South,
maintained to the highest standard
and selling on its own merit.
VALUE OF FERTILIZERS.
Tue experiments OF Liebig and other
agricultural chemists established the
Importance of applying artiicially Am
monia, Phosphoric Aid, and Potash
TO the growing plant. The experience
Of the successful farmer has demon
strated the absolute necessity OF IL free
and intellir, Mt use Of these ingredients,
and to obtain them science, art and
commerce have been employed on
the most extensive scale, and millions
of dollars invested in tho production of
commercial fertilizers.
NITROGEN.
Formerly the guano Of Peru supplied
this element in large quantities, but
since the exhaustion Of those deposits
the supply has been largely from dry
blood, fish scraps, nitrate Of soda, and
cotton seed meal.
POTASH.
This article ia almost altogether OBJ
tanned from the German mines, either
as kainit or Muriatc of Potash
PHOsPHORlC ACID.
This ingredient is found in na,ure,
both as is soluble Phosphate of Lime
and Phosphate OF Aluminu, but NJ
such is useless as fertilizer, being in
soluble in water, and not available Ms
plant ft cd. TO make it available as
plant food has been the work of the
scientists, and tho immens, capital en-
pIOyed in this art attests their success,
The largest deposit Of ins0luble Phos-
phate of Lime thatwe know of exists
in our own State, and is known AS
Phosphate Rock, evidently tho re-
mains and deposits of sea animals and
birds. In its crude state it is insoluble
but when ground and treated with
Suiphuric Acid it becomes soluble, and
is known In commerce as Acidu iated
Rock, or Dissolved Bone, and as such
becomes The basis of all commercial
fertilizers. To make the rock soluble
we must have Sulphuric Acid. This
was at first imported into Northern
DOrtc the rock ahiDno1 No,,J, ~. e.