The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
New Bern a Distributing Point
for Virginia-CaroIina
Chemical Co.
Mr.. C. {. FoY, RESIDENT MANAGER
or the Southern Company, One Of the Leading
Forces in New Bern's Progress
and Enterprise.

The experience of the last few years
has clearly demonstrated the fact that
Southern cities cannot hope to obtain
either commercial prominence or materi-
i'll and lasting prosperity and wealth
through channels of mercantile trade
alone. 1t is upon the development Of
their manufacturing, industrial and
agricultural interests that they must
mainly rely for substantial growth and
financial stability. Within the last de-
cadc the intelligent attention of capital
lists and business men in all points of the
South has been turned to this subject,
with the result that the unlimited and
boundless resources of this great sec
ton of the country Will eventually be de
veloptd. 4 striking example Of TINS fav0'-
able condition of affairs is offered by the
Virginia Carolina Chemical Company, an
enterprise mammoth in its proportions
and unlimited as to its future possibill-
ties Chief among the industrial enter
prises of the South is the fertilizer in
duStry, and to this. as much or more
than to any one thing, does the South
owe its agricultural development I'm an
agricultural country like the South there
is no subject of greater Importance than
that pertaining to the productiveness of
given space at the least expense is what
all are aiming at, and it has been shown
beyond all question that the best way to
accomplish this is by. using IL fertilizer
which supplies to the soil the needed
elements Of plant food in a state to be at
once assmiated by the growing plant
1t will thus be seen that the modern fer
tilizer factory is as much a product of
the advanced nineteenth century civili-
cation as is the railroad, the telegraph,
the telephone and the thousands of other
useful things invented in these latter
DAYS. Slowly but surely the knowledge
has dawned upon the human mind that
every harvest, whether poor or generous,
takes from the soil certain portions of
its productive elements, and that If these
are not returned in some form, the lands
so cultivated produce less and less each
year until finally they are abandoned.
The Virginia-Chemical Company claims
with Justice its right to share i'll the gen
eral contribution to this new era of pro-
gress and prosperity. 1t is the largest
and most widely known of the fertilizer
manufactures of the South, and its bust
ness has developed into enormous pro-
interesting one. They go all over the
world to get the products which combin-
cd make a ton of fertilizer These pro-
ducts brought together from all parts
of the world are most carefully Analysed
and then formulated and compounded
on the most scientific principles known.
This company is noted for the special
brands it manufactures suitable for all
kinds of crops. such as cotton. tobacco,
grain and truck in all its varieties, the
effort being to supply any special crop
with that fertilizer which experience has
shown is the best suited for it. The
company is in possession Of thousands of
letters from the most prominent business
houses in the South and from farmers
i'll all sections, testifying to the high
standard of, and magnificent results OBJ
tanned from the use of their fertilizers;
and, as evidence Of this fact, today the
demand for their fertilizers is greater
than ever before.