The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-04-05
Inc Tricks OF the Trade and the Fer
.". tilizer Business.

the press from Columbia piece of
news about the amount of fertili.
1zers. beeng used by the farm ers of
TINS State, that ls calculated to mis-.
lead some of the farmers, and
others, hy lot telling the whole
truth about the increased sales of
FERTILIZER tags recently. Now, IT
seems that these fellows have not
told the public that this increase Of
sales OF tags d, ,es not Indicate that
more fertilizers are being used for
cotton, and that this Increase MAY
DO accounted for by change in the
law, requiring all cotton seed meal
to be tagged, whether it ! G used
for feeding or fertilizer.
Since the fertilizer companies
can redeem all tags not used, here
Is splendid opportunity for these
fellows to lend a helping hand to
their neighbors, tho "cotton bears"
by purchasing a large amount of
tags, which has its Weight in hold
my cotton down, This is educa
ton in this business.
1t was A. Il. Stewart the famous
dry goods merchant in New York:
that did in his early butiness have a
lot of fine coaches and we'll dressed
women to make regular business
of visiting his establishment daily
for the express purpose of demon
stratlng TO the fashionable people
that his place of business was the
place tor these people to trade.
Ihls was one MANS way of in.
creasing his trade; this is educa.
ton.
"A large farmer, in order to ad-
vertlse his success, standing and a
reputation as large planter, loads
20 or 80 bales or more cotton on u
; train OF wagons and will move them
about the streets Of his town q
whole day in order to show the
peoplo that lie has the "real stuff"
Inc difference is, that The farmer
or common merchant exhibits what
he has, while tho other two are
driving up something ma shady
way that they do not possess. This
is another kind ofLeducation.
Something over thirty Years ago
found lot Of old burnt nails and
, IRON III somo fertilizers that we
J.. were using.
! AS the stuff had cost over $50
= per ton, and [ did not believe onr
soil could "digesl" motallcs we
traced the thing back to the factory
where we found thom buying ashes
from all over the country and
towns to supply this ingredient in
this brand OF goods; while we far.
mers at home had not yet learned
that we were THROWN away our
ashes at home and buying them at
the rate of $50 per ton and freight
from Charleston.
This was paying hir h for educa.
ton On The business .>ide of farm.
ing.
How many farmers are there to- |
day that are lettiLg their wood
ashes 90 to waste OH the farm and
buying their equivale,. t in CONNER.
clal fertilizers at tho ,ate of $40 to
sl8 per ton2
One OF the most an .siDg cases of
educating the farmer on The ferti-
''zer subject, occurred only few
years ago, when by accident far. {
ner (who owned smoll flock of i
heep) discovered no'v nd then in b
lls guano a few litt' round balls a
hat had escaped the rr1,sher in the
actory. Now this faJ mnr consider.
q himself a good Judge of the =
ualltles If fertilizer and lnvari.
bly, would insist O., testing and
melting all goods oefore he was a
ltisfied about it's qualities. A Ii
tile investigation o. those, usually "
inform nodnles Ofpnano orOnsed Ia