The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-23
The Oasis Of Agriculture.

The oft repeated cry raised
Turing the past decade, relative
O the many advantages, accru-
NO to the cultivation Of the soil.
" q frequent and liberal use OF
commercial fertilizers has been
sung so often. with telling effect
that at first sight it seems almost
fanaticious to continue repeating
It; but as one occupied in its
up, conversant with it IN
every detail and the experience
Of life time in its study and OBJ
servation, cannot refrain re-echo-
it's praises, hoping the day
will soon dawn when every hill
and valley in our land will stand
out a living monument Of a fer
sufficient to convince even
the most skeptical of the great
benefit derived through the wise
and judicious use Of HIGH
commercial fertilizers.
En- whats that? Why do you
want to use it?. For the reason
my friend, everytime you remove
a crop from your land you take
with it some portion of the
strength and energy, it contain
ed as a virgin soil, in other words
you are depriving it of its natural
the Available" plant
in the form Of Phosphoric
Nitrogen and Potash, with
out which no plant can thrive and
you have no right to leave it thus.
Why? Why ssir, when you i'm
povish your soil, perhaps the on
" stock in trade you possess, you
are depriving an important fac
tor of your family of the staff Of
life, it's Bread and Meat" Let
tell you the constant replen-
ishing Of the plant food elements
where they are constantly being
used up, are as necessary to the
welfore of the soil as food and
for your family. When
you rob your land Of its God
given element" you are morally
to make restitution. If
you do not, it is physically unable
to do the work, ofcourse you may
with your legalized
method of robbery with as much
impunity as any Insurance Pres
ident," or a Wal Street Mag
nate, it's your own-but it won't
my friend. Already many
of you are crying out, wondering
it is your lands are not as
productive as they used to be.
understand, why they
produce as prolific as they
were want to do.
No Sir: you can't because you
will not take the trouble to
THINK" and Reason what
have you ever done to encourage
a generous response, MOTH
ING" so long as the store of food
placed there by nature was abun-
dant you are we'll satisfied, think
ing that your wall Street"
method will continue forever.
Now you are awakening to the
fact that there is something
wrong, something wanting-Tell
you what it is; Yes Sir, | will;
back the food that nature
so necessary, that food
on which your crops have been
feeding so literally, and you will
have no cause for further COM
plant, no unproductive soil to
contend with.
How can you do it? Bya timely
and generous application of High
Grade complete fertilizer, Ferti-
lizers that contain without any
particle of doubt just the plant
food your crops requiem the
proper propotion,-and every
atom available-available right
now, the time you need it.
The man that tells you that he
would not use it, is blind to his
own interest. You will never
find a man decrying the use of
fertilizers among the ranks of
successful farmers, such an as
sertion would only emanate from
a person who had never given it
a fair trial, and therefore his
opinion is worthless.
When you want to have good
fat hogs you begin to feed the
and it is up to you my
friend in like manner: If you
wish to have and retain rich soil
''Fertilize it" feed it with plant
that's the only way you can
get it.
Were it deemed expedient to
your welfare it would be no diff
matter to place before you
in never failing figures the ap-
quantities of plant food
removed from the soil every time
you crop it, showing you also its
equivalent value in Dollars and
Cents, but the technical quality
of the business is in better and
hands than mine, in fact
the State Chemists are growing
.'old and gray in their effort to
teach you these matters with the