Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-02-28
20 1aot 10ob voAr 1Real Mctber, Earth.

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HE oft repeated cry raised during
/ Id1 - the past decade, relative to the
i r1A MI kAA many advantages, aCcrUing to the
/ E5NghSN cultivating Of the soil, by fire.
i 121A1/9l " quent and liberal use Of cOmmer-
I aASA@ - cial fertilizers has been sung so Of
FIX seAtl~ ten, with telling effect that at first
| -U1G ass sight it seems almost fanaticious
/ E nv to continue repeating it, But as
r'@,AEfff-M~A Nj one occupied in It's makeup, con-
versant with it in every detail and the experience Of
life time in ts study and observation cannot refrain
reechong its praise, hoping the day will dawn
when every hill and valley in our land will stand
out living monument Of fertility, sufficient TO
convince even the most skeptica OF the great hene
4 fit derived through the wise and judicOus use Of
sHigh. Graden commercial fertilizers. Eh, What's
thatf Why do you want to use iti For the rea.
son my friend, every time yOn remove crop from
your land yon take with it some portion of the
strength and energy it contained virgin soil; in
other words yon deprving it Of it's natural stim
ulant the '1Available" plant food, in the form Of
Phosphoric Acid, Nitrogen, and Potash, without
which no plant can thrive and you have no right to
leave it thus. Why's Why sir, when you impOv-
crish your SOIL perhaps the only stock in trade you
possess, you depriving an important factor of
your family of the staff Of fe it's Bread and Meat y
Let me tell sou the constant replenishing Of the
plant food elements where they are continually be.
ing used up as necessary for the welfare OF the
soil as fooC and clothing is for your family. When
you rob your land Of it's "GOd given element You
are morally bound to make restitution. II you do
not it is physically unable to do the work OF
you may continue with your legaIized method Of
robbery with az much Importantly as an Insurance
President, or sWall st. Magnate, y its your own
but it won't last my friend. Already many OF you
are crying ont, wondering how it s your lands are
not as productive as they used to be; can't under.
stand, why they went produce as prolific as they
were wont to do.
i No Sir: you can't because yOu will not take the
trouble to 'sThink'' and ssReason." What have you
ever done to encourage generous resp0rcei ssN0th
ing so long as the store OF food placed there by
ture was abundant you were well satisfied, thinking
that your Wall St. method would continue forever.
| Now you are awakening to the fact that there is
something wrong, something waDting-tell yOn
what it is; yes sir will. Give back the food that
nature deemed 90 necessary, that food which your
crops have been feeding so literally, and yOn will
have no cause for further complaint, no uNprOdu-
tive soil to contend with.
How can yOu do iti BY timely and generous
application OF High Grade complete fertilizer, fer
liEers that contain without any particle OF dOn BIT
just the plant food your crops require in the proper
proportion, and every atom available, available
right now, the time you nee it.
| The man that tells yOu he would not use ii, is
blind to his own interest, yOu will never find man
denying the use Of fertilizers among the ranks Of
successful farmers, such an assertion would only
cmanate from person who hal never given 1t 3
fair trial, and therefore his opinion is worthless
| When yOu want to have good fat hogs you begin
to feed the pigs and it is mp to You my friend iD
like manner. II you wish to have and retain rich
soil ertilize IT, feed it with plant food That's the
only way You can get IT,
Were it deemed expedient to your welfare IL
would be no difficult task to place before y0u in
never failing figures the approximate quantities Of
plant food removed from your soil every time you
crop IL, showing yOu also ita equivalent value in
"D0llars and Cents, but the technical quality Of
the business s In better and abler hands than man.
In fact the State Chemists growing old and gray
In their efforts to teach yOu these matters with the
values Of fertilizers, and unless you get "mOven
on yourselves, they will be "bald as we'll before
some Cf yOu get your Diploma as Hrst class
farmers.
Eh, what's thatI a good fertilizer to uaef
Why man alive all fertilizers are good TO-
uHe, but some are better than others. Tell yOn
which are the best. Well sir, IL would i'll become
me, % deny the quality Ot any grade On the market
but say without any hesitation whatever that the
company have The honor 10 represent, turn out
High and Standard grade Fertilizer il condition,
both mechanically and physically equal II not super
iOr to eny other, know and have handled thou.
sandsOf different brands during the past twenty
N1~He1ooe~1~HN1H~e~~ ~~H11Ne~~~1~~etN1NoeDS q
Cott against American goods. The Chinese are u.
menting terrible hatred o. Americana and Ger.
mans which, slow 10 develop, will be- equally slow
to disappear. Chairman Hull, Of the military al.
fairs committee, iD presenting the army appr0pra-
tiOn bill the other day sounded warming against
our apathetic attitude He used strong terms id
depicting The danger OF insuficiet military prep.
aration for the coming outbreak With an this
Of opinion it hard to viewn the Oriental slt.
nation with entire equanimity.